Example sentences of "were [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze . |
| 2 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 3 | Pieces of buttered toast were arranged in a regular pattern on a silver dish — four slices awaiting their crowning with four perfect eggs . |
| 4 | She first confirmed Watson 's hypothesis that in the tobacco mosaic virus small protein sub-units were arranged in a helical fashion . |
| 5 | The shimmering folds of the nets were arranged in a looping canopy above where the musicians played , and effected a startling , glowing paleness in the untidy gloom of the attic . |
| 6 | Subconfluent monolayers remained attached to coverslips , which were placed in a small chamber ( vol 2 ml ) and visualised on the stage of a Nikon ( Diaphot ) inverted microscope with Hoffmann modulated optics ( ×400 magnification ) . |
| 7 | They were placed in a gentle curve , about twenty traps in all , facing the outgoing tide . |
| 8 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 9 | Most of the civilians , eventually totalling some 6,000 , were placed in a separate camp next to the main military encampment at Viktring . |
| 10 | This involved regular water changes after the tank had been completely stripped and cleaned , charcoal filtration , while the worst cases were placed in a warm ( 78°C ) well-aerated hospital tank with an antibiotic powder ( Oxytetracyclin ) as a last ditch attempt to save them . |
| 11 | Landsats 1–3 were placed in a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 910 km . |
| 12 | The staff were placed in a reserved occupation and not allowed to join the armed forces . |
| 13 | One or two lkg slices were placed in a special tray at the top of the familiar airline catering trolleys which were then transported in unrefrigerated vehicles to the aircraft . |
| 14 | Rulers who were kings in their own right were placed in a subordinate ‘ feudal ’ relationship to the kings of France as a result of their continental inheritance . |
| 15 | They were placed in a large room with about thirty men . |
| 16 | They were placed in a mature planted tank on their own with a dense cloud of daphnia ( as security and food ) , along with twenty tadpoles . |
| 17 | These agents were given in a total voluem of 1.5 ml , a 0.5 ml bolus injection , followed by a continuous infusion of 1 ml over a one hour period . |
| 18 | Holly saw the confusion of the guards ' officers and NCOs , the way that instructions were given in a frantic pitch and confronted by the sullen amusement of the zeks . |
| 19 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 20 | An experiment was once performed where the acids were heated in a dry state to 150°F , to be immersed in warm water later . |
| 21 | potatoes and then they were boiled in a big boiler . |
| 22 | Although those terrifying Latin countries were building in a classical style by then , England preferred her own flights of fancy . |
| 23 | Double-distilled water ( milli-Q quality ) and ARISTAR grade reagents were used throughout ; all immunostaining procedures were undertaken in a closed container to minimize airborne contamination . |
| 24 | These were undertaken in a fundamental research program that set out to compare various models proposed for a CAD system . |
| 25 | The children in the formal classrooms were taught in a traditional way by teachers who were backed by decades of formality . |
| 26 | The English were taught in a different school to the Chinese . |
| 27 | Inhumations were treated in a similar fashion , with some details of the grave , but only late in his career did Leeds provide plans of individual inhumations . |
| 28 | The interviewees stated that all patients were treated in a similar manner regardless of the size of their habit and that the quantity of methadone and the length of time it was given were inadequate . |
| 29 | At one hospital alone almost 300 children were treated in a single marathon session entitled ‘ Light Relief ’ . |
| 30 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |