Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] in [art] [noun] " 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 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 3 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The deficit reduction targets outlined in April 1989 [ see above ] were revised upwards in the budget to account for higher interest payments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 12 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 13 | There is some evidence that the coefficients on expected returns were biased downwards in the OLS equation . |
| 14 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |
| 15 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 16 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 17 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 18 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 19 | However , one must realise that religion , law , rule and learning were fused together in the consciousness of the eighth and ninth centuries . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | CABBIES earning big tips helping to ferry stolen property away from break-ins were targeted yesterday in a series of police raids . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 24 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 25 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 26 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 27 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 28 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 29 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 30 | 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 . |