Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that Reich only took half of Freud 's theory , and ignored the role of the death instincts which were developed in the later theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 2 | About the same date [ 1834 ] a range of Loose Boxes and Stalls were erected in the Lower Paddock near to the Ditch . |
| 3 | Even in these circumstances the approach provided a deep insight into the information needs of the organisation , and revealed a considerable number of potential improvements , some of which were implemented in the course of the study and others that were addressed in the longer term . |
| 4 | The most conspicuous financial gains by English combatants were made in the earlier phase of the Anglo-French wars or in the wars with Scotland — the esquire John Coupland , who captured David 11 of Scotland in 1346 , received lands worth £500 a year and the status of banneret , and many in the English army at Poitiers in 1356 received rich rewards ( 88 , p.30 ) . |
| 5 | He argued that the distribution of Iron Age and Roman sites on the Grovely ridge near Salisbury suggested territories which were reflected in the later parish boundaries . |
| 6 | In future it is hoped to establish an orchard as apples and , to a lesser extent , pears were cultivated in the later medieval period and were particularly important for the cider and perry they produced . |
| 7 | In my opinion , the sooner that we return to serious discussion about the government of the Province , and about the other considerations that were invested in the earlier talks , the better the people of Northern Ireland will be served . |
| 8 | Problems in providing efficient training were encountered in the remoter areas where adequate facilities were hard to find . |
| 9 | ) The age at which this ‘ secondary ’ drug use began varied between 13 and 24 , although 82 per cent of these individuals were concentrated in the lower age band of 13–17 . |
| 10 | Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales . |
| 11 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 12 | For a long while , Dave was second only to Johnny Byrne among our post-war goalscorers though , of course , all but a handful of ‘ Budgie 's ’ goals were scored in the lower divisions . |
| 13 | The principles established in England were followed in the smaller country . |
| 14 | The problems of employee resistance to change were discussed in the earlier chapter on conflict , stress and change . |
| 15 | After two or three hours , Harry say a sign indicating that Hamburg was 300 kilometres away , and he took this road as he knew Lubeck might be an alternative if no vessels for Sweden were berthed in the larger port . |
| 16 | Lining us up on the waste ground behind our barrack block , he had made the original offenders climb a pine tree until their bodies were jammed in the lower branches . |
| 17 | The bursts were recorded in the lower oesophagus , up to a distance of 15 cm ( 70% of the bursts ) and even 20 cm ( 40% of the bursts ) above the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 18 | In Sewell 's time the course of instruction , lasting generally for two sessions of nine months each , was given in the cooler months of the year , the brief viva voce examinations qualifying for entry to the Royal College 's diploma examinations being held in the unsuitable surroundings of the Freemasons ' tavern . |
| 19 | More broadly , it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence . |
| 20 | Our results confirmed that the distribution of labelled cells in FAP cases was exactly the same as that in SCRC cases : the proliferative compartment was located in the lower two thirds of the crypts and no abnormality of cell kinetics was seen in either FAP or SCRC cases . |
| 21 | As seen in the FAP cases , a proliferating compartment was seen in the lower two third portion of the crypts ( lower histogram ) . |
| 22 | If we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group , as you would expect , than in the higher risk group . |
| 23 | This statement of the common purpose of conservation and sustainable economic development was adopted in the later UN report Our Common Future and is now the basic text for the UN Earth Summit to be held next June . |
| 24 | The Symphony No 29 was written in the later part of 1773 . |
| 25 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 26 | * A small mound ( roughly ‘ T ’ -shaped ? ) of damp sand was made to raise the ball off the ground ( if required ) , for the first shot on every hole and a box of sand for this purpose was located on what was known in the earlier days as the teeing ground , but is now known as the tee , or tee box . |
| 27 | Certainly Cade 's assumption of the name Mortimer , by which he was known in the earlier stages of the revolt , hints at Yorkist connections . |
| 28 | The oscilloscope graph of both voices was flattened in the lower register : tension was restricting the movement of their vocal chords . |
| 29 | It was enlarged in the later Middle Ages and , in the sixteenth century , state rooms were incorporated . |
| 30 | There were interesting differences in the sociodemographic background of men and women in the same grades — men in the higher grades were more likely to be married and have dependent children than women , whereas the opposite pattern was observed in the lower grades . |