Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel . |
| 2 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 3 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 4 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 5 | In the course of the project , assessment materials were developed in a variety of modes . |
| 6 | Milton 's ideas , for instance , were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life . |
| 7 | From the Romans the French learned great fruit-growing skills which were developed in the monasteries . |
| 8 | It was against expectations and conceptions such as these that two of the early surveys were developed in the United States — the market research survey and the pre-election poll . |
| 9 | While at Charlton Works , they were repainted in the L.C.C . |
| 10 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 11 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 12 | Staggered vertical timbers were erected in the trench , probably with horizontal members between the verticals ; stakes were placed in a line down the centre between the verticals to hold the intervening panels of daubed wattles . |
| 13 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 14 | On 24 January , when Algiers learned of Massu 's fate , a general strike was called and barricades were erected in the streets . |
| 15 | When the weaving stage of manufacture was finally adapted to steam power , mills were erected in the hillside villages alongside the homes of the workforce . |
| 16 | When [ in 1990 ] the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and its director were indicted in the Mapplethorpe case and needed money for their defence , we raised about $50,000 for them in about two days . |
| 17 | Pastel walls formed a tasteful background to a selection of mounted Sara Moon prints , fresh flowers were arranged in a crystal vase , and there was a pink shade on the small desk lamp . |
| 18 | In the front window was a display of paint-brushes which were arranged in a fan . |
| 19 | ‘ We had time booked , songs were arranged in the studio and I was writing lyrics on the day they sang them . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the active County Federation of WEA Branches and the collective strength of the members in the established branches such as Northampton , Kettering , Raunds , Rushden and Wellingborough ensured continuity of Tutorial Classes and other WEA courses and about thirty classes were arranged in the county in each year throughout the decade . |
| 21 | They were arranged in the form of a great flattened disc . |
| 22 | As far as the primary phase of schooling was concerned , the plan of development favoured the same activities as were listed in A Framework for the School Curriculum , except that more attention was devoted to history and geography , to expressive arts , and to science , and to the need for clearly structured and progressively demanding work in these areas of the curriculum . |
| 23 | No underwriters were listed in the filing . |
| 24 | The great sun god had many forms and names , seventy-four of which were listed in the Litany of Re , a text which was inscribed in the entrances of royal tombs of the New Kingdom . |
| 25 | More useful is my enumeration of persons who were listed in the Hue and Cry , a biweekly bulletin published by the police . |
| 26 | The book also records the 1972 National Federation of Fish Friers conference at the Park Hotel , Tynemouth , where the president 's banquet and ball cost £2.50 and delegates were entrailed in a debate about what to do with chicken giblets . |
| 27 | The new group — ‘ the Disestablishment ’ as they were christened in a series of articles in the Financial Times — was highly fluid . |
| 28 | The two sculpted figures that flank the entrance symbolize holiness and wisdom ( la pietà e la sapienza ) and were completed in the mid-seventeenth-century by the sculptor Giovan Battista Casella . |
| 29 | IT TOOK an average of 106 months to build the six nuclear power stations that were completed in the US last year . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many dwellings for general needs housing were completed in the Monmouth constituency by Monmouth borough council and by housing associations in 1981 and 1991 . |