Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 2 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 3 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 4 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 5 | Business corporations such as Unilever , ICI and Shell were operating transnationally in the nineteenth century , but their proliferation and freedom of operation has been greatly facilitated , since the Second World War , by technological development . |
| 6 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 7 | TUESDAY 'S play in the first round singles events having been rained off were played yesterday in the 31st Dun Laoghire Bowling tournament in Dublin . |
| 8 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 9 | If legislation were introduced early in the next session of parliament ( beginning in November 1991 ) , the first of the new authorities could be in place by April 1994 , and local authorities would be consulted on the basis that the new tax could be in place in 1993-94 . |
| 10 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 11 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 12 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 14 | It is believed that substantial numbers of ‘ additional ’ known drug users may have been ‘ missed ’ only in the case of GPs ( to whom 124 problem drug users were known exclusively in the first survey ) . |
| 15 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 16 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 17 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 18 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |
| 19 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 20 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |