Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately methods of antenatal diagnosis were developed and introduced in the 1980s , allowing parents to be offered termination of the abnormal fetus . |
| 2 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 3 | THREE men have admitted the carjack execution of two pals who were stripped and shot in the head . |
| 4 | The following modules appeared in the 1990/91 National Certificate Catalogue and were revised and replaced in the 1991/92 Catalogue . |
| 5 | Over 1200 biochemistry and haematology specimens were examined and reported in an eight day period in the laboratory of the Gilbert Bain Hospital , Lerwick . |
| 6 | They were stopped and arrested in a brief operation involving thirty police . |
| 7 | Labour has condemned Government plans to cut benefits for young , single mothers after details of plans were leaked and published in a newspaper . |
| 8 | Boxes of new T–6 main landing gears and P–40 tail wheel assemblies were located and utilised in the mock-ups . |
| 9 | It is easy to see how these misconceptions have been formed , since the majority of teachers were educated and steeped in a system that perpetuated the concept of ‘ the remedial child ’ , and was buttressed by policies and practices which continually reinforced the idea of a different child aligned with the need for segregation . |
| 10 | This officers ' group lasted for the duration of the occupation , which is to say , for six years , though most of its leaders were caught and executed in the course of the war . |
| 11 | Single-stranded oligonucleotides describing the desired changes were synthesised and used in a mutagenesis protocol described by Kunkel ( 23 ) . |
| 12 | And she remembered then the old adage tossed around the dinner table by her parents ' friends , when the drink had loosened their tongues , and things were said that stuck in the mind like grit in the eye . |
| 13 | At the same time we should also keep in our prayers all those who died , were injured or bereaved in the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 14 | Upon their marriage they had moved from Allerthorpe to the market town and in 1881 were living and working in the Market Place , next door to Henry King the ratcatcher and close to two other saddlers . |
| 15 | The ash sweeps for the roof were steamed and bent in a specially designed wood-bending plant . |
| 16 | Hundreds if not thousands of people were shot and buried in the woods where these bones were found . |
| 17 | Beneath the city streets is a network of passages which were made as aqueducts in the thirteenth century , to carry water from local springs into the medieval walled town . |
| 18 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
| 19 | The farm implements of this period were made and repaired in the village . |
| 20 | This contained not only 110 unmounted intaglios , but also 17 more set in silver rings which formed part of a collection of 89 such rings ; all of them , together with other items of silver jewellery , bars of silver , scraps of gold and two implements , were enclosed and hidden in a small pot . |
| 21 | From 1959 to 1960 a variety of steam shunters were used and tried in the Works ( from Bletchley Shed ) , but none were successful . |
| 22 | However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 23 | In England and Wales 1,165,000 houses were demolished or closed in the period 1955–74 , in a massive programme of compulsory purchase whereby local authorities considerably extended their council-land holdings . |
| 24 | In Scotland , a further 296,000 houses were demolished or closed in the period 1955–74 , making nearly 1.5 million in total for Great Britain ( Cherry , 1976 ) . |
| 25 | Their paths were to cross and recross in the years ahead . |
| 26 | The result would be that killings were classified and labelled in a more refined way , but at the cost of lengthy trials and mounting legal-aid bills . |
| 27 | Oh we were waiting and waiting in the end we got in the car . |
| 28 | Control mice ( C ) were anaesthetised and placed in the irradiation jig but were completely shielded . |
| 29 | The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves . |
| 30 | My parents were born and raised in The Beach , a solid , respectable working-class Anglo district edging on Lake Ontario in the east end of Toronto . |