Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 2 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 3 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began a visit to the Soviet Union on Nov. 6 and announced the re-establishment of consular relations which were broken off in 1956 . |
| 4 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 5 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 6 | Several other minor , and apparently random , streets were also found in this area when flood prevention works were carried out in 1970 . |
| 7 | The two trials were carried out in adjacent populations in West Africa ; one looked in detail at the effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and the other at its effect on mortality . |
| 8 | Even the ever-amiable Roger Moore fell out with Broccolli after discovering that secret auditions to find a replacement for Moore as Bond were carried out in 1980 . |
| 9 | The sheriff of Cumberland received orders to see that the Council 's commands were carried out in all respects . |
| 10 | Both endoscopic ultrasound and computed tomography were carried out in all patients . |
| 11 | Necropsies were carried out in 474 ( 98% ) of the 485 cases attributed to sudden infant death syndrome . |
| 12 | Where individual dwellings have intermediate floors , these were carried out in traditional timber joisted construction , the joists being hung from the new masonry cross-walls on joist-hangers . |
| 13 | Direct field observations of professional and paraprofessional social service personnel at work and in training were carried out in each country . |
| 14 | On hepatocytes — binding studies on whole cells were carried out in 24 well cluster trays . |
| 15 | No measurements of protein synthesis in individual tissues or intestinal mucosa were carried out in these studies , however . |
| 16 | Clostridium difficile toxin assays , biopsy examination and culture for mycobacteria and immunohistochemical detection of herpes virus and cytomegalovirus in biopsy specimens were carried out in particular cases . |
| 17 | House searches were carried out in 40 locations throughout Germany , and firearms , ammunition and neo-Nazi propaganda seized . |
| 18 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
| 19 | Hybridisations resulting in the autoradiographs of Figures 1 and 5 were carried out in 3 saline sodium phosphate ( SSPE ) , 10% dextran sulphate , 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulphate ( SDS ) , Denhardt 's and 100 µg/ml sonicated salmon sperm DNA at 65°C overnight . |
| 20 | In over 60 countries the courts gave out death sentences , which were carried out in more than half these countries . |
| 21 | Until now , all sub-nuclear experiments to test such theories were carried out in huge accelerators with diameters of 10 kilometres or more . |
| 22 | Public and private sector managers alike were caught up in wider social systems . |
| 23 | They would believe that all these people were caught up in this satanic net . |
| 24 | Again , I do not think that individuals are to be blamed for this : whole societies were caught up in this sexist interpretation of reality . |
| 25 | The most illustrious names in retailing from the House of Fraser to Macy 's and Bloomingdale 's were caught up in leveraged and management buyouts . |
| 26 | Native Germans were pushed out in 1947 , their place taken by immigrants from the east . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |