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Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1	Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire .
2	Nobody knew what legal matters they had to sort out as they were spied from Martindale 's Gate traversing the shrubbery paths of The Hall in deep conversation , and they were rarely seen in company in the village except on an occasional outing together to buy postage stamps .
3	Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile .
4	Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal .
5	Its policies were not tested by debate in the open political arena , but by private discussion among officials , and by public elucidation and explanation throughout the party membership and beyond .
6	There were some attempts at consultation , notably with Commonwealth finance ministers in 1947 and 1949 , but the relationship is perhaps symbolized by the fact that the RSA countries were not consulted on devaluation in 1949 , simply informed of the decision a day or two before it took place .
7	Indian patronage was further divided by the intended destination in India , for military cadets were not appointed for service in India at large , but to a particular presidency , each of which maintained its own army .
8	But he is afraid he have to correct Mr Browne on a matter of geography : the British troops were not waiting for war in the Kuwaiti desert ; that was the Iraqi troops .
9	Lessons that should have been learned from two similar collisions at Bellgrove in Glasgow and Hyde near Manchester , were not taken on board in time .
10	Lessons that should have been learned from two similar collisions at Bellgrove in Glasgow and Hyde near Manchester , were not taken on board in time .
11	Sherlock distinguished biological aspects which were not considered in detail in his book , which focused instead upon geological aspects with particular attention devoted to denudation by excavation and attrition , to subsidence , to accumulation , to alterations of the sea coast , to the circulation of water , and to climate and scenery .
12	Input/output operations were not specified in detail in this paper , but three devices were proposed : an electric typewriter for the transfer of small quantities of data , a display unit for graphical presentation of results , and several magnetic wire or tape units to provide a secondary storage medium and for all normal input and output .
13	The more obvious uses to which the coin was put , the contexts in which they are found and their distribution has led to a general belief that they were not used as currency in commercial transactions ; rather , they were valued as bullion .
14	Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land .
15	And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner .
16	Vincent Cheng , a Catholic social worker whom the government had accused of leading a " Marxist conspiracy " , and Teo Soh Lung , one of Cheng 's co-conspirators , were conditionally released from prison in June 1990 [ see p. 37533 ] .
17	With this faint translucent grey the face , pose and clothing were rapidly sketched from life in a free and speculative manner although care had to be exercised around the face where the tint of grey would also shade the flesh .
18	West German fuel rods were formerly sent for storage in the USA , until the practice was halted by environmental objections in 1988 .
19	It produced forecasts for various markets , and said those showed some were clearly earmarked for success in the future while others should be taken on only by those with a ‘ real taste for a challenge ’ .
20	What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ?
21	He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’
22	Spiced currant dumplings cooked with boiled beef were also eaten at Easter in the Cambridge area .
23	Miyazawa 's recent calls for a period of renewed economic growth in Japan and for a cut in Japanese interest rates ( implying a weakening of the yen and a growth in the trade surplus ) were also received with concern in the USA .
24	High levels of cadmium , lead and chromium were also found in sediment in the Dogger Bank .
25	The hatches were also brought into use in the 1939–1945 war .
26	The numbers of missing and of discrepant entries were correlated ( r=0.42 , p<0.05 ) , and both of these were also correlated with variability in peak expiratory flow ; this variability also correlated with missing data .
27	one woman and a police officer — were later taken to hospital in Belfast .
28	Animals were often offered for sacrifice in sevens , and the blood of sacrifice was on certain occasions sprinkled seven times by the priest .
29	Many of the poems in these collections were originally written for publication in magazines or newspapers amidst the increasingly time-consuming business of managing his literary property .
30	Latex barriers were originally developed for use in dental surgery ( hence their other name ‘ dental dams ’ ) and are sheets of thin rubber around five inches square .