Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel . |
| 2 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 3 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 4 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 5 | In the course of the project , assessment materials were developed in a variety of modes . |
| 6 | Milton 's ideas , for instance , were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life . |
| 7 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 8 | Staggered vertical timbers were erected in the trench , probably with horizontal members between the verticals ; stakes were placed in a line down the centre between the verticals to hold the intervening panels of daubed wattles . |
| 9 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 10 | When the weaving stage of manufacture was finally adapted to steam power , mills were erected in the hillside villages alongside the homes of the workforce . |
| 11 | Pastel walls formed a tasteful background to a selection of mounted Sara Moon prints , fresh flowers were arranged in a crystal vase , and there was a pink shade on the small desk lamp . |
| 12 | In the front window was a display of paint-brushes which were arranged in a fan . |
| 13 | ‘ We had time booked , songs were arranged in the studio and I was writing lyrics on the day they sang them . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the active County Federation of WEA Branches and the collective strength of the members in the established branches such as Northampton , Kettering , Raunds , Rushden and Wellingborough ensured continuity of Tutorial Classes and other WEA courses and about thirty classes were arranged in the county in each year throughout the decade . |
| 15 | They were arranged in the form of a great flattened disc . |
| 16 | As far as the primary phase of schooling was concerned , the plan of development favoured the same activities as were listed in A Framework for the School Curriculum , except that more attention was devoted to history and geography , to expressive arts , and to science , and to the need for clearly structured and progressively demanding work in these areas of the curriculum . |
| 17 | No underwriters were listed in the filing . |
| 18 | The great sun god had many forms and names , seventy-four of which were listed in the Litany of Re , a text which was inscribed in the entrances of royal tombs of the New Kingdom . |
| 19 | More useful is my enumeration of persons who were listed in the Hue and Cry , a biweekly bulletin published by the police . |
| 20 | The book also records the 1972 National Federation of Fish Friers conference at the Park Hotel , Tynemouth , where the president 's banquet and ball cost £2.50 and delegates were entrailed in a debate about what to do with chicken giblets . |
| 21 | They were assisting in the birth of government as the modem world has known it . |
| 22 | Intercontinent were assisting in the formation of Hindustan Aircraft in India , and an assembly line for the PC-5A was set-up there . |
| 23 | The two sculpted figures that flank the entrance symbolize holiness and wisdom ( la pietà e la sapienza ) and were completed in the mid-seventeenth-century by the sculptor Giovan Battista Casella . |
| 24 | Only 35 houses were completed in the area in the last year yet the survey revealed 522 households needing different or additional accommodation within five years . |
| 25 | Gerald Kingsland 's exploits on the island were immortalised in the film Castaway . |
| 26 | Factories were ordered to cut production levels and road repairs were halted in an effort to cut traffic jams . |
| 27 | FOUR workers were contaminated in a radiation leak at top-secret Aldermaston atomic weapons base yesterday . |
| 28 | ND were placed in a winning position by an admirably determined and skilful innings of 129 from wicketkeeper Bryan Young . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the relics — fragments of lumbar bones — were placed in a vault at the Midland Bank , Woking , until a High Court judge ruled in April , 1988 , that they should be moved to the Russian Orthodox Church in exile at nearby Brookwood , Surrey , pending a final trial of the ownership action . |
| 30 | They were placed in a corner clutching over five pounds worth of raffle tickets each . |