Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] were [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That coins were minted in the names of bishops and churches is clear , but it is not certain that they mark an encroachment into a royal preserve . |
| 2 | Some minutes were occupied in the buying of a ticket . |
| 3 | Some advances were recorded in the colonial world , but the most promising revolutionary movement , in China , was bloodily suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 . |
| 4 | The head waiter came towards them , and Anthony gave another name , not his , and they were ushered to a table in the window , overlooking the terrasse where a few customers were sitting in the open , a glass or two in front of them in the freshening air . |
| 5 | Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us . |
| 6 | In the twentieth century the focus of government policy shifted from the judiciary to the police , and few changes were made in the structure or procedure of the courts . |
| 7 | Outside some drunks were shouting in the street . |
| 8 | Some cereals were grown in the south but around Tregarron rape was the only non-grass crop grown . |
| 9 | The band on the screen were playing See You Later Alligator , and some couples were jiving in the aisles . |
| 10 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 11 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 12 | Such machines were superseded in the late 1950's by so-called ‘ second generation ’ computers , utilising transistors for their operation . |
| 13 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 14 | Various such measures were enacted in the years prior to 1867 , though the most notable were to be enacted in the remaining decades of the century . |
| 15 | Such measures were included in the December 1991 Maastricht draft treaty . |
| 16 | Such assertions were developed in the 1970s into an onslaught on the theory of ‘ equidistance between the blocs ’ . |
| 17 | Often such valuables were hidden in the ground , sometimes contained in a bag , wooden chest or pot . |
| 18 | For the areas in our study there was a high degree of completeness of ascertainment from 1968 onwards for children aged 0–14 because these areas are included in the data collected prospectively for the Northern Region Children 's Malignant Disease Registry and all these cases were included in the National Registry of Childhood Tumours . |
| 19 | These attitudes were reflected in the arrangements for famine relief in Tsaritsyn guberniia , to which we will now turn , since our attention has been directed so far on Saratov and Samara gubernii to the north of it . |
| 20 | These foundations were laid in the deprived urban areas of the community-smack in the middle of Wirral . |
| 21 | These proposals were incorporated in the Rent Act 1957 . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , he saw no reason to delay other measures in the package : ‘ We have , after all , made extraordinary progress in the four years since these proposals were listed in the White Paper as part of the programme required for the Single Market . |
| 23 | These proposals were embodied in the NEC ‘ Action Programme ’ of 1973 , and then also in the party manifesto of February . |
| 24 | These proposals were enshrined in the 1988 Local Government Finance Act . |
| 25 | Most of these reserves were held in the Eurodollar market , which meant that rather than deposit them in New York the central banks of the oil producers deposited them in banks outside the United States . |
| 26 | These formulations were grounded in the early hydraulic model of the circulation of energy derived from fluid mechanics ; the body possessed only a fixed quantity of semen , once expended it was lost forever . |
| 27 | Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names . |
| 28 | These gatherings were held in the Church Institute and I did occasionally worry about the language . |
| 29 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 30 | Most of these criticisms were made in the 1960s and 1970s . |