Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 2 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began a visit to the Soviet Union on Nov. 6 and announced the re-establishment of consular relations which were broken off in 1956 . |
| 3 | Several other minor , and apparently random , streets were also found in this area when flood prevention works were carried out in 1970 . |
| 4 | Even the ever-amiable Roger Moore fell out with Broccolli after discovering that secret auditions to find a replacement for Moore as Bond were carried out in 1980 . |
| 5 | Necropsies were carried out in 474 ( 98% ) of the 485 cases attributed to sudden infant death syndrome . |
| 6 | On hepatocytes — binding studies on whole cells were carried out in 24 well cluster trays . |
| 7 | House searches were carried out in 40 locations throughout Germany , and firearms , ammunition and neo-Nazi propaganda seized . |
| 8 | Hybridisations resulting in the autoradiographs of Figures 1 and 5 were carried out in 3 saline sodium phosphate ( SSPE ) , 10% dextran sulphate , 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulphate ( SDS ) , Denhardt 's and 100 µg/ml sonicated salmon sperm DNA at 65°C overnight . |
| 9 | Hens and geese were picking around in two small haystacks and fleets of tiny yellow chickens were half hidden beneath some planking and under the foundations of some rickety sheds . |
| 10 | Native Germans were pushed out in 1947 , their place taken by immigrants from the east . |
| 11 | Brixton itself was one of only two colleges which had nationally recognized diplomas in the field ( it was one of only four specialist institutions in the field ) , and as a member of the School he experienced the ‘ shock of rejection ’ , when its degree proposals were turned down in 1967–68 . |
| 12 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 13 | The two reactors were closed down in 1990 . |
| 14 | 12 Finished Wallow barrow & Hawes water so that the thirty plates were got through in 36 days or 5 weeks . |
| 15 | After a storm they were washed back in dozens , but most of them were broken or half ground to powder . |
| 16 | Pensioners Jim and Yolanda Byrne say they were told back in 1951 that they would only have to stay in their Liverpool maisonette for six months . |
| 17 | Pensioners Jim and Yolanda Byrne say they were told back in 1951 that they would only have to stay in their Liverpool maisonette for six months . |
| 18 | Flush from her victory over Austria , Prussia could easily have imposed the terms for the North German Federation on her partners , and indeed proposals were drawn up in 1866 for a union ‘ based on Prussian characteristics ’ . |
| 19 | The cavalry were drawn up in three companies , on the wings and in the centre . |
| 20 | An estimated 250 people were shown round in 11 tours , leaving the guides footsore and hoarse ! |
| 21 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 22 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 23 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |
| 24 | These cornerstones remain as firm in principle now as when they were laid down in 1981 , or when the blueprint was drawn in 1978 . |
| 25 | Some new auditing ideas were laid out in 1989 . |
| 26 | The public gardens beside the palazzo were laid out in 1784 by Giuseppe Piermarini who started by uniting the gardens and orchards of several monasteries . |
| 27 | The grounds were laid out in 1787 . |
| 28 | The gardens are the earliest example of Italian design in Bohemia and were laid out in 1534 by Giovanni Spazio for Ferdinand I. They were enlarged and altered by Jan Vredeman de Vries in 1563 and , following the vagaries of fashion , were transformed into French Baroque style in 1730 . |
| 29 | The " Green Con " awards were set up in 1989 to highlight bogus claims to environmental worthiness made by business . |
| 30 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |