Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 2 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 3 | The Irish were beaten back in ‘ 87 by 88 runs against a side which then had six Test players , including Allan Lamb . |
| 4 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 5 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 6 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |