Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Somoza period , most educational facilities and investment were concentrated in the urban areas , where the rate of illiteracy was given as 28 per cent compared with about 76 per cent in rural areas . |
| 2 | The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 3 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 4 | A gold watch and a purse were found in the dead man 's pockets , but no cards or papers — except a letter addressed to Mr Utterson . |
| 5 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 6 | L 379 , p. 1 ) , according to which the levying of any customs duty or charge having equivalent effect and the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having equivalent effect were prohibited in the internal trade of the Community ; ( c ) article 8(1) of that Regulation , which , as regards the payment of an indemnity to producers who were not members of a producers ' organisation , provided that such an indemnity was to be granted without discrimination as to the nationality or place of establishment of the recipients ; ( d ) article 27(2) of that Regulation , which laid down for all fishing vessels flying the flag of one of the member states the principle of equal access to ports and first-stage marketing installations in the other member states ; ( e ) article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , which authorised the member states to determine the detailed rules for the utilisation of the quotas allocated to them , in accordance with the applicable Community provisions ; and ( f ) article 13(2) of Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3094/86 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources ( Official Journal 1986 No . |
| 7 | Candidates closely identified with the President were defeated in the important states of Rio Grande do Sul and Parana , and in particular in the key state of Sao Paulo , responsible for 50 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 8 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 9 | In the normal subjects ( Fig 2A ) , the APGPR concentrations in urine increased after the test meal and again two peak mean values of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours at 45 and 75 minutes after the start of the meal corresponding in time with the peaks of serum APGPR found in the normal subjects . |
| 10 | Readers of this paper will need no reminding of the way in which the important recommendations of the Warnock committee were encapsulated in the 1981 Act but accompanied by a clear negative statement : ‘ There will be no additional funds ’ . |
| 11 | If the British proportion were increased in the 1990s then this would only have the effect of bringing Britain into line with her industrial competitors and , presumably , investing for the future . |
| 12 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 13 | Mr Ward said his town 's courthouse and city hall were razed in the 1960s to make way for modern buildings . |
| 14 | ‘ The Department of Health report also showed that milk was a major contributor of calcium , thiamin , riboflavin and vitamins , and that differences in milk consumption were reflected in the falling intakes of these nutrients in lower income families . |
| 15 | The last recession budgets of this type were seen in the 1974–75 slump . |
| 16 | Some 350 articles of equipment were carried in the 12 heavy tools vans which ran in the trains containing the steam cranes , and some of this equipment was so heavy as to need the use of demountable jib gallows with a frame at each double door to get it in and out of the van . |
| 17 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 18 | We also showed that all three X-box binding activities exhibited the same chromatographic mobility when analyzed by heparin-Sepharose chromatography ; in fact , overlapping elution profile were obtained in the three cases ( Fig. 4A ) . |
| 19 | In Mulligan [ 1990 ] STC 220 ( CA ) stolen Inland Revenue Certificates about payment of tax were found in the accused 's sock . |
| 20 | When the founding treaties of the Community were signed in the 1950s , emphasis was laid on the necessity for competition and free market forces , especially in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 21 | A businessman whose brother and nephew were killed in the American raid on Baghdad has criticised the Government for defending the action . |
| 22 | Such large volumes of water were released in the New Year that the old road bridge by the campsite has now been washed away and there is now a debris problem on the river bed . |
| 23 | In Scotland , stations like Aboyne and Dundee Caledonian Station were built in the distinctive Scottish baronial style . |
| 24 | The cells of the station were removed in the 1950s and the building is now a private house . |
| 25 | Twin barrel-vault roofs formed from Broderick Structures ' Brodseam were used in the new Imperium building in Reading , by Bennetts Associates ( RIBA Journal July ) . |
| 26 | By 1983 almost all the major areas of the Polytechnic were represented in the modular programme , and the number of students on the modular programme was by now greater than the total numbers of students in some colleges . |
| 27 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 28 | In a recent study ( Kloska and Ramasut 1985 ) sources of stress were placed in the following order by teachers : |
| 29 | Minute dumb-bell-shaped pieces of metal were embedded in the two sides of the neural folds of an amphibian embryo and a magnetic field applied to prevent the folds coming together . |
| 30 | The following secondary antisera were used in the indirect techniques : peroxidase conjugated swine antirabbit immunoglobulin ( dilution 1:50 , Dako , High Wycombe , UK ) , peroxidase conjugated swine antisheep immunoglobulins ( dilution 1:100 , Serotec , Oxford , UK ) and peroxidase conjugated rabbit anti mouse immunoglobulins ( dilution 1:50 , Dako ) . |