Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Slides were developed in diamino benzadine-hydrogen peroxide ( DAB ) in Tris buffer for 5 minutes , then washed in tap water . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A number of the cast including Julie Goodyear were delayed in traffic jams . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The gut sacs were placed in incubation flasks containing 30 ml of a similar solution to that of the serosal compartment . |
| 7 | As there was no longer room for the resistances under the seats , they were placed in metal cabinets under the stairs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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% ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The same is true of victims of the holocaust who were placed in concentration camps . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Banded and coloured offspring were reared in laboratory tanks ( from capsules laid by banded parents ) on a diet exclusively of barnacles ( mainly Elminius ) . |
| 15 | And in England student revolutionaries were gathering in television studios to frighten nervous presenters like Frank Mackenzie . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First costumes were already laid out , wigs were on stands , the changes were hanging in show order on rails in the wardrobe department . |
| 21 | By the end of December 1991 , 259 patients were on the coeliac register at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary , of whom 228 were diagnosed in adult life ( aged 15 years or over ) . |
| 22 | It is interesting to note that a lower proportion , one-third , were registered In computing departments ( Table 6.2 ) . |
| 23 | He encouraged their interest and enthusiasm by allocating locomotives to individual drivers , whose names were painted in gold letters in the driving-cab . |
| 24 | Opposition to the current system was most vociferous among ethnic groups who claimed that they were disadvantaged under a system of patronage whereby members of the President 's own ethnic group , the Limba , were favoured in government appointments . |
| 25 | You can then make the picture at your leisure , knowing that the flowers were pressed in peak condition . |
| 26 | Most of the dead and injured were motorists and their passengers who were trapped in traffic jams near the scene of the accident . |
| 27 | It emerged yesterday that all three letter bombs were contained in Jiffy bags and were of similar construction . |
| 28 | The second would be that arts teachers would not benefit from the experience their fellow teachers were gaining in curriculum building and which would be useful to practices in the arts . |
| 29 | While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work , the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres . |
| 30 | The dead were carried in wicker coffins from Keld along the corpse road , stops being made along the way for food and drink , and every so often there were great " coffin stones " at the side of the way where the pallbearers could rest the body ( one such stone still stands at the side of Ivelet Bridge ) . |