Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the Phoenicians live infants were placed in the arms of a idol , and died in the flames burning inside it . |
| 2 | Instead , from now on all ‘ heroes ' deaths ’ were placed in the newspapers under a uniform heading at the top of the columns , reading : ‘ For Führer , People , and Reich gave their lives … ’ |
| 3 | Since then , Steve Mason , who did a Victor Kiam and bought the company himself , has masterminded a remarkable recovery job and such recent Top Ten singles as Nomad 's ‘ ( I Wan na Give You ) Devotion ’ and Kylie 's ‘ What Do I Have To Do ’ , were placed in the shops by Pinnacle . |
| 4 | His ashes were placed in the cloisters at New College , Oxford , where they are commemorated by a plaque recording him as ‘ Humanist & Boswellian Scholar ’ . |
| 5 | Other sections give appreciable protection to LCH with regard to collateral security in its hands : eg , s 175 removes from LCH the restrictions on enforcement of security which would otherwise apply , under the Insolvency Act 1986 , in the event that a defaulting member 's affairs were placed in the hands of an administrator ; and s 177 allows collateral lodged with LCH to be realised and applied notwithstanding a prior equitable interest or right of which LCH did not have notice at the time the collateral was received . |
| 6 | A typical example of this was the subject of Saltman Engineering Co v Campbell Engineering Co ( 1963 ) 65 RPC 203 where drawings of tools for the manufacture of leather punches were placed in the hands of subcontractors for the purpose of manufacturing the tools for one of the plaintiffs . |
| 7 | A number of barges were hidden in the trees along the lakeside and Mandeville and Santerre ordered these to be brought together . |
| 8 | That coins were minted in the names of bishops and churches is clear , but it is not certain that they mark an encroachment into a royal preserve . |
| 9 | Equally exciting has been the finding of large numbers of discarded carved and painted stones from Jocelyn 's church , which were re-used in the foundations of the elongated crypt built by Bishop Bondington in the mid 13th century . |
| 10 | These two developments were fused in the actions of the Non-Aligned as a group and Vietnam separately towards a settlement of the tensions and hostilities in Indo-China . |
| 11 | On the weekend of April 18-19 over 40 deaths , apparently of local people , were reported in the villages of Birik , Kuziriv , Cizre and Tepel near the town of Bismil — prompting thousands of people to rally in protest in Diyarbakir in the following week . |
| 12 | The High Elves were caught in the jaws of a trap , fighting a war on two fronts against two powerful foes . |
| 13 | The bickerings were forgotten in the scenes of wild excitement that greeted the Cup in Huddersfield . |
| 14 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 15 | A contract is an international supply contract if three conditions are satisfied : ( a ) it is a contract for the sale of goods or it is one under , or in pursuance of which , possession or ownership of goods passes ; and ( b ) it is made by parties whose places of business ( or habitual residence , if they have no place of business ) are in the territories of different states ; and ( c ) either ( i ) at the time the contract is made , the goods are in the course of carriage , or will be carried , between the territories of two states ; or ( ii ) the acts constituting offer and acceptance were done in the territories of different states ; or ( iii ) the contract provides for the goods to be moved to the territory of a state other than that in which the offer and acceptance took place . |
| 16 | Both were sited in the grounds of a hospital with a radiology department so each had open and immediate access to radiographic examination . |
| 17 | All his suits were hung in the wardrobes in covers . |
| 18 | ‘ And the times for you getting down to London for the attack on Oliver , if you include the times you — or whoever — were seen in the toilets at Tottenham Court Road , are looking very tight ; there was a delay on all the flights from Edinburgh into Heathrow that day … makes it impossible , really . ’ |
| 19 | On the test session , subjects in one group continued with this same arrangement but for subjects in the critical experimental condition the stimuli were presented in the contexts in which they had not previously occurred . |
| 20 | Even the schools were built in the corners of crowded burial grounds , or over public sewers into which they slowly sank . |
| 21 | Her new taxes — which included £60,000 Scots ( £10,000 sterling ) for her daughter 's marriage — were collected in the teeth of considerable hostility . |
| 22 | Twenty thousand women had their tests rechecked when it was disclosed mistakes were made in the labs at Inverclyde Hospital in Greenock over a five year period . |
| 23 | They were used in the foundations of a fifth-century building raised by the citizens of Sicyon ; one of the little ‘ Treasuries ’ which crowded the site ( below , pp. 40ff . ) . |
| 24 | For instance , the predicates clear and ’ ’ were used in the conditions for the operations in the blocks world , but adding them did not extend the descriptive power of the language . |
| 25 | Long before Christ , dogs were used in the amphitheatres of Rome for fighting large cats ( there were usually three dogs pitted against one lion ) . |
| 26 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 27 | With their low capital ratios ( ie , equity as a proportion of assets ) , Japanese banks were accused in the mid-1980s of unfair competition for international clients . |
| 28 | This was the situation when we returned to Scotland in the late seventies with Venturous and were called upon by our liaison officer at Aberdeen to patrol round the west coast principally to assist local staff in the control of a large fleet of Eastern Bloc ships which were anchored in the approaches to Ullapool . |
| 29 | These attitudes were reflected in the arrangements for famine relief in Tsaritsyn guberniia , to which we will now turn , since our attention has been directed so far on Saratov and Samara gubernii to the north of it . |
| 30 | If that journalist had attempted to inspect any files relating to Crabb 's ‘ accident ’ he would either be told that no such files existed or , if they did , were classified in the interests of national security . |