Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 2 | Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen . |
| 3 | Three of the original crew members of Mary Alice were traced in the mid 1980s and were willing to share their memories and experiences . |
| 4 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 5 | Comprehensive resettlement policies were developed in the 1970s — too late for these patients at Larbeit Asylum |
| 6 | Such assertions were developed in the 1970s into an onslaught on the theory of ‘ equidistance between the blocs ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Several underground and opencast fluorspar deposits ( with associated baryte and galena ) were developed in the Northern Pennine ( Weardale mines ) and the Southern Pennine ( Sallet Hole and Long Rake mines ) orefields . |
| 9 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 10 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 11 | Political and economic theories about the process of West European integration were developed in the 1950s in the light of the patterns of trade , industrial production , social interchange across borders , and international security which then prevailed . |
| 12 | From then on , as they were repainted in the new red livery , the remainder were renumbered 1–20 , in the reverse order of their old numbers . |
| 13 | NO ex-South Metropolitan car was ever renumbered , although a number were repainted in the official London Transport livery . |
| 14 | About the same date [ 1834 ] a range of Loose Boxes and Stalls were erected in the Lower Paddock near to the Ditch . |
| 15 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 16 | The fifteenth century saw the final phase of Gothic architecture in France , when many richly ornamented buildings were erected in the flamboyant style . |
| 17 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 18 | For example , in one strip the picture of the sun shining came first ( i.e. , on the left ) , and the picture of the snowman melting came second , whereas in the other strip the pictures were arranged in the opposite order . |
| 19 | The fateful evening came and the bottles were arranged in the Public Office on the counter , the beer stacked on the floor , the spirits higher , behind the Junior . |
| 20 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 21 | Although some of the former have been reclassified today , it is interesting to see what were listed in the mid-eighteenth century : Rosa canina , spinosissima , villosa , eglanteria , scotica , inermis , hispanica , scandens , sempervirens , virginiana , lutea , punicea , moschata , centifolia , damascena , alba , belgica , provincialis , incarnata , gallica , cinnamomea and muscosa . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , he saw no reason to delay other measures in the package : ‘ We have , after all , made extraordinary progress in the four years since these proposals were listed in the White Paper as part of the programme required for the Single Market . |
| 23 | As officers were to acknowledge in the formal consultation document on closure in 1986 , community mental health services were not all in place in the Riverside District , but the underlying objective of the strategy , to release resources to fund community service developments , had been achieved . |
| 24 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 25 | Occasional springtime dust storms in the Fens are even invoked as an ominous example , although these are caused by the drying out of the peat soils and have occurred since the Fens were drained in the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | In due course , several of the ex-L.U.T. cars were renumbered in the 2000s , as though still working as part of that fleet . |
| 27 | On the home front the major Little Britain project for Wimpey Property Holdings and the Criterion project at Piccadilly Circus were completed in the early part of the year , with the £7 million Astra Pharmaceuticals Project at Corby , Northants handed over at the year end . |
| 28 | These were completed in the inter-war years , by which time the Lobito Bay railway in Angola and the Central African railway from Mozambique to Nyasaland were in operation . |
| 29 | The interiors were redesigned in the neo-Baroque style in 1896 by the versatile J. Schulz . |
| 30 | growing areas , from Canada to Australia , were placed in the right latitudes . |