Example sentences of "were [vb pp] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 2 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 3 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 4 | From the Romans the French learned great fruit-growing skills which were developed in the monasteries . |
| 5 | It was against expectations and conceptions such as these that two of the early surveys were developed in the United States — the market research survey and the pre-election poll . |
| 6 | While at Charlton Works , they were repainted in the L.C.C . |
| 7 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 8 | Staggered vertical timbers were erected in the trench , probably with horizontal members between the verticals ; stakes were placed in a line down the centre between the verticals to hold the intervening panels of daubed wattles . |
| 9 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 10 | On 24 January , when Algiers learned of Massu 's fate , a general strike was called and barricades were erected in the streets . |
| 11 | When the weaving stage of manufacture was finally adapted to steam power , mills were erected in the hillside villages alongside the homes of the workforce . |
| 12 | When [ in 1990 ] the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and its director were indicted in the Mapplethorpe case and needed money for their defence , we raised about $50,000 for them in about two days . |
| 13 | ‘ We had time booked , songs were arranged in the studio and I was writing lyrics on the day they sang them . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the active County Federation of WEA Branches and the collective strength of the members in the established branches such as Northampton , Kettering , Raunds , Rushden and Wellingborough ensured continuity of Tutorial Classes and other WEA courses and about thirty classes were arranged in the county in each year throughout the decade . |
| 15 | They were arranged in the form of a great flattened disc . |
| 16 | No underwriters were listed in the filing . |
| 17 | The great sun god had many forms and names , seventy-four of which were listed in the Litany of Re , a text which was inscribed in the entrances of royal tombs of the New Kingdom . |
| 18 | More useful is my enumeration of persons who were listed in the Hue and Cry , a biweekly bulletin published by the police . |
| 19 | The two sculpted figures that flank the entrance symbolize holiness and wisdom ( la pietà e la sapienza ) and were completed in the mid-seventeenth-century by the sculptor Giovan Battista Casella . |
| 20 | IT TOOK an average of 106 months to build the six nuclear power stations that were completed in the US last year . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many dwellings for general needs housing were completed in the Monmouth constituency by Monmouth borough council and by housing associations in 1981 and 1991 . |
| 22 | Only 35 houses were completed in the area in the last year yet the survey revealed 522 households needing different or additional accommodation within five years . |
| 23 | The key messages of our submission to DTI were publicised in the AEA Times bulletin . |
| 24 | Gerald Kingsland 's exploits on the island were immortalised in the film Castaway . |
| 25 | One social services source told Sunday Life : ‘ The RUC was given all the names of boys who were placed in the home between 1981 and 1983 and they are trying to track them all down . |
| 26 | To mark the Golden Jubilee in 1937 and on the occasion of its Consecration by Bishop Poskitt , 50 years to the day after its opening , three new marble altars dedicated to the Sacred Heart , Our Lady and St Patrick were placed in the church . |
| 27 | That 's how they were placed in the position you see . |
| 28 | Plastic Grids were placed in the bottom of the main vat to stop the fish from being sucked into the pump inlet . |
| 29 | Amongst the Phoenicians live infants were placed in the arms of a idol , and died in the flames burning inside it . |
| 30 | Instead , from now on all ‘ heroes ' deaths ’ were placed in the newspapers under a uniform heading at the top of the columns , reading : ‘ For Führer , People , and Reich gave their lives … ’ |