Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] out in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 8 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 9 | One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine . |
| 10 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 11 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 12 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 13 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 14 | Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest . |
| 15 | The long trestle tables were set out in the meadow and garden lights strung out in the trees , and soon the diners began to arrive . |
| 16 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 17 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 18 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 19 | Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November . |
| 20 | It was growing dusk ; stars were pricking out in the cold sky above them . |
| 21 | Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building . |
| 22 | More personal equity plans were taken out in the 12 months to April 1992 than in any other year since the PEP scheme was set up in 1987 . |
| 23 | If those paper debts were wiped out in the computer that prints your monthly statement , would it make any difference in real terms to anyone else ? |
| 24 | As the geneticists of the early twentieth century turned their backs on field studies and the role of adaptation , a very different group of biologists were striking out in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill . |
| 26 | Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 . |
| 27 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 28 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 29 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 30 | In 1849–51 an annual average of 191 agriculture patents were taken out in the United States ; in 1859–61 , 1,282 ; in 1869–71 , no less than 3,217 . |