Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 2 | The deficit reduction targets outlined in April 1989 [ see above ] were revised upwards in the budget to account for higher interest payments . |
| 3 | The thirty-seven canal companies who in 1825 were barely meeting their expenses were situated mostly in the south , in which region most of the unwise ventures of the boom period were concentrated . |
| 4 | While the principles for a Catholic ecumenism were formulated principally in the decree specifically devoted to this , all the other main documents of the Council — most notably the two dogmatic constitutions and the Declaration on Religious Freedom — were profoundly affected by this concern . |
| 5 | Two ministers were dismissed later in the year for criticizing government actions : the Information and Broadcasting Minister , Waruru Kanja , in April ( replaced by Nahashion Kanyi ) , and the Agriculture Minister Maina Wanjigi , in June ( replaced by Elijah Mwangale ) . |
| 6 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 7 | However , one must realise that religion , law , rule and learning were fused together in the consciousness of the eighth and ninth centuries . |
| 8 | Our economy has a substantial financial services sector , which would be greatly disadvantaged if the central bank were located anywhere in the Community other than in this country and in London . |
| 9 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 10 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 11 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 12 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 13 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 14 | One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine . |
| 15 | It will be remembered that hydrogen , having given way to the use of coal gas from 1821 , although still being utilised when effective pressurised containers were designed later in the century , regained popularity with 20th Century airships . |
| 16 | Large roosts were reported elsewhere in the county , but Abbey Park remained a pleasant place . |
| 17 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 18 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 19 | All patients had normal serum concentrations of liver enzymes and bilirubin and were included consecutively in the study . |
| 20 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 21 | How many , I wonder , were caught up in the looting frenzy themselves and are now attempting to make amends ? |
| 22 | Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement . |
| 23 | It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 . |
| 24 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 25 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 26 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 27 | Members of the Royal Marines orchestra , including some bandsmen who were caught up in the bombing , played during the hour-long service . |
| 28 | Clearly the abundances of these materials at the surface exceeds those of the Moon as a whole and this could either be because of upward differentiation or because such materials were added late in the formation of the Moon . |
| 29 | The key recommendations of this White paper were summarized briefly in the introduction . |
| 30 | However , it also included periods when , although on duty , they were committed elsewhere in the department . |