Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 2 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 3 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 4 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 5 | The single cards too were placed variously in the top half , bottom half and crossing the central strip . |
| 6 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 7 | The deficit reduction targets outlined in April 1989 [ see above ] were revised upwards in the budget to account for higher interest payments . |
| 8 | The thirty-seven canal companies who in 1825 were barely meeting their expenses were situated mostly in the south , in which region most of the unwise ventures of the boom period were concentrated . |
| 9 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 10 | While the principles for a Catholic ecumenism were formulated principally in the decree specifically devoted to this , all the other main documents of the Council — most notably the two dogmatic constitutions and the Declaration on Religious Freedom — were profoundly affected by this concern . |
| 11 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 12 | Two ministers were dismissed later in the year for criticizing government actions : the Information and Broadcasting Minister , Waruru Kanja , in April ( replaced by Nahashion Kanyi ) , and the Agriculture Minister Maina Wanjigi , in June ( replaced by Elijah Mwangale ) . |
| 13 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 14 | There is some evidence that the coefficients on expected returns were biased downwards in the OLS equation . |
| 15 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 16 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |
| 17 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |
| 18 | However , one must realise that religion , law , rule and learning were fused together in the consciousness of the eighth and ninth centuries . |
| 19 | Tumour necrosis factor positive cells were located mainly in the deeper lamina propria , whereas the interleukin 1 signal was diffuse , but predominantin subepithelial macrophages . |
| 20 | Our economy has a substantial financial services sector , which would be greatly disadvantaged if the central bank were located anywhere in the Community other than in this country and in London . |
| 21 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 22 | It will be remembered that hydrogen , having given way to the use of coal gas from 1821 , although still being utilised when effective pressurised containers were designed later in the century , regained popularity with 20th Century airships . |
| 23 | Other disturbances , widely regarded as ‘ copycat ’ , were reported elsewhere in the West Midlands , for example in Moseley , Wolverhampton , and Coventry , and in the St Paul 's district of Bristol . |
| 24 | Large roosts were reported elsewhere in the county , but Abbey Park remained a pleasant place . |
| 25 | Of the seventy cases which were reported only in the local newspapers in the sample , there were six cases ( 9 per cent ) where the coverage lasted more than one day . |
| 26 | In the first twenty-year period , 1951 to 1971 , the News of the World had carried the vast majority of the rape cases which were reported anywhere in the national press ( despite being only a weekly paper ) . |
| 27 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 28 | All patients had normal serum concentrations of liver enzymes and bilirubin and were included consecutively in the study . |
| 29 | Clearly the abundances of these materials at the surface exceeds those of the Moon as a whole and this could either be because of upward differentiation or because such materials were added late in the formation of the Moon . |
| 30 | Words of warning were lurking somewhere in the darkest recesses of her mind , but the physical longing was n't so easy to abruptly cancel out , and besides Guy was already peeling the rest of the gold swimsuit down to her waist , then straddling her to place strategic kisses along the path of exposed skin as he lifted her hips to ease the costume down to her thighs . |