Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , low turnouts were reported in the predominantly Russian Vilnius suburb of Novaya Vilnya , and in the predominantly Polish rural district of Salcininkai . |
| 2 | In relation to this , a number of cohesive chains were identified in the analysis , the most significant of which are the progressions of phrases relating to the cabinet ministers and the soldiers . |
| 3 | The San Salvador Central Market occupation lasted for 12 days , from 11 to 23 December 1979 , and a number of hostages from among the administrative personnel were held in the offices . |
| 4 | And itself has been a victim of that poor quality when private contracts were employed in the domestic service . |
| 5 | Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign . |
| 6 | Initially , lizards with intact tails were paired in the laboratory in order to determine dominance relationships . |
| 7 | There was a murmur of assent and the wise , strange heads were dipped in the gesture of acknowledgement they had used earlier and the Tree Spirits moved away , not quite fading into the gloom of the forest , but somehow becoming one with it . |
| 8 | After this riot , which involved 100,000 people , political processions were banned in the Metropolitan Police area for six months . |
| 9 | However , no finds of this type are known from Chedworth , although a number of agricultural implements were found in the excavations , including a plough-tip ; some other tools such as the spade-iron and mattock could have been used for gardening . |
| 10 | A separate multivariate analysis of diabetics was not reported but , using standardised logistic regression coefficients for incidence of coronary heart disease , strong relationships were demonstrated in the whole group , as shown in Table 4.3 . |
| 11 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 12 | Three stolen cars were used in the raids . |
| 13 | Significantly more retrospective entries were made in the evening ( 26 entries , 14 patients ) than in the morning ( 6 entries , 3 patients ) . |
| 14 | Large public meetings were called in the main county towns to test reaction : CEGB speakers were given a consistently hard time . |
| 15 | The detailed proposals were noted in the introduction . |
| 16 | The flaw in his Near Eastern policy arose not from its objectives , which were peaceable , but from the secrecy with which all foreign policies were conducted in the nineteenth century and which often prevented the Great Powers from understanding each other . |
| 17 | Eight different nations were represented in the points-scoring first 15 compared with nine the previous day . |
| 18 | A further 36,000 teenage pregnancies were aborted in the same year ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Eight more towing cars were rebuilt in the workshops , and 275 was so equipped , making ten twin-cars . |
| 20 | The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949 . |
| 21 | But there was no anger in Cat 's voice ; his bright , clear eyes were focusing in the distance , seeing eternal Peace and Joy . |
| 22 | There is also a record of a Spanish ship carrying cloth out of Bristol in the 1460s , and it may not have been untypical , although undoubtedly English vessels were engaged in the Iberian trade . |
| 23 | Cross-party anti-Tory candidates were seen in the Munich by-election before the war , and constantly during the war . |
| 24 | In nineteen forty three wooden soled , wedge heeled shoes were introduced in the utility range and the Lady magazine gave hints on how to walk in them . |
| 25 | The High Elves were caught in the jaws of a trap , fighting a war on two fronts against two powerful foes . |
| 26 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 27 | In this case different strains were found in the family members . |
| 28 | In the town centre , almost all the medieval buildings were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1675 . |
| 29 | These social workers were based in the borough 's Special Services Team . |
| 30 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |