Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 2 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 3 | The Arches were subsequently cleared of infestation and the public were allowed in to view the prehistoric relics . |
| 4 | And there you see again in early B R days , er the er the station master 's house , and er er and the station itself , over here , the goods shed over there , the various track works coming across , the er line up to round here , and as I say the various sidings that were put in to accommodate the additional er colliery and other traffic . |
| 5 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 6 | Sometimes the sheriff , that medieval ‘ maid-of-all-work ’ , was called in to restrain the oppressive conduct of the Forest wardens . |
| 7 | At Moss Green , GIST was called in to address the second-year class before they made craft mini-options , to stress how important it was for girls to consider getting a grounding in technology . |
| 8 | Marxist , Plekhanov , was brought in to defend the traditional position of the Polish Socialist Party against this impertinent young woman , Rosa Luxemburg ( in Vorwärts , 23 July 1896 ) . |
| 9 | When a purpose-designed cap was brought in to replace the humble condom , it was reported that the mine-laying frogmen were less than happy , having regarded the prior item as something of a ‘ perk ’ of the job . |
| 10 | Most of us probably think that the dole is what you live on when you 're unemployed , a statutory right which was brought in to bury the hated means test of the 1930s However , when the modern national insurance system was introduced in 1948 unemployment benefit was still not expected to be sufficient to maintain a wageless man with wife and children ; it was an arbitrary figure which could be topped up . |