Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 2 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 3 | Consumer goods industries were the linchpin , and these were overwhelmingly located in the West Midlands and in and around Greater London . |
| 4 | These were eventually formalized in the Weber-Fechner law which reported a quantitative relationship between stimulus and subjective experience , the sensation increasing in proportion to the logarithm of the magnitude of the physical stimulus . |
| 5 | Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed . |
| 6 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 7 | The important parameters were eventually located in the installation guide which came with the harddisk — a little logic mixed with an educated guess or two provided the other figures and the project was complete . |
| 8 | These were eventually embodied in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949 . |
| 9 | It was a hopeless task , we were slowly sinking in the mire . |
| 10 | Nailing was an exception , but women and children were widely employed in the light metal wares of Birmingham . |
| 11 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 12 | The merits and demerits of alternative funding systems were widely debated in the " alternative reviews " which accompanied the Prime Ministerial Review of 1988 . |
| 13 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 14 | The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened . |
| 15 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 16 | They complained about being ‘ bounced ’ into accepting last-minute decisions , were widely reported in the media , and they forced Mrs Thatcher to agree to a Cabinet debate about the economic strategy . |
| 17 | But the great majority of the class , including all those with typical saw-blade profiles ( graptoloids ) which were widely used in the dating of rocks , certainly lacked any kind of rooting structure . |
| 18 | The shots , which were widely reprinted in the Allied press , showed a relaxed General listening to his wife play the piano or watching her knit . |
| 19 | The rocks were widely scattered in the process . |
| 20 | Bishop Burnet , whose church-manship and politics were very different , and whose memoirs were widely read in the eighteenth century , described him as |
| 21 | Troops who fought for pay were little discussed in the sources ; but Henry I 's insurance policy in the treaty of 1101 — not invoked , as far as we know — cost £500 sterling a year . |
| 22 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 23 | If one-roomed cottages were rarely built in the nineteenth century , those with two were common , though very few survive today . |
| 24 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 25 | Birthdays , in the modern sense , were rarely recorded in the early Middle Ages : it was the " heavenly birthdays " ( the earthly death-days ) of saints and martyrs that were celebrated in liturgies . |
| 26 | Cases of strangles were rarely reported in the ‘ 60 's and ‘ 70's but the disease appears to be seen more often these days . |
| 27 | Just a fortnight previously on a black day for rugby , Gareth Chilcott , the Bath and England prop , was sent off at Gloucester for punching and , in another league match , two Richmond forwards were badly injured in the game with Rugby at the Athletic Ground . |
| 28 | Scores of buildings including the Europa — Europe 's most bombed hotel — and the Grand Opera House were badly damaged in the 1,000lb blast . |
| 29 | Both of these were badly damaged in the War . |
| 30 | The building 's first floor , roof and contents were badly damaged in the fire . |