Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace glanced around , noting the clay bottles and pots sealed with wax that were stacked together in rickety cupboards . |
| 2 | Within seconds of each other , the two remaining freighters were ripped apart in great swathes of flame , sending white hot metal and sprays of burning oil through the cavern . |
| 3 | The electronic versions of these documents might be crucial if the historians wanted to understand how the documents were developed especially in those environments where cooperative work software or groupware had been used to enhance the performance of those producing documents . |
| 4 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 5 | Similar xenoliths were recognized elsewhere in southern African and Siberia . |
| 6 | More details of this notation were given above in 13.3.4 . |
| 7 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 8 | As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him . |
| 9 | The dining tables were tucked away in high-sided compartments like old-fashioned church pews . |
| 10 | because if I might say so disabled people were treated oddly in those days , they are not er , erm people I think were a bit er diffident about making contact with them and erm , a lot of people would n't erm , you know , give you a hand if you were |
| 11 | Fifteen wickets were to go down in all that day , and although Gooch and Robinson made a sound start , once they were separated the procession continued as normal . |
| 12 | By the nineteenth century the church was almost in ruins , for only its sturdy medieval tower remained intact ; the whole building was restored in 1838 when fragments of the ancient structure were patched together in new walls . |
| 13 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 14 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began a visit to the Soviet Union on Nov. 6 and announced the re-establishment of consular relations which were broken off in 1956 . |
| 15 | These patients were managed conservatively and subsequently strictures were dilated adequately in all . |
| 16 | More impressive still was the menu in the college dining-room , something which the salivating Mutahhar singles out for special praise : ‘ Pheasants , partridges , herons , fish , roasted fowl , grilled kids , fried loaves , brightly-coloured sweets of different kinds and other good things were heaped everywhere in large quantities . ’ |
| 17 | Those themes , some of which are very clear within the document , others were hidden away in 1983 and have become more important since then . |
| 18 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 19 | In fact the hade of Fleming 's Vein is nowhere regular as the miners were to find out in due course . |
| 20 | And that is how we set off , arm-in-arm , down Sunningdale Drive past Sussex Gardens where the bowls players were dying slowly in well-pressed whites , towards the London Road . |
| 21 | These were located mostly in two areas — launcher rockets ( primarily the Ariane programme ) , accounting for 50 per cent of the workforce and satellites for 45 per cent . |
| 22 | These were located mainly in rural areas and in smaller market towns where conservative practices inherited from the past stood a better chance of survival . |
| 23 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 24 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 25 | Several other minor , and apparently random , streets were also found in this area when flood prevention works were carried out in 1970 . |
| 26 | The two trials were carried out in adjacent populations in West Africa ; one looked in detail at the effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and the other at its effect on mortality . |
| 27 | Even the ever-amiable Roger Moore fell out with Broccolli after discovering that secret auditions to find a replacement for Moore as Bond were carried out in 1980 . |
| 28 | The sheriff of Cumberland received orders to see that the Council 's commands were carried out in all respects . |
| 29 | Both endoscopic ultrasound and computed tomography were carried out in all patients . |
| 30 | Necropsies were carried out in 474 ( 98% ) of the 485 cases attributed to sudden infant death syndrome . |