Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 2 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 3 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 4 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 5 | There is some evidence that the coefficients on expected returns were biased downwards in the OLS equation . |
| 6 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 7 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 8 | Other disturbances , widely regarded as ‘ copycat ’ , were reported elsewhere in the West Midlands , for example in Moseley , Wolverhampton , and Coventry , and in the St Paul 's district of Bristol . |
| 9 | Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse . |
| 10 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 11 | In this study , pathological examination of the necropsy specimens showed that amyloid deposits in the myenteric plexuses were seen only in the AA cases . |
| 12 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 13 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 14 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 15 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 16 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |
| 17 | In 1849–51 an annual average of 191 agriculture patents were taken out in the United States ; in 1859–61 , 1,282 ; in 1869–71 , no less than 3,217 . |
| 18 | When British Telecom was privatised , shares were issued both in the US and the UK ( and other jurisdictions ) . |
| 19 | This is the carbohydrate stodge we were warned about in the Kylie article . |
| 20 | Military forces were deployed mainly in the Jordan valley along the new frontier with Jordan , while the Arabic-speaking and mainly Druze Border Guards and the plain clothes General Security Service ( Shin Bet ) exercised control over the population through a large network of informers . |
| 21 | Some of the words of Ms Galron 's song , which explores the theme of guilt and responsibility for the uprising while Tel Aviv makes merry , were read out in the Knesset yesterday in the course of a stormy debate marking the second anniversary of the intifada . |
| 22 | Pelham 's experience in trade was recognized speedily in the Commons , for on 7 June 1641 he was named to the committee to regulate trade with Scotland . |
| 23 | Finally , in April , 1988 , an agenda for withdrawal - many would say retreat - was drawn up in the Geneva accords : all 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be pulled out by February 15 , 1989 . |
| 24 | The withdrawal was raised twice in the Dail ( lower house of parliament ) on May 21 , but ministers denied any involvement in the affair . |
| 25 | Eventually , Haverford was driven back in the Metro the Harrisons had left at Fosdyke 's disposal . |
| 26 | Yesterday , a ‘ cop shop ’ was set up in the Strand . |
| 27 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 28 | After a campaign by councillors , a registration scheme was set up in the Cheyney Road , Garden Lane and Ermine Road areas of the city . |
| 29 | At first the ideas appeared as rumours and reports : that , although it had not yet been announced , the US had already taken steps to halt the fighting ; that , in Washington , ambassador Bonnet had been called in and told that a settlement was imperative ; that if the matter was brought up in the UN the US would not necessarily support France ; that the US wished to ensure that no Lend-Lease weapons were being used ‘ to suppress Vietnam — although it was suspected they were ; and that the head of Southeast Asian Affairs at the State Department ( Mr A.L. |
| 30 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |