Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 2 | It was illustrated in a 15th century manuscript , and Gerard referred to it as being useful for preserving the eyesight ; Culpeper advised its use for those " that are bit with serpents or have eat … mushrooms " . |
| 3 | It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime . |
| 4 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |
| 5 | It was killed in the second one as well . |
| 6 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |
| 7 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 8 | It was for many years claimed to be the earliest example of the true arch in Europe , but it is now recognised that it was constructed in the sixth century as an open drain and that it was only roofed over with its present stone vault of three concentric rings of radiating voussoirs in 184 B.C. Its exit into the Tiber can still be seen in Rome near the Ponte Rotto ( 68 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It was begun in the thirteenth century and there 's a famous inscription above the door . ’ |
| 10 | It was developed in the eighteenth century by writers like Hume , Mandeville and Smith and applied by Darwin in the field of biology in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years . |
| 12 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
| 13 | It was made in the 15th century and meant to keep holy relics but , at its feet , newly married couples used to promise each other eternal love and fidelity . |
| 14 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ The French school of Rocque ’ ( as it was called in the nineteenth century ) earned an outstanding reputation in Irish cartography , but his chief memorials are his county maps and , above all , his plans of London and Dublin . |
| 16 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 17 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 18 | You may wonder how this rather high-falutin' talk of vector spaces is related to the simpler language of wave mechanics as it was presented in the last chapter . |
| 19 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 20 | It was built in the 12th century ( 1150 ) . |
| 21 | The castle of Oliveto , about 10 minutes by car from Castelfiorentino , has led a full and varied life since it was built in the 15th century . |
| 22 | It was built in the seventh century and after several restorations was finally reconstructed in 1008 . |
| 23 | It was built in the fifteenth century and the paintings date from c. 1520 ; it is a very fine example indeed . |
| 24 | S. Stephen 's Cathedral in Vienna still has a Romanesque wing though it was built in the mid-thirteenth century . |
| 25 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |
| 26 | It was built in the fourteenth century and shows Italian influence , being designed by craftsmen from Kotor ( Cattaro ) on the coast south of Dubrovnik where there is further Byzantine work . |
| 27 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
| 28 | Rather it is a socially constructed form whose ‘ influence ’ depends on how it was shaped in the first place . |
| 29 | It was suggested in the last chapter that analysis which tends to deal with the nature of modernity itself is always in danger of leading to assumptions concerning the superiority of certain ‘ advanced ’ peoples over others , which are in effect a version of primitivism . |
| 30 | It was suggested in the last chapter that some so-called ‘ policies ’ may be merely symbolic . |