Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 2 | The long established working class were rehoused on a massive scale , but many were stacked in tower blocks : the numbers of Council flats in England and Wales built fifteen or more storeys from the ground rose from 8 in 1955 to 17,351 in 1965 . |
| 3 | After exposure , the slides were developed in Ilford Phenprint at 18°C , fixed in Ilford Hypam fixative , and counterstained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 4 | Slides were developed in diamino benzadine-hydrogen peroxide ( DAB ) in Tris buffer for 5 minutes , then washed in tap water . |
| 5 | Over two thousand Bailey bridges were erected in north-west Europe between June 1944 and May 1945 and the design was also used extensively in Italy and the Far East . |
| 6 | In 1786 ‘ Kepplewhite & Son ’ ( sic ) were listed in Lowndes London directory at 48 Redcross Street . |
| 7 | Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century . |
| 8 | Both accused were remanded in police custody until June 17 , when they will reappear before Huyton magistrates . |
| 9 | A number of the cast including Julie Goodyear were delayed in traffic jams . |
| 10 | On arriving at Cape Town we found that the rumours of a seamen 's strike were very real , and that several boats were delayed in Table Bay owing to the crews ' refusing to take the vessels to sea . |
| 11 | For three weeks we were delayed in Cape Town , with hardly a passenger boat being able to sail , although one or two boats managed to sneak away but with fear of being black/egged on arriving at the next port of call . |
| 12 | The gut sacs were placed in incubation flasks containing 30 ml of a similar solution to that of the serosal compartment . |
| 13 | As there was no longer room for the resistances under the seats , they were placed in metal cabinets under the stairs . |
| 14 | Those who could produce evidence of ‘ character , associations and loyalty ’ were placed in category C and were left to their own devices , at least for the time being . |
| 15 | After removal , mucosal biopsy specimens were placed in ice cold pregassed Krebs-Henseleit buffer containing 11 mM glucose , and transported within 10 minutes to the laboratory . |
| 16 | The strips were placed in organ baths containing 20 ml of Krebs solution at 37°C continuously bubbled with O 2 : CO 2 ( 95%:5% ) . |
| 17 | For 24 hours before sacrifice at 32 weeks , animals were placed in metabolism cages and a 24 hour stool collection was performed for faecal fat measurement . |
| 18 | The same is true of victims of the holocaust who were placed in concentration camps . |
| 19 | Decks of cards , held together ( sometimes precariously ) by elastic bands were placed in input trays , collected by operators , and fed into the computer through a card-reader . |
| 20 | Banded and coloured offspring were reared in laboratory tanks ( from capsules laid by banded parents ) on a diet exclusively of barnacles ( mainly Elminius ) . |
| 21 | And in England student revolutionaries were gathering in television studios to frighten nervous presenters like Frank Mackenzie . |
| 22 | Gorbachev , shortly before his resignation , sent a message to the representatives who were gathering in Alma Ata urging them to consider a form of Commonwealth citizenship so that all the former citizens of the USSR would feel their rights were protected in whichever republic they were resident . |
| 23 | Briefly , tumours or mucosal scrapings were homogenised in TEA buffer ( 250 mM sucrose , 10 mM triethanolamine ( pH 7.6 ) containing 1 mM phenylmethylsuphonylfluoride ( PMSF ) and 1 mM N-ethylmaleimide as protease inhibitors ) on ice and centrifuged at 1000 g for 10 minutes . |
| 24 | Sections of ethanol fixed tissue were prefixed in periodate lysine ( 2% ) paraformaldehyde for 10 minutes at 4°C and briefly washed in isotonic phosphate buffered saline ( pH 7.5 ) before use . |
| 25 | The privatization programme envisaged that 25 per cent of state enterprises would be sold by the end of 1992 ; about 25 categories of assets were to remain in state ownership , however , including natural resources and strategic enterprises . |
| 26 | They were situated in Coniscliffe Road ( extant ) , Northgate , North Road ( both disappeared since the Fifties ) , near the gateway to the East Mount mansion in Haughton Road ( disappeared when East Mount was demolished after the Second World War ) , and two at either end of the Bank Top Cut ( vanished when the cut was widened in the 1930s ) . |
| 27 | They were a group of 130 citizens , headed by their Burgomaster from the small Dutch town of Haren , who were received in Church House before being taken to the homes of their local hosts . |
| 28 | These factors were : ( 1 ) its organisation which acquired the films and the exclusive overseas rights therein was in Hong Kong ; ( 2 ) its sales organisation was in Hong Kong ; ( 3 ) the representatives who were sent abroad were part of the Hong Kong sales organisation ; ( 4 ) the sub-licences were drawn up in Hong Kong , according to Hong Kong law , and were dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 5 ) the films were either delivered in or dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 6 ) the films at the expiry of the sub-licence period had to be returned to Hong Kong or were destroyed ; and ( 7 ) payments for the grant of the sub-licences were received in Hong Kong . |
| 29 | It stated that ‘ medical evidence revealed cases in which injuries , whatever the precise cause , were not self-inflicted and were sustained in police custody ’ . |
| 30 | In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan . |