Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 2 | Fifteen wickets were to go down in all that day , and although Gooch and Robinson made a sound start , once they were separated the procession continued as normal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 6 | In fact the hade of Fleming 's Vein is nowhere regular as the miners were to find out in due course . |
| 7 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 8 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 9 | Several other minor , and apparently random , streets were also found in this area when flood prevention works were carried out in 1970 . |
| 10 | The two trials were carried out in adjacent populations in West Africa ; one looked in detail at the effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and the other at its effect on mortality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The sheriff of Cumberland received orders to see that the Council 's commands were carried out in all respects . |
| 13 | Both endoscopic ultrasound and computed tomography were carried out in all patients . |
| 14 | Necropsies were carried out in 474 ( 98% ) of the 485 cases attributed to sudden infant death syndrome . |
| 15 | Where individual dwellings have intermediate floors , these were carried out in traditional timber joisted construction , the joists being hung from the new masonry cross-walls on joist-hangers . |
| 16 | Direct field observations of professional and paraprofessional social service personnel at work and in training were carried out in each country . |
| 17 | On hepatocytes — binding studies on whole cells were carried out in 24 well cluster trays . |
| 18 | No measurements of protein synthesis in individual tissues or intestinal mucosa were carried out in these studies , however . |
| 19 | Clostridium difficile toxin assays , biopsy examination and culture for mycobacteria and immunohistochemical detection of herpes virus and cytomegalovirus in biopsy specimens were carried out in particular cases . |
| 20 | House searches were carried out in 40 locations throughout Germany , and firearms , ammunition and neo-Nazi propaganda seized . |
| 21 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In over 60 countries the courts gave out death sentences , which were carried out in more than half these countries . |
| 24 | Until now , all sub-nuclear experiments to test such theories were carried out in huge accelerators with diameters of 10 kilometres or more . |
| 25 | Public and private sector managers alike were caught up in wider social systems . |
| 26 | They would believe that all these people were caught up in this satanic net . |
| 27 | Again , I do not think that individuals are to be blamed for this : whole societies were caught up in this sexist interpretation of reality . |
| 28 | The most illustrious names in retailing from the House of Fraser to Macy 's and Bloomingdale 's were caught up in leveraged and management buyouts . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Native Germans were pushed out in 1947 , their place taken by immigrants from the east . |