Example sentences of "were [verb] together [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way .
2 The quarters were pressed together in a compressed air jig , and then placed on a bench and the panels , mouldings and windows fitted to them .
3 In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper .
4 Often three different types of roof — pyramid , hip , and gable — were included together with a wide variety of dormers in the upper storey .
5 The packet contained two smaller packets — one blue , one white , which were mixed together in a tumbler of water .
6 We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating .
7 The girls ' typing desks were pushed together into a fortified ghetto behind the stacked boxes .
8 The accused and that person were acting together in a dishonest enterprise .
9 It is thanks to these men of ability and vision that the deaf communities in Britain became so well established and respected , and that the deaf communities were drawn together into a national movement which after a false start exists to this day in the British Deaf Association .
10 The various laws relating to incitement to racial hatred hitherto scattered in such diverse places as the Public Order Act 1936 ( as amended ) the Theatres Act 1968 and the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 were drawn together in a single Act .
11 His brows were drawn together in a frown , his face still ; the reflected light from the brazier made his fairness ruddy that was usually so pale and clear , but even so the likeness was extreme .
12 They were crowded together in a corner , their tails pointing the same way .
13 But this was not a justification for the dissolution of an association of this kind ; the different republics and nationalities were bound together by a common history , by ties of marriage and settlement , and by the trade that they conducted with each other .
14 They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 .
15 Drawn with the ‘ open ’ Europe of 1993 in mind , it shows how some major cities of medieval Europe were bound together in a network of trade and travel .
16 There were other ways of arriving at much the same conclusion but one logical consequence was that the non-biblical " gentiles " and the " savages " were lumped together as a kind of historical residue of " first men " .
17 Whether a compiler is a quality product soon becomes evident , and with some there is the suspicion that they were cobbled together as a response to opposition product innovations .
18 These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school .
19 This was in Kenya where the Ministry of Education 's special centres in English , mathematics and science were brought together into a Curriculum Development Centre in 1966 and the whole amalgamated with the Kenya Institute of Education , a non-university body which co-ordinated standards in teacher education in 1968 .
20 On the contrary , according to the Middle East International of Feb. 22 , in the occupied territories the supporters of the PLO and those of its rival , the strongly Islamic Hamas , were brought together by a blend of secular nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism similar to that achieved by the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein .
21 The photographs were taken over a period of ten years , and eventually they were brought together in a book in 1960 ; ten of the book 's essays originally appeared in Vogue , where the appealing mix of an artist 's conversation along with Liberman 's descriptions and commentary succeeded well .
22 That study and other environmental studies commissioned by the Cardiff Bay development corporation and South Glamorgan county council were brought together in a detailed environmental impact assessment by Liverpool university .
23 Their days and nights were spent together in a large but gloomy chamber , reached by a winding staircase ; and their requests to take the air in the gardens were for the most part ignored .
24 The other dead men are David Russell , 22 , of Lochgelly , and Graham Spence , 39 , of Crosshill , who were travelling together in a white transit .
25 To obtain maximum depletion , beads and cells were spun together at a ratio of 5:1 in two successive rounds .
26 The transparencies were delivered together with a copy of the plaintiffs ' standard terms .
27 Budgie was a great part and I loved playing Frank Carver in Love Hurts erm and I did n't when when I was asked to do i , well w actually i it was n't a series , the writers and I were put together by a man called Alan who 's now my partner in Alfie as well he 's and he asked me why was n't I working and would he would I mind being put together with the two writers .
28 A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed .
29 They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny .
30 One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook .
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