Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 2 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 3 | Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse . |
| 4 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 5 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 6 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 8 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is the carbohydrate stodge we were warned about in the Kylie article . |
| 11 | Some of the words of Ms Galron 's song , which explores the theme of guilt and responsibility for the uprising while Tel Aviv makes merry , were read out in the Knesset yesterday in the course of a stormy debate marking the second anniversary of the intifada . |