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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fifteenth century saw the final phase of Gothic architecture in France , when many richly ornamented buildings were erected in the flamboyant style . |
| 7 | Pieces of buttered toast were arranged in a regular pattern on a silver dish — four slices awaiting their crowning with four perfect eggs . |
| 8 | She first confirmed Watson 's hypothesis that in the tobacco mosaic virus small protein sub-units were arranged in a helical fashion . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The gill openings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys . |
| 13 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The interiors were redesigned in the neo-Baroque style in 1896 by the versatile J. Schulz . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | They were placed in a gentle curve , about twenty traps in all , facing the outgoing tide . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most of the civilians , eventually totalling some 6,000 , were placed in a separate camp next to the main military encampment at Viktring . |
| 24 | Landsats 1–3 were placed in a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 910 km . |
| 25 | The staff were placed in a reserved occupation and not allowed to join the armed forces . |
| 26 | One or two lkg slices were placed in a special tray at the top of the familiar airline catering trolleys which were then transported in unrefrigerated vehicles to the aircraft . |
| 27 | They were placed in a large room with about thirty men . |
| 28 | there was no duty of care imposed where the children were placed in an independent school approved by the secretary of state . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In a recent study ( Kloska and Ramasut 1985 ) sources of stress were placed in the following order by teachers : |