Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] out in the " in BNC.

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1 Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final .
2 Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building .
3 The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century .
4 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
5 But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men .
6 Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found .
7 Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study .
8 These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex .
9 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
10 Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 .
11 Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth .
12 One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine .
13 Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest .
14 All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name .
15 He 's in one of those Victorian institutions that were built out in the countryside so the inmates would n't contaminate decent citizens .
16 We were wiped out in the scrum and in the line-out .
17 If those paper debts were wiped out in the computer that prints your monthly statement , would it make any difference in real terms to anyone else ?
18 At the same time the ethical requirements were spelt out in the Ten Commandments and other laws .
19 Stewart slipped on the wicketkeeping gloves when Russell took a day 's sick leave with a stomach upset , and the final three sessions were played out in the usual no-prospects eeriness , which was heightened by the horrors of the evening before .
20 PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks .
21 Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together .
22 We were called out in the middle of the night to man the Bund ( a sort of wide wall that encircled the entire camp ) .
23 Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism .
24 A cynic among us suggested the people were brought out in the early morning for the tourists to snap their unlikely habitat .
25 And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there .
26 They were laid out in the formal style 300 years ago by James II 's gardener , Guillaume Beaumont .
27 The victims were laid out in the churches to be claimed by relatives , many , reportedly , still showing a spark of life which was ignored in the general rush to clear up .
28 The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal .
29 For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) .
30 The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century .
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