Example sentences of "were [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 2 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 3 | The problem is that Reich only took half of Freud 's theory , and ignored the role of the death instincts which were developed in the later theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 4 | Several underground and opencast fluorspar deposits ( with associated baryte and galena ) were developed in the Northern Pennine ( Weardale mines ) and the Southern Pennine ( Sallet Hole and Long Rake mines ) orefields . |
| 5 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 6 | It was decided that , to safeguard the future of the species , a population of at least 200 breeding adults would be kept safely in captivity , while other animals were gambled in an experimental reintroduction . |
| 7 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 8 | About the same date [ 1834 ] a range of Loose Boxes and Stalls were erected in the Lower Paddock near to the Ditch . |
| 9 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 10 | The fifteenth century saw the final phase of Gothic architecture in France , when many richly ornamented buildings were erected in the flamboyant style . |
| 11 | Pieces of buttered toast were arranged in a regular pattern on a silver dish — four slices awaiting their crowning with four perfect eggs . |
| 12 | She first confirmed Watson 's hypothesis that in the tobacco mosaic virus small protein sub-units were arranged in a helical fashion . |
| 13 | The shimmering folds of the nets were arranged in a looping canopy above where the musicians played , and effected a startling , glowing paleness in the untidy gloom of the attic . |
| 14 | For example , in one strip the picture of the sun shining came first ( i.e. , on the left ) , and the picture of the snowman melting came second , whereas in the other strip the pictures were arranged in the opposite order . |
| 15 | The fateful evening came and the bottles were arranged in the Public Office on the counter , the beer stacked on the floor , the spirits higher , behind the Junior . |
| 16 | The gill openings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys . |
| 17 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 18 | Although some of the former have been reclassified today , it is interesting to see what were listed in the mid-eighteenth century : Rosa canina , spinosissima , villosa , eglanteria , scotica , inermis , hispanica , scandens , sempervirens , virginiana , lutea , punicea , moschata , centifolia , damascena , alba , belgica , provincialis , incarnata , gallica , cinnamomea and muscosa . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As officers were to acknowledge in the formal consultation document on closure in 1986 , community mental health services were not all in place in the Riverside District , but the underlying objective of the strategy , to release resources to fund community service developments , had been achieved . |
| 21 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 22 | Occasional springtime dust storms in the Fens are even invoked as an ominous example , although these are caused by the drying out of the peat soils and have occurred since the Fens were drained in the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
| 24 | On the home front the major Little Britain project for Wimpey Property Holdings and the Criterion project at Piccadilly Circus were completed in the early part of the year , with the £7 million Astra Pharmaceuticals Project at Corby , Northants handed over at the year end . |
| 25 | The interiors were redesigned in the neo-Baroque style in 1896 by the versatile J. Schulz . |
| 26 | Subconfluent monolayers remained attached to coverslips , which were placed in a small chamber ( vol 2 ml ) and visualised on the stage of a Nikon ( Diaphot ) inverted microscope with Hoffmann modulated optics ( ×400 magnification ) . |
| 27 | They were placed in a gentle curve , about twenty traps in all , facing the outgoing tide . |
| 28 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 29 | Most of the civilians , eventually totalling some 6,000 , were placed in a separate camp next to the main military encampment at Viktring . |
| 30 | Landsats 1–3 were placed in a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 910 km . |