Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 2 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 3 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 4 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 5 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 6 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 7 | The second half exploded when Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips and Southend goalkeeper Paul Sansome were sent off in the space of seven minutes . |
| 8 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 9 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 10 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 11 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 12 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 15 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 16 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 17 | In South-west England block and basin limestones and shales and spilitic basic volcanics were laid down in an extensional basin developed at the western end of the Rheno-Hercynian zone . |
| 18 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 19 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 20 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 21 | The calculations that describe how the chemical elements were cooked up in the turmoil of creation say that there were three types of neutrino around to help things on their way . |
| 22 | The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments , then seen to come back into promotions . |
| 23 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 24 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 25 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 26 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 27 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 28 | While you lovely nouveau beatniks , Eton-cropped dancers , workwear groovers and full-effect ravers were holed up in a handful of chosen niteries , these suburban salopes , these soft sixth-form crusties were out everywhere , going forth nationwide and multiplying . |
| 29 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 30 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |