Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 3 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 4 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 5 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 6 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |
| 7 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 8 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 9 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 10 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 11 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 12 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 13 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 14 | No clear distinction could yet be made between the wholesale and retail trades that were carried on in the ‘ shops ’ in the historic centre of the city . |
| 15 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 16 | These producers were carried out in a darkened room . |
| 17 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 18 | Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building . |
| 19 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 20 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 21 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 22 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 23 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 24 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 25 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 26 | Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 . |
| 27 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 28 | One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine . |
| 29 | Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest . |
| 30 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |