Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 2 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 3 | Philip Miller 's appreciation was summed up in the Abridgement of 1754 , where he considered roses to have |
| 4 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 5 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 6 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 7 | The study was carried out in the West Berkshire and the Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities . |
| 8 | The volunteers fasted overnight , or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 9 | The volunteers fasted overnight or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 10 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 11 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 12 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 13 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 14 | The Southampton defender was caught up in the passion of Boro 's FA Cup-tie at Portsmouth last week . |
| 15 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 16 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 17 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 18 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 19 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 20 | The assay was carried out in the presence of 1 µl of pre-immune rabbit serum ( track 1 ) or 0.5 µl ( track 2 ) or 1 µl ( track 3 ) of polyclonal rabbit antibody to Oct-1 . |
| 21 | The committee was set up in the wake of the Cleveland child sex abuse inquiry to implement the National Health Service and Community Care Act . |
| 22 | According to the SD report itself , the main interest of the population in Hitler 's speech lay in his assessment of the military situation in the east , and the generalized response to the ‘ prophecy ’ passage was summed up in the single sentence quoted above . |
| 23 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
| 24 | Their campaign was taken up in the Commons by backbencher Michael Stephen . |
| 25 | Sutcliffe adds ( p. 149 ) : The girls ' collective perception of usage at home was summed up in the comment " plien [ plain ] English — and sometimes Jamaican' … |
| 26 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 27 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 28 | Niki had his way — in part — and the engine was tried out in the last four races of 1983 : with mixed results . |
| 29 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 30 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |