Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 4 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 5 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 11 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 14 | How many , I wonder , were caught up in the looting frenzy themselves and are now attempting to make amends ? |
| 15 | Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse . |
| 16 | Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement . |
| 17 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 18 | It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 . |
| 19 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 20 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 21 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 22 | Members of the Royal Marines orchestra , including some bandsmen who were caught up in the bombing , played during the hour-long service . |
| 23 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 24 | It 's important again that we were seen around in the business community . |
| 25 | The classroom observations ( see 1a ) were written up in the form of case studies , to include descriptive accounts of the pupil 's microcomputer use , teachers ' class organisation and intervention occurrences . |
| 26 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 27 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 28 | He 's in one of those Victorian institutions that were built out in the countryside so the inmates would n't contaminate decent citizens . |
| 29 | If those paper debts were wiped out in the computer that prints your monthly statement , would it make any difference in real terms to anyone else ? |
| 30 | We were wiped out in the scrum and in the line-out . |