Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 2 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 3 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 4 | These producers were carried out in a darkened room . |
| 5 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 6 | Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building . |
| 7 | Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest . |
| 8 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 9 | Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 . |
| 10 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 11 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 12 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 13 | Elderly people were caught up in a political , financial and staffing web in which services were run according to the needs of service providers , Harbert told the conference . |
| 14 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 15 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 16 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 17 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 18 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 19 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 20 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 21 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 22 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 23 | More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years . |
| 24 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 25 | At the same time the ethical requirements were spelt out in the Ten Commandments and other laws . |
| 26 | His passengers were filing out in a dazed little procession . |
| 27 | Stewart slipped on the wicketkeeping gloves when Russell took a day 's sick leave with a stomach upset , and the final three sessions were played out in the usual no-prospects eeriness , which was heightened by the horrors of the evening before . |
| 28 | He took his senior men aside at lunchtime for a tour d'horizon on ‘ the wider implications of the project for European unity , and when the Cabinet resumed matters of cost and technical detail which had caused objections that morning were swallowed up in the wider prime ministerial perspective ’ . |
| 29 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 30 | PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks . |