Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 2 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 3 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 4 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 5 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 6 | The deficit reduction targets outlined in April 1989 [ see above ] were revised upwards in the budget to account for higher interest payments . |
| 7 | The thirty-seven canal companies who in 1825 were barely meeting their expenses were situated mostly in the south , in which region most of the unwise ventures of the boom period were concentrated . |
| 8 | While the principles for a Catholic ecumenism were formulated principally in the decree specifically devoted to this , all the other main documents of the Council — most notably the two dogmatic constitutions and the Declaration on Religious Freedom — were profoundly affected by this concern . |
| 9 | Two ministers were dismissed later in the year for criticizing government actions : the Information and Broadcasting Minister , Waruru Kanja , in April ( replaced by Nahashion Kanyi ) , and the Agriculture Minister Maina Wanjigi , in June ( replaced by Elijah Mwangale ) . |
| 10 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 11 | There is some evidence that the coefficients on expected returns were biased downwards in the OLS equation . |
| 12 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 13 | However , one must realise that religion , law , rule and learning were fused together in the consciousness of the eighth and ninth centuries . |
| 14 | Our economy has a substantial financial services sector , which would be greatly disadvantaged if the central bank were located anywhere in the Community other than in this country and in London . |
| 15 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 16 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 17 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 18 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 19 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 20 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 21 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 22 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 23 | One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine . |
| 24 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 25 | It will be remembered that hydrogen , having given way to the use of coal gas from 1821 , although still being utilised when effective pressurised containers were designed later in the century , regained popularity with 20th Century airships . |
| 26 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 27 | Other disturbances , widely regarded as ‘ copycat ’ , were reported elsewhere in the West Midlands , for example in Moseley , Wolverhampton , and Coventry , and in the St Paul 's district of Bristol . |
| 28 | Large roosts were reported elsewhere in the county , but Abbey Park remained a pleasant place . |
| 29 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 30 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |