Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOLFER Paul Hurring and his sweetheart Charlotte Turtle , who died in each other 's arms in a freak accident , were buried yesterday in the same grave . |
| 2 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 3 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 4 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 5 | Raine refused to speak to Diana 's mother in church even though they were seated together in the same pew . |
| 6 | The reason for the rule was explained further in the same year in Rex v. St. John 's College , Cambridge ( 1694 ) 4 Mod.Rep. 233 , 241 : |
| 7 | The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced . |
| 8 | Instead the BDDA was founded later in the same year to advance and protect their interests in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | The question of radio reception was raised later in the same debate by the then Minister of State , Mr Masiye , who gave reasons for poor reception . |
| 10 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 11 | The four-month voyage back to England via the South pacific and Cape Horn was spent much in the same way as the outward voyage . |
| 12 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 13 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |
| 14 | The split between Meciar 's Platform for a Democratic Slovakia and PAV was formalized later in the same month . |
| 15 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |