Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 32 | Murray and McKean were written off in many quarters after the disappointment of Barcelona — Murray finished eighth after starting favourite , McKean failed to reach the final — and the pair went to Toronto with their careers at the crossroads . |
| 33 | Brixton itself was one of only two colleges which had nationally recognized diplomas in the field ( it was one of only four specialist institutions in the field ) , and as a member of the School he experienced the ‘ shock of rejection ’ , when its degree proposals were turned down in 1967–68 . |
| 34 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 35 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 36 | Corpora were built up in each case to over 10,000 words , then domain-specific collocation dictionaries compiled using the method described earlier . |
| 37 | Although some excellent bookstocks were built up in this manner , the disadvantages of such a system are clear . |
| 38 | When the ‘ phoney war ’ ended and British aircraft were shot down in larger numbers , the camp became too small to hold all aircrew prisoners . |
| 39 | They were shot down in cold blood with their friends , by the KGB . ’ |
| 40 | For the last six hours , the girls were operated on in separate theatres . |
| 41 | The two reactors were closed down in 1990 . |
| 42 | 12 Finished Wallow barrow & Hawes water so that the thirty plates were got through in 36 days or 5 weeks . |
| 43 | After a storm they were washed back in dozens , but most of them were broken or half ground to powder . |
| 44 | Pensioners Jim and Yolanda Byrne say they were told back in 1951 that they would only have to stay in their Liverpool maisonette for six months . |
| 45 | Pensioners Jim and Yolanda Byrne say they were told back in 1951 that they would only have to stay in their Liverpool maisonette for six months . |
| 46 | Both guitars share Mr. Donahue 's preferred neck profile , medium-deep and noticeably ‘ V ’ shaped , not unlike the ones Fender were turning out in late ‘ 56 and ‘ 57 . |
| 47 | Flush from her victory over Austria , Prussia could easily have imposed the terms for the North German Federation on her partners , and indeed proposals were drawn up in 1866 for a union ‘ based on Prussian characteristics ’ . |
| 48 | They did not express community , clustered around the green and church , in the adventitious manner of the true village ; they were drawn up in parallel lines to each side of the road . |
| 49 | The hospital had a commitment to shared care with the patient and patient 's relatives and care plans were drawn up in full consultation with both . |
| 50 | The cavalry were drawn up in three companies , on the wings and in the centre . |
| 51 | An estimated 250 people were shown round in 11 tours , leaving the guides footsore and hoarse ! |
| 52 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 53 | The Light Blues had a half-length lead at the Old Ship but with Gardiner setting an excellent rhythm , and with Davy , Maclennan and Bridge backing magnificently , Oxford were holding on in flat water . |
| 54 | Fears of a revival of the Cultural Revolution were borne out in some local areas where over-zealous and ‘ leftist ’ oriented cadres interpreted the words of the Party directives too literally , trying to eliminate anything new which had come about since the open-door policy was introduced . |
| 55 | I mean if you , in the agricultural depression of the nineteen thirties , that 's a depression that lasted erm , the best part of a decade , you know , but farmers did n't go out of production you know , for about five , six , seven years down the line , because virtually all of their assets were tied up in fixed assets . |
| 56 | The men stayed all day with the family , who were tied up in different bedrooms , calmly eating and watching television as the hours ticked by . |
| 57 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 58 | One of the 8 Group airfields , I think it was Graveley , had had FIDO burners installed along each side of the main runway — that is , ‘ Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation ’ — consisting of pipelines of oil which were lit up in foggy conditions . |
| 59 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |
| 60 | Pain and need were rising up in equal measure to swamp him , and he knew he did n't have what it took to turn away from her . |