Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 2 | The long established working class were rehoused on a massive scale , but many were stacked in tower blocks : the numbers of Council flats in England and Wales built fifteen or more storeys from the ground rose from 8 in 1955 to 17,351 in 1965 . |
| 3 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 4 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 5 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 6 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 7 | The rootstocks were developed at government research stations and are still known by their reference numbers . |
| 8 | Later , new ports were developed at Sunderland Point and Glasson for larger ships than could negotiate the estuary as far as Lancaster itself . |
| 9 | After exposure , the slides were developed in Ilford Phenprint at 18°C , fixed in Ilford Hypam fixative , and counterstained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 10 | Slides were developed in diamino benzadine-hydrogen peroxide ( DAB ) in Tris buffer for 5 minutes , then washed in tap water . |
| 11 | Many northern cities , including New Delhi , were paralysed by rioting students and in many instances curfews were imposed and the Army called in to restore order . |
| 12 | Over two thousand Bailey bridges were erected in north-west Europe between June 1944 and May 1945 and the design was also used extensively in Italy and the Far East . |
| 13 | Correlation coefficients were calculated as Spearman rank correlations and comparison between the two methods by the sign test . |
| 14 | As the resultant percentages within groups were not always normally distributed , group medians were calculated with 95% confidence intervals ( derived by the Wilcoxon method ) and comparison was made between groups using the two tailed Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 15 | Percentages of identity and similarity between proteins in the multiple alignments were calculated with program DISTANCES ( 22 ) . |
| 16 | Accordingly , difference and Sim-weighted Fourier maps phased from the protein model were calculated at 20–4Å resolution , and inspected using the computer graphics program FRODO . |
| 17 | The solid emptying half life and percentage retentions at 60 minutes were calculated by exponential interpolation with as many surrounding points as appropriate . |
| 18 | Correlation coefficients were calculated by Spearman rank correlation test and , in selected instances , the chi square test . |
| 19 | Five police officers in New York City were indicted on murder charges in March , following the death of a 21-year-old Hispanic man on Feb. 5 . |
| 20 | But the majority of classes were arranged at District branches and the statistics are considered representative of the proportion of occupational groups within the District . |
| 21 | A competition with a Hebridean holiday as a prize was run in conjunction with the exhibition , a more specialized competition for schools was organized with support from the Royal Bank of Scotland , and private views were arranged for specialist bodies and organizations . |
| 22 | It was performed by the combined bands , drums and fifes , and some two hundred and fifty soldiers from thirty infantry regiments as well as a corps de ballet whose dances were arranged by Lucia Cormani . |
| 23 | The training programmes that were available were arranged by government departments and took various forms : basic courses over nine or ten evenings ; one-day conferences on government information regarding grants , subsidies , etc. ; conferences on plant protection and disease control , field studies and some practical courses . |
| 24 | The visits were arranged by Peel Park Training Officer Alastair Marshall who is a member of the school board at Williamwood . |
| 25 | All nursing and medical procedures were explained to Mr Reynolds and he was asked his preferences wherever possible . |
| 26 | The benefits , based on the use of breeding indices to select sires and dams with high breeding values , were explained by Dr Geoff Simm of the Scottish Agricultural College , citing results from the SAC Langhill herd , Edinburgh . |
| 27 | Several species of the mammalia were explained by Mr. Reid , amongst which was a new variety of Felis [ cat ] , named F. Darwinnia , with several opossums . |
| 28 | IT 'S strange but true : the earliest ancestors of the video camcorder are to be found in holes deep below ground which were inhabited by cave dwellers long before the dawn of recorded history . |
| 29 | In 1786 ‘ Kepplewhite & Son ’ ( sic ) were listed in Lowndes London directory at 48 Redcross Street . |
| 30 | Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century . |