Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 2 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 3 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 4 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 5 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 6 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 7 | Stewart slipped on the wicketkeeping gloves when Russell took a day 's sick leave with a stomach upset , and the final three sessions were played out in the usual no-prospects eeriness , which was heightened by the horrors of the evening before . |
| 8 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 9 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 10 | In South-west England block and basin limestones and shales and spilitic basic volcanics were laid down in an extensional basin developed at the western end of the Rheno-Hercynian zone . |
| 11 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 12 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 13 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 14 | The calculations that describe how the chemical elements were cooked up in the turmoil of creation say that there were three types of neutrino around to help things on their way . |
| 15 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 16 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 17 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 18 | While you lovely nouveau beatniks , Eton-cropped dancers , workwear groovers and full-effect ravers were holed up in a handful of chosen niteries , these suburban salopes , these soft sixth-form crusties were out everywhere , going forth nationwide and multiplying . |
| 19 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 20 | Mr Christie claimed that though the Dutch and Belgian governments contributed to save sections of Leyland-DAF in their own countries , the British plants were left out in the cold after our government refused to participate in the rescue . |
| 21 | The knees of the Doctor 's trousers were scorched off in an instant . |
| 22 | The grey trousers were put on in the month of March last and the white waistcoats in May . ’ |
| 23 | Unable to get a drink , the workers were standing around in the street listening to pacifist orators . |
| 24 | He looked as if he was lit from below , and his nose and cheeks were spread out in a white , lifeless slab against the window pane . |
| 25 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 26 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 27 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 28 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 29 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 30 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |