Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 2 | Those units were joined in the latter part of the 1980s in a rationalisation plan . |
| 3 | A further 36,000 teenage pregnancies were aborted in the same year ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
| 5 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 6 | Most of the ex-municipal cars were accommodated in the former part , but Walthamstow and the three companies were given numbers in the 20005 above the highest L.C.C . |
| 7 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 8 | Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein . |
| 9 | As the Zechstein progressed , the thickest part of each successive lens developed further into the basin and the facies belts were displaced in the same direction ( Figs. 3 and 4 ) . |
| 10 | To the extent that spiritual and temporal functions were united in the same house , by the same blood , the union would be doubly consecrated , doubly sanctified , and the unity of the nation all the more hallowed . |
| 11 | Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously . |
| 12 | This indicates that the two denominations were minted in the same part of his reign . |
| 13 | In the realm of high culture , T. S. Eliot 's writings were drenched in the same anxieties . |
| 14 | In other words , two homologous structures were formed in the same way in two closely-related groups , though their development diverged , in the course of evolution , to adapt the structure for two different lifestyles . |
| 15 | Paired studies were measured in the same assay runs . |
| 16 | Now I mentioned that three and a half thousand trees were planted in the same area last year was n't it ? |
| 17 | The departments were co-located in the same building , and , as it was felt that their roles were similar and some economy of scale would be achieved in terms of staffing , equipment , and accommodation , a Central Services Support Unit ( CSSU ) had been established . |
| 18 | Mucosal oxyntic biopsy specimens were taken from the same defined area and tissues were processed in the same way as in the present study . |
| 19 | His original mind and interests in music , linguistics and the human voice led him to study the problems of deaf education and to invent " The New Sign Language , " in which every sign was a pantomimic version of the spoken word and in which signs were made in the same order and in the same sequel as the words of normal speech . |
| 20 | A possible explanation might be that coins were used in the same way as in Italy but by fewer people , namely only those in urban settlements . |
| 21 | Permanent official contacts were established in the same month with the Soviet Union and a Soviet ambassador to the Vatican was appointed . |
| 22 | In early computers , as mentioned above , input/output ( or transput ) operations were treated in the same way as internal operations ( such as addition ) ; once the operation had been started , the control unit awaited its completion , before continuing with the extraction , decoding , and execution of the next instruction . |
| 23 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 24 | The organization of the Council , borrowed from that of the universities , was by ‘ nations ’ ( principally in order to restrict the voting powers of the large number of Italians ) , but the French objected to the English existing as a separate nation from the Germans — significantly in the Arts Faculty at the University of Paris the English and the Germans were included in the same one . |
| 25 | It was labelled as such by a London coroner recently , after four inquests on suicides were heard in the same court within a week . |
| 26 | A week ago he was successful … 13 baby boas were produced in the same litter , 12 of them survived . |
| 27 | The organisation of the cohort of homosexual men was the same as for the cohort of drug users , and all serological and immunological tests were performed in the same laboratories . |
| 28 | While the arrow diameter of 5.5mm remains a first choice , since so many long established and successful aerobatic kites have been designed around it , two larger sizes were introduced in the same unidirectional carbon tubing . |
| 29 | The two men were born in the same region , the Transkei , but whereas Mr Mandela was a distinguished personage of royal blood , Mr Sisulu came from an impoverished peasant family and engaged in politics as a consequence of his exposure to the daily indignities of life for blacks through his work in a dairy , a bakery , in mines and factories . |
| 30 | But presumably men were comforted in the same way , so why are they , unlike women , unable to pass it on ? |