Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] were [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the colonial period , missionary schools increasingly received government grants , and some government schools for blacks were established in urban areas . |
| 2 | But as time went on and techniques advanced , they found that peculiar sorts of molecules turned up , rather unusual ones , things that were n't expected — molecules that are very uncommon on the earth and in fact a number of molecules were discovered in interstellar space before they were discovered in the laboratory . |
| 3 | Following on from the recommendations of the report , a number of projects were commissioned in 1986 within this area which are included within the Competitiveness Initiative . |
| 4 | In the Trocadero large quantities of objects were displayed in a crowded , haphazard fashion , and , while Picasso was undoubtedly overwhelmed by what he saw and experienced , the impression he carried away with him must have been of a very general , metaphysical kind . |
| 5 | In April 1989 a series of houses were raided in West Germany and bomb-making equipment was found , which was thought to be associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |
| 6 | Scores of houses were devastated in a no-warning attack on an RUC station . |
| 7 | More than two thirds of mutations were located in the 5' half of the last exon , and over 90% resulted in truncation of the APC gene product . |
| 8 | Although the system of relief under the Poor Law had changed when the Boards of Guardians were disbanded in 1929 and changes had been made in the unemployment insurance scheme , the principle of not allowing unemployment benefit to exceed a man 's wages was by no means abandoned . |
| 9 | The Poor Law Boards of Guardians were abolished in 1930 and their responsibilities distributed among the appropriate committees of the county councils and county boroughs . |
| 10 | Memories of the 1983 riots , when thousands of Tamils were butchered in Colombo , are lively . |
| 11 | During the middle decades of the century , vast numbers of animals were slaughtered in both India and Africa . |
| 12 | Tens of thousands of whippings were inflicted in India : 75,223 in 1878 alone , for example , and 64,087 in 1897 . |
| 13 | The deficit for the 1990 underwriting year is expected to soar to £2.4 billion , after £2 billion of losses were suffered in 1989 . |
| 14 | The embalmer glanced to check how close he was to a narrow shelf on which a series of knives were arranged in orderly rows . |
| 15 | Hundreds of journalists were tried in the purges — ‘ l'épuration ’ — that followed the Liberation : more perhaps than any other profession , journalists paid the price of collaboration . |
| 16 | Like living pelagic animals they had preferences for particular water temperatures ; different types of ammonoids were found in high or low latitudes . |
| 17 | Each model was presented with a small crest , then with accentuated crest , then with small crest again on about 10d each ; roughly equal numbers of responses were scored in each phase . |
| 18 | A number of barges were hidden in the trees along the lakeside and Mandeville and Santerre ordered these to be brought together . |
| 19 | Additionally , a slightly higher proportion of blacks were sentenced in adult rather than juvenile magistrates courts and of these a higher proportion of blacks were tried in the crown courts . |
| 20 | Additionally , a slightly higher proportion of blacks were sentenced in adult rather than juvenile magistrates courts and of these a higher proportion of blacks were tried in the crown courts . |
| 21 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 22 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 23 | It was the night of the school disco and a group of parents were standing in the corner as the kids enjoyed themselves on the dance floor . |
| 24 | One effect of wiring for trolleybuses was that the two pairs of wires were accommodated in troughing under the bridges at Selhurst and Selby Road . |
| 25 | ‘ There is considerable danger here of drawing the conclusion that because the two sets of bones were found in conjunction and on the same date , they must have met their deaths at the same time . |
| 26 | A large number of rebels were imprisoned in Wells Cathedral and later in the jails of Taunton and Bridgwater , where Ken visited them and ministered to their spiritual and material misery . |
| 27 | Cayley 's work soon encouraged many mathematicians to invariant theory , described by Sylvester as " the essence of modern algebra " , and so many invariants were found that , to bring some order to the subject , minimal systems of invariants were sought in terms of which all others could be expressed . |
| 28 | Among those aged 16–24 , over 80 per cent of West Indians and 15 per cent of Asians were born in Britain , while of those over 25 , only 3 per cent of West Indians and less than 1 per cent of Asians were born here . |
| 29 | The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1978 . |
| 30 | SEVEN new cases of AIDS were reported in Scotland last month , bringing the total to 371 . |