Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On other days of the week he had fixed luncheon dates which , because of his crowded schedule and not infrequent trips abroad , were arranged well in advance . |
| 2 | Recipes , for example , were arranged alphabetically in sections , with ingredients , prices , weights , and cooking times all precisely stated , on the basis of tests carried out by the author in her own kitchen . |
| 3 | Altogether some 2,500 animal species and 35,000 plants were listed either in Appendix I or Appendix II ; the Kyoto meeting added a further 45 and approved the upgrading of protection for some 35 species transferred to the Appendix 1 list . |
| 4 | Several aspects of French Country Cooking were roughed out in pencil by Bobby and then worked over in ink by Minton and imprinted with his own personal style . |
| 5 | Even though substantial orders were placed well in advance with the trade for some of these items the general pressure of demand was such that deliveries to RAFAMACS were delayed . |
| 6 | A month later , it was resolved that a proper place should be provided for the Professor 's dissections and lectures , and advertisements were placed accordingly in publications including the Morning Post and the Daily Advertiser . |
| 7 | The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes . |
| 8 | All too popular with passing children at the show , the balloons were given away in return for a small donation to the Sports Council . |
| 9 | Consequently , text corpora were limited both in size and availability . |
| 10 | Though his proposals were whittled down in Congress , the Revenue Act of 1921 and later measures provided for big tax cuts on high personal incomes and the removal of the excess profit tax . |
| 11 | I think the druids were clad mainly in woad . ’ |
| 12 | When the codes of practice were revised recently in response to strong pressure from the police , the guidance was made slightly less restrictive by removing the statement that reasonable suspicion should be no less than the suspicion required to effect arrest without warrant . |
| 13 | At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto . |
| 14 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 15 | By this time , fuel and crew costs had made them uneconomic , and despite rumours that they were to be transferred to Bispham , they were broken up in Marton Depot by 1963 , all except one car . |
| 16 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 17 | Both of the patients who were diagnosed late in life had the abnormal antibodies in their blood for several years before the condition became obvious . |
| 18 | According to British observers , rules were altered occasionally in mid-flight with protests from the French flying as thickly as English arrows at Agincourt . |
| 19 | Omi 's old head was bowed and her gnarled fingers were pressed together in prayer . |
| 20 | Saturday was jam packed : we were flown around in helicopters , transported in army trucks and taught abseiling . |
| 21 | His eyes were squeezed tight in agony , and he and the other three men locked in the shafts grunted loudly with exertion as they strove to get the heavy carts rolling again . |
| 22 | Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving . |
| 23 | Twenty one years later it passed to his son-in-law , Mark Rainsford I , whose beers and fine ales were brewed here in turn by his son Mark Rainsford II . |
| 24 | They were picked up in London , Essex , Hertfordshire , Bedfordshire , Bucks , Dorset , and Newcastle . |
| 25 | While Eloise was sailed round to Holyhead with a prize crew from the cutters on board , more arrests were being made around the country and suspects were picked up in Sussex , Dorset , London , South Wales and County Durham . |
| 26 | For it was in St Jude 's Passage that such corpses as were picked up in Frizingley — whether they had been reported missing or not — were usually found . |
| 27 | peace signs and Anarchy symbols were picked out in steel studs . |
| 28 | After 1933 , too , the ferocious personal enmities and political conflicts within the Nazi élite , which otherwise would have torn the system apart , were resolved only in Hitler 's own charismatic authority — in his indisputable position as the base of Nazism 's popular legitimacy and the embodiment of Nazism 's ‘ idea ’ . |
| 29 | At the Salon des Indépendants all these artists were grouped together in Salle 45 , together with the work of Morgan Russel and MacDonald Wright , who called themselves ‘ Synchromists ’ and somewhat pretentiously purported to be representatives of a new school which was to be the culmination of all European painting ; they were , in fact , rapidly absorbed into the more vital Orphist movement . |
| 30 | Incubation of PABA-UDCA disulphate with cholyglycine hydrolase were carried out in accordance with the method described by Nair . |