Example sentences of "these were [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were completed in the inter-war years , by which time the Lobito Bay railway in Angola and the Central African railway from Mozambique to Nyasaland were in operation . |
| 2 | These were placed in the upper course , tributary valleys where the steep gradients of the rivers made it easy to divert the water for only short distances to allow a sufficient fall to drive the water wheels . |
| 3 | Marriage was obviously not simply a religious union but had profound social consequences and these were recognised in the formal legal changes of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | These were stated in the 1987 consultation document to be : |
| 5 | Most of these were dispersed in the 1920s : Lord Amherst 's large Egyptian collection was sold at Sotheby 's in 1921 , many pieces being bought by American museums , while Lord Carnarvon sold his collection to the Metropolitan Museum in 1926 for $145,000 ( after teasing the British Museum with a phoney offer ) . |
| 6 | In a post-war broadcast in 1946 , he referred to the development of eight-feet wide trams with resilient wheels which he hoped to introduce to Blackpool , and these were manifested in the 1952 Coronation trams . |
| 7 | Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton . |
| 8 | All these were produced in the Barberini theatre . |
| 9 | Even during the much more disastrous Seven Years War she made strenuous efforts under the Duc de Choiseul to recover her lost seapower , and these were continued in the 1760s and 1770s . |