Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 2 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 3 | The problem is that Reich only took half of Freud 's theory , and ignored the role of the death instincts which were developed in the later theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 4 | Several underground and opencast fluorspar deposits ( with associated baryte and galena ) were developed in the Northern Pennine ( Weardale mines ) and the Southern Pennine ( Sallet Hole and Long Rake mines ) orefields . |
| 5 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 6 | About the same date [ 1834 ] a range of Loose Boxes and Stalls were erected in the Lower Paddock near to the Ditch . |
| 7 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 8 | The fifteenth century saw the final phase of Gothic architecture in France , when many richly ornamented buildings were erected in the flamboyant style . |
| 9 | For example , in one strip the picture of the sun shining came first ( i.e. , on the left ) , and the picture of the snowman melting came second , whereas in the other strip the pictures were arranged in the opposite order . |
| 10 | The fateful evening came and the bottles were arranged in the Public Office on the counter , the beer stacked on the floor , the spirits higher , behind the Junior . |
| 11 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 12 | Although some of the former have been reclassified today , it is interesting to see what were listed in the mid-eighteenth century : Rosa canina , spinosissima , villosa , eglanteria , scotica , inermis , hispanica , scandens , sempervirens , virginiana , lutea , punicea , moschata , centifolia , damascena , alba , belgica , provincialis , incarnata , gallica , cinnamomea and muscosa . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , he saw no reason to delay other measures in the package : ‘ We have , after all , made extraordinary progress in the four years since these proposals were listed in the White Paper as part of the programme required for the Single Market . |
| 14 | As officers were to acknowledge in the formal consultation document on closure in 1986 , community mental health services were not all in place in the Riverside District , but the underlying objective of the strategy , to release resources to fund community service developments , had been achieved . |
| 15 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 16 | Occasional springtime dust storms in the Fens are even invoked as an ominous example , although these are caused by the drying out of the peat soils and have occurred since the Fens were drained in the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | On the home front the major Little Britain project for Wimpey Property Holdings and the Criterion project at Piccadilly Circus were completed in the early part of the year , with the £7 million Astra Pharmaceuticals Project at Corby , Northants handed over at the year end . |
| 18 | The interiors were redesigned in the neo-Baroque style in 1896 by the versatile J. Schulz . |
| 19 | These were placed in the upper course , tributary valleys where the steep gradients of the rivers made it easy to divert the water for only short distances to allow a sufficient fall to drive the water wheels . |
| 20 | In a recent study ( Kloska and Ramasut 1985 ) sources of stress were placed in the following order by teachers : |
| 21 | Advertisements were placed in the International Herald Tribune , the Washington Post and the New York Times at the end of January , purporting to announce that several well-known figures were withdrawing their support from a campaign backed by the human rights organization Amnesty International for the release from prison of Mohammed al-Fassi . |
| 22 | The Ford Island scenes were mainly those of destruction of the PBYs , which were placed in the exact position of the those PBYs lost in the actual attack . |
| 23 | Large advertisements were placed in the local press appealing to members to ‘ roll up in your thousands … and vote ‘ Cooperation for Cooperators ’ . |
| 24 | They were placed in the wooden rack to mature and acquire a skin or rind . |
| 25 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 26 | Counting was slow due to the complex voting system and to the fact that separate voting papers for the three abortion referendums [ see below ] were placed in the same ballot boxes . |
| 27 | An adequate explanation must both make clear what an action means to the participants , and how far the same outcome would result if different people were placed in the same context . |
| 28 | Cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh were placed in the same sort of category as non-metropolitan districts in England although they had populations larger than the more rural regions and all the island councils . |
| 29 | Sculptural panels illustrating ‘ Engineering ’ , ‘ Agriculture ’ , ‘ Commerce ’ , ‘ Science ’ , and ‘ Trade ’ were set into the gables , and cameo busts of the directors of the company were placed in the main façade . |
| 30 | There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) . |