Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English were taught in a different school to the Chinese . |
| 2 | The possibility that some were produced in a royal secretariat can not be totally excluded , although the evidence for the existence of such an office under Cnut is far from compelling . |
| 3 | Several strange-looking animals were lying in a field , and some were sitting in a tree . |
| 4 | It was proposed to lay the tramway extension along the broad Middle Walk , but this was defeated in a poll of the ratepayers , and the track had to be constructed along the narrow upper carriageway . |
| 5 | Some deputies proposed that footage of the exchanges concerning the ANT affair should be omitted from the coming evening 's edited television broadcast of Congress proceedings , but this was defeated in a vote by 1,250 to 637 . |
| 6 | A general election held in June 1987 resulted in the return to power of a coalition government led by Paias Wingti , but this was defeated in a parliamentary vote of no confidence on July 4 , 1988 , and replaced by a coalition led by Namaliu . |
| 7 | This was devised in a rising market , in very different circumstances from today . |
| 8 | This was said in a voice expecting contradiction , which Charles wilfully withheld . |
| 9 | This was revealed in a survey carried out by Kelly ( 1987 ) for the Wagner committee . |
| 10 | This was expressed in a more rational and less extreme form than in the Britons Society , although individuals like Baron Sydenham of Coombe appeared to be connected with both . |
| 11 | And this was expressed in a very imaginative presentation by Professor a young in her keynote lecture when she called for three significant changes . |
| 12 | This was demonstrated in a recent study of the Cheapside area in the centre of the city , supported by the ESRC ( Project Reference : D/00/23/0044 ) . |
| 13 | This was placed in a sterile universal tube and centrifuged at 14000 revolutions per minute for 4 minutes as previously described to elute sample DNA . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the 1970s , in an exploration of the role and relations of physical geography , Chorley ( 1971 ) had proposed that control systems offered an approach whereby human activity acts as a regulator in natural systems and this was explored in a major textbook on systems ( Chorley and Kennedy , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | This was recognised in a survey of the legal position ( Age Concern , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | This was contained in a joint statement issued with the New Zealand Rugby Football Union as both Unions had to formalise their 1992 domestic international programme . |
| 17 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 18 | This was blamed in a general downturn in the market . |
| 19 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 20 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 21 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 22 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 23 | ‘ And all this was found in a shed on the moor . |
| 24 | ‘ Jordan owns a shotgun and all this — ’ he indicated the undertaker 's clothing — ‘ all this was found in a shed within two hundred yards of his cottage . ’ |
| 25 | These qualifications made , there remains a set of findings difficult to reconcile with Howe 's ( 1986 ) proposition that ‘ the work controls the worker ’ — though admittedly this was advanced in a context which excluded the kind of organizational influences the present work has begun to tackle . |
| 26 | An example of this was shown in a television wild-life programme . |
| 27 | This was shown in a handsome but stiff pose , painted by Barraband , in Vieillot 's book Tropical Songbirds ( 1805–9 ) : though drawn from life , it looks stuffed but is very decorative , and is accurate enough to fit its primarily taxonomic purpose as well . |
| 28 | This was reflected in a series of official government reports and White Papers , which offered the prospect of a still greater expansion of local authority spending and responsibility but only on the basis of substantial reorganization to provide greater efficiency and improve the calibre of councillors and officers . |
| 29 | And all this was reflected in a book of genius he was going to translate and embellish for his own ends . |
| 30 | This was reflected in a loosening of what had traditionally been a strong correlation between landownership and civil and military office , especially at the highest level . |