Example sentences of "were [vb pp] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 2 | These were completed in the inter-war years , by which time the Lobito Bay railway in Angola and the Central African railway from Mozambique to Nyasaland were in operation . |
| 3 | growing areas , from Canada to Australia , were placed in the right latitudes . |
| 4 | The flotation went some way to offset criticism of the Nigerian government in a World Bank report , the details of which were given in the Financial Times of March 16 . |
| 5 | Even under the equator if you go deep enough you 'll enter water masses that were formed in the polar regions . |
| 6 | The United States Carter Centre , incorporating the Council for Freely Elected Heads of Government , which was supervising electoral preparations , had found in October that some 130,000 eligible voters had been omitted from the electoral register of a potential 350,000 names and that others were registered in the wrong areas . |
| 7 | Marriage was expected to last for life and adultery and fornication were punished in the ecclesiastical courts . |
| 8 | Its primary purpose was to make room for the large number of civilian air-raid casualties which were expected in the big cities . |
| 9 | Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market . |
| 10 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 11 | Lower ranks of the army in the troubled Tuareg areas of northern Niger were reported in the four days to Aug. 31 to have imposed martial law , ordered a curfew , and carried out in Agades , Arlit and Tchirozerine , a wave of arrests of alleged members or sympathizers of the Liberation Front of Air and Azawad ( FLAA ) . |
| 12 | Although Tanjug reported on July 6 that the situation in Kosovo was quiet , repeated protests were reported in the following days , notably in the Kosovo capital , Pristina ; thousands of workers responded to calls by ethnic Albanian leaders for a one-hour daily strike , despite public threats of dismissal by the Serbian authorities . |
| 13 | Further attacks were reported in the following days . |
| 14 | Incidents of violence in different places and four small bomb explosions at locations in Tema and Accra were reported in the ensuing days , and an obscure note sent to the Ghana News Agency indicated that the bombings were part of a campaign to overthrow Rawlings and his ruling Provisional National Defence Council ( PNDC ) . |
| 15 | Further arrests were reported in the ensuing days , and on Dec. 30 the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency reported the first of a series of " intensive " police campaigns against " hotbeds of terrorism and extremism " in other areas of Cairo . |
| 16 | Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished . |
| 17 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 18 | Both were considered in the following ways . |
| 19 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 20 | Outside the National Assembly some 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones and petrol bombs clashed with riot police ; at least 40 people were injured in the five hours of running battles which followed . |
| 21 | One person died and 26 were injured in the 1985 bombings . |
| 22 | Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context . |
| 23 | Returned to office in 1957 and 1961 , he and his party came under severe UK and US pressure and were defeated in the 1964 elections ( the last before independence in 1966 ; see pp. 19841 ; 21428 ) . |
| 24 | Candidates closely identified with the President were defeated in the important states of Rio Grande do Sul and Parana , and in particular in the key state of Sao Paulo , responsible for 50 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 25 | The leases that were granted in the heady days of 1989/90 when the brewery company landlords invited rental bids from tenants , saw them hungrily bidding up to 12 per cent to 15 per cent of the anticipated turnover . |
| 26 | Many fortresses and castles were built in the Middle Ages in Poland . |
| 27 | Henri Lefebvre , for example , formerly a bitter opponent of both Sartre and Nizan , recanted in 1959 , offering a more accommodating analysis of Nizan in particular , and Sartrean existentialism in general.43 Gradually , revolutionary aspirations that had been dashed by the Soviet intervention in Hungary were rekindled in the anti-colonial struggles of the Third World . |
| 28 | Hereford were outplayed in the early stages until Derek Hall sent a long ball upfield … |
| 29 | The technical way in which judicial decisions were made in the colonial courts was alien to indigenous tribunals but not to Sinhalese culture in general . |
| 30 | This is now a symbolic exchange , but it is a relic of the numerous treaties that once were made in the Pyrenean valleys to regulate the use of the high , communal pastures and put an end to the age-old practice of trespass or holding to ransom of intrusive livestock . |