Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 32 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 33 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 34 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 35 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 36 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 37 | It 's important again that we were seen around in the business community . |
| 38 | The classroom observations ( see 1a ) were written up in the form of case studies , to include descriptive accounts of the pupil 's microcomputer use , teachers ' class organisation and intervention occurrences . |
| 39 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 40 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 41 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 42 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 43 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 44 | He 's in one of those Victorian institutions that were built out in the countryside so the inmates would n't contaminate decent citizens . |
| 45 | We were wiped out in the scrum and in the line-out . |
| 46 | If those paper debts were wiped out in the computer that prints your monthly statement , would it make any difference in real terms to anyone else ? |
| 47 | More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years . |
| 48 | At the same time the ethical requirements were spelt out in the Ten Commandments and other laws . |
| 49 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 50 | Stewart slipped on the wicketkeeping gloves when Russell took a day 's sick leave with a stomach upset , and the final three sessions were played out in the usual no-prospects eeriness , which was heightened by the horrors of the evening before . |
| 51 | Yes and then they 've were forked up in the carts , what the bogeys are nowadays , and then they would have made stacks and stack yet . |
| 52 | He took his senior men aside at lunchtime for a tour d'horizon on ‘ the wider implications of the project for European unity , and when the Cabinet resumed matters of cost and technical detail which had caused objections that morning were swallowed up in the wider prime ministerial perspective ’ . |
| 53 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 54 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 55 | Brothers Ernest and Michael Robinson of Thompson Grove , Hartlepool , were bound over in the sum of £100 to keep the peace for six months after a fight with another man in York Road . |
| 56 | PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks . |
| 57 | The rest were locked up in the car which was illegally parked below . |
| 58 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 59 | On any day there was a great advantage in arriving at the Board of Trade early , for people were called up in the order in which they handed in their cards . |
| 60 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |