Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 2 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 3 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 4 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 7 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 8 | The single cards too were placed variously in the top half , bottom half and crossing the central strip . |
| 9 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 10 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 11 | The deficit reduction targets outlined in April 1989 [ see above ] were revised upwards in the budget to account for higher interest payments . |
| 12 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 13 | The thirty-seven canal companies who in 1825 were barely meeting their expenses were situated mostly in the south , in which region most of the unwise ventures of the boom period were concentrated . |
| 14 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 15 | While the principles for a Catholic ecumenism were formulated principally in the decree specifically devoted to this , all the other main documents of the Council — most notably the two dogmatic constitutions and the Declaration on Religious Freedom — were profoundly affected by this concern . |
| 16 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 17 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 18 | Germany , the principal ex-enemy state , lying at the heart of Europe , presented complex problems in 1945 , not least because it was placed under joint occupation by the Big Three and France who were joined together in an Allied Control Council . |
| 19 | Two ministers were dismissed later in the year for criticizing government actions : the Information and Broadcasting Minister , Waruru Kanja , in April ( replaced by Nahashion Kanyi ) , and the Agriculture Minister Maina Wanjigi , in June ( replaced by Elijah Mwangale ) . |
| 20 | As with so many of Eliot 's apparently portentous remarks , I fancy that they were uttered partly in a quizzical manner , and that the mock solemnity was intended to convey the idea of a conspiratorial ritual . |
| 21 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 22 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 23 | The quarters were pressed together in a compressed air jig , and then placed on a bench and the panels , mouldings and windows fitted to them . |
| 24 | There is some evidence that the coefficients on expected returns were biased downwards in the OLS equation . |
| 25 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |
| 26 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 27 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 28 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 29 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 30 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |