Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These producers were carried out in a darkened room . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 7 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years . |
| 17 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 18 | His passengers were filing out in a dazed little procession . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 21 | PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks . |
| 22 | Looking at it and the bleak shore of Flotta beyond , the memories came flooding back : pink gins before Sunday lunch at twopence a throw ; dressing up as Tartars and Eskimos and Bedouins for Tribal parties ; cinema shows where the reels were laced up in the wrong order ; darts competitions in the wardroom flat ; early winter morning torpedo firings in the Flow , very dark and cold ; walks to Longhope for fresh eggs , or fishing for sea-trout in the bay ; piping the admiral as we passed the headquarters ship and eased our way down to Switha Gate bound for distant waters , the captain on the compass platform with cap at an angle , elbows on hips and gloved hands turned upwards , Spider beside him puffing smoke through a black holder and advising courses to steer ; and then , as the ship adjusted herself to the roll and rhythm of the sea , a last flashing message from the signal station at Hoxa Head ( now vandalized and abandoned ) , as it would be the first on our return , days or weeks later . |
| 23 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 24 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 25 | A cynic among us suggested the people were brought out in the early morning for the tourists to snap their unlikely habitat . |
| 26 | And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there . |
| 27 | By scrawling with his crook in the dust , the shepherd redirected us and by nightfall we were holed up in a cosy bar . |
| 28 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 29 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 30 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |