Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death . |
| 2 | This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper . |
| 3 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 4 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 5 | Philip Miller 's appreciation was summed up in the Abridgement of 1754 , where he considered roses to have |
| 6 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 7 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 8 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 9 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 10 | A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 . |
| 11 | This study was carried out in a range of locations and tenures , and tested people 's awareness of energy saving products , conservation measures , and novel types of energy technology using ambient energy ( eg solar collectors ) , all rated against their costs of installation , running and maintenance . |
| 12 | The study was carried out in the West Berkshire and the Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities . |
| 13 | The volunteers fasted overnight , or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 14 | The volunteers fasted overnight or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 15 | When Otis Griffith 's car was written off in an accident , he was able to relax and let someone else fight his legal battle for compensation , thanks to a little preplanning |
| 16 | It 's only 3 months since her car was written off in an accident on the A34 in Oxfordshire ; an accident in which she was lucky to escape with her life . |
| 17 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 18 | Each tape was made up in a random order with the constraint that no two junctions of the same type should appear in consecutive positions within any block . |
| 19 | Swinburn was knocked down in a late night incident in Newmarket a month ago — and rates himself lucky to be riding again at all . |
| 20 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 21 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 22 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 23 | The Southampton defender was caught up in the passion of Boro 's FA Cup-tie at Portsmouth last week . |
| 24 | There were tears on the old man 's face and his mouth was drawn up in a silent parody of a grin . |
| 25 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 26 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 27 | It mattered little whether the plot put Cagney in the right or wrong or how the movie ended or whether the action was wrapped up in a sermon . |
| 28 | ( Doane 1984 ) The issue of the female viewer 's possibilities for identification was taken up in a different way in the work of Janet Bergstrom and in Laura Mulvey 's own ‘ Afterthoughts on ‘ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' ’ . |
| 29 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 30 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |