Example sentences of "[det] were [verb] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’
2 If this were done in the City , the IRA could simply switch their targets to prestigious offices in the provinces .
3 In the mid-1940s , explanations for this were offered in the form of theories which presented anatomical features as the cause of the blacks ' advantages .
4 Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales .
5 Some interesting reasons for this were suggested in The Observer in 1986 .
6 Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished .
7 Measurements of remanent magnetism in a variety of volcanic rocks found on the continents had shown that some were magnetized in the opposite direction to the Earth 's present magnetic field .
8 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 .
9 It just took 'em up like that , and took 'em across : some were lying in the ditch , some in the hedge .
10 Several strange-looking animals were lying in a field , and some were sitting in a tree .
11 Of the estimated 1,500 journeymen and 1,200 apprentices working as printers ( pressmen and compositors combined ) in Scotland in the 1850s , rather more than half were working in the book and jobbing section of the trade , the rest in newspaper offices . "
12 These were applied in the case of the Jones family .
13 These were recorded in the Salle Wagram , paris , in 1970 and , as with the Symphonies above , have come up sounding splendid in their new transfers .
14 in 1968 ; none of these were recorded in the Belfast inner-city communities .
15 These were exemplified in the Government 's Broadcasting Bill which became law last October , but in reality can not be resolved until the next century .
16 But these were kept in a tall airy room , admittedly with a double door , in locked heavy glass cases .
17 These were innovated in the United States , where the innovating exchanges quickly built up a form of " first mover advantage " via endogenous economies of scale , which gave them an impregnable position in the market for their respective instruments within a very short span of time .
18 ‘ Thalidomide was proved by three years of animal tests , ’ she said , ‘ and these were confirmed in every country of its use except for Turkey .
19 And they were the originals of these were made in a place called in Germany .
20 The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's .
21 These were presented in the form ‘ x+y ’ .
22 These were taught in a number of schools which had sprung up mainly in large cities throughout the nineteenth century .
23 These were deposited in a basin plain environment and are laterally equivalent to the Stinkdolomit ( Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Clark in press ) .
24 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 .
25 These were placed in a very large polystyrene box , which was then sealed up with tape and the message ‘ Please reseal if opened ’ boldly written across the top .
26 These were placed in the upper course , tributary valleys where the steep gradients of the rivers made it easy to divert the water for only short distances to allow a sufficient fall to drive the water wheels .
27 These were assessed in a Best Practicable Environmental Option study , which considers factors such as radiological safety , costs and site-related factors , for example visual impact .
28 Marriage was obviously not simply a religious union but had profound social consequences and these were recognised in the formal legal changes of the nineteenth century .
29 These were stated in the 1987 consultation document to be :
30 These were undertaken in a fundamental research program that set out to compare various models proposed for a CAD system .
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