Example sentences of "and were [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | Returned to office in 1957 and 1961 , he and his party came under severe UK and US pressure and were defeated in the 1964 elections ( the last before independence in 1966 ; see pp. 19841 ; 21428 ) . |
| 3 | She sent the first correct solution selected and knew that the teams this century who appeared in FA Cup finals and were relegated in the same season were Brighton ( 1983 ) , Leicester ( 1969 ) , Manchester City ( 1926 ) and Chelsea ( 1915 ) |
| 4 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 5 | Leaflets calling for this protest action had gone out in the name of the underground organization Mwakenya , and were echoed in a BBC World Service broadcast by the exiled writer Ngugi wa Thiongo , but workers were urged by the official Central Organization of Trade Unions to ignore the " seditious leaflets " , and commentators noted an understandable reluctance to identify openly with Mwakenya by supporting its strike call . |
| 6 | Any of the casuals who showed signs of being genuinely ill were referred to the medical officer and were treated in the infirmary . |
| 7 | It welcomed the new ideas in La Fille Mal Gardée because the characters portrayed were familiar and were living in the farms and vineyards . |
| 8 | The cars loaded in Talbot Square by the side of the Clifton Hotel , which was also the terminus of the Marton route , and were shedded in an enlarged Marton depot . |
| 9 | Some of the components of ‘ North Star ’ survived and were incorporated in a non-working replica built for the Stockton and Darlington centenary . |
| 10 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 11 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 12 | Men went down with two or three of the beasts ripping at them ; others fell overboard and were killed in a froth of churning water . |
| 13 | Two new trainees joined the programme and were instructed in the preparation of base-maps from aerial photographs and photogeological interpretation . |
| 14 | The Reverend Bert Jones , a minister in the United Reformed CHurch , and Miles Cooper were among a dozen hunt saboteurs who witnessed the scene and were invoved in a skirmish afterwards . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | C Company were the UK Key Company for Exercise Avenue Express , and were based in the coastal town of Hofoaek , fifty kilometres west of Copenhagen . |
| 17 | They came through a rugged training session yesterday and were named in a Test side that contains nine Englishmen , four Scots and only one from Ireland and Wales . |
| 18 | All had several days ' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing . |
| 19 | ‘ Try a window , ’ shouted someone , and within a matter of minutes two men had stout stakes and were breaking in the ground-floor windows . |
| 20 | These reverberated throughout the labour movement at the time , and were reawakened in the 1984–5 dispute . |
| 21 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 22 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 23 | Where the words were , as in this case , descriptive words and were used in a descriptive sense , a trade mark was not affected . |
| 24 | Pygmy Chain Swords are low-growing , and were used in the foreground , and Java Fern grows attached to bogwood . |
| 25 | They made employment for a workforce and were used in the work of other occupations ; but mainly they were used for recreation . |
| 26 | The member States were external to the Council , and were included in the prohibition against taking instructions from external governments or powers . |
| 27 | Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon had been influenced by the demonstration at the Indépendants , and were included in the Cubist room at the Salon d'Automne . |
| 28 | The bussed consignment of grooms had arrived and were sitting in a group wearing Race Train T-shirts above their jeans . |
| 29 | They 'd finished dinner and were sitting in the study together . |
| 30 | Images from Picasso 's eternally popular Vollard Suite , which dates from the early 1930s , bring between £8,000 and £12,000 plus — but these , though easy to like because of their smooth neo-classical style , are not coloured and were published in a fairly big edition . |