Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] or [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time we should also keep in our prayers all those who died , were injured or bereaved in the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | TYNE AND WEAR : A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 5 | A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 6 | The Coventry , Ardent , and Antelope were all sunk ; many Welsh Guardsmen , waiting to land , were killed or maimed in an air assault on the Sir Galahad at Bluff Cove . |
| 7 | And of the Adults who left during the siege , or who managed to survive the fire , three Britons will soon go on trial for conspiracy to murder the federal agents who were killed or wounded in the initial shoot out . |
| 8 | Radio Lebanon reported on Aug. 24 that a number of civilians were killed or wounded in the subsequent SLA barrage , during which , according to some sources , regular Lebanese soldiers ( deployed in the south since July — see p. 38360 ) clashed with SLA fighters . |
| 9 | For in each instance the problem of expansion was solved or evaded in a different way , and produced as a result towns with very different characteristics . |
| 10 | A child born abroad will be a British citizen by descent if either the father or mother was born or adopted in the United Kingdom or acquired citizenship by registration or naturalization . |
| 11 | It is , therefore , very important to establish whether the property was recovered or preserved in the proceedings , since only then does the statutory charge apply . |
| 12 | When someone was hurt or killed in a motor accident , for example , the police chief sent men to watch the victim 's shaikh 's house to warn and counsel any group of people coming out intending to inflict equivalent injury on the other driver . |