Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 2 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 3 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 4 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 5 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 6 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 7 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 8 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 10 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 11 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 12 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 13 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 14 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 15 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 16 | Haider , in office since 1989 [ see pp. 37688 ; 36596 ] , had caused a furore by declaring on June 13 during a Landtag ( provincial parliament ) debate that " an orderly employment policy was carried out in the Third Reich , which the government in Vienna can not manage " . |
| 17 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
| 18 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 19 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 20 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
| 21 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 22 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 23 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 24 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 25 | The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius |
| 26 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 27 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 28 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 29 | an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil … |
| 30 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |