Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 2 | To confirm that the changes in pin activity were due to changes in the level of a characterized gene product of tomato , we followed changes in steady-state levels of pin 2 messenger RNA by northern analysis . |
| 3 | Most of the reported deaths , however , were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations . |
| 4 | The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate . |
| 5 | They sell 100,000 shirts a year but , unfortunately , the two examples sent to the Echo were unsuitable for use in a family newspaper . |
| 6 | The Justices had power to seize for the king the bailiwicks of Forest wardens and foresters of fee who were guilty of misconduct in office , and on occasion removed unpaid Forest officers such as the verderers . |
| 7 | Despite the earlier reservations about the differing user needs , it was felt that , because both departments were dependent on images in their operations , eg plans , drawings etc , rather than just textual documents , there could be considerable potential for the use of Document Image Processing ( DIP ) systems . |
| 8 | Anti-Clinton sentiments were manifest among voters in New York , where six out of 10 supported either former Senator Paul Tsongas , who came in second even though he is no longer running , or the fiery populism of third-placed Jerry Brown . |
| 9 | The patients were free of symptoms in 24–72 h . |
| 10 | The degree of amyloid deposition in the myenteric plexuses varied widely ; some were free of amyloid in certain areas , while massive amyloid deposits were evident in others . |
| 11 | In the present case … the arrangement could be brought to an end by both parties in circumstances which were free from uncertainty in the sense that there would be no doubt whether the determining event had occurred . |
| 12 | Many politicians and journalists were ignorant about problems in the teaching of grammar and about the status of Standard English , and simply desired to reinstate the disciplines of study typical of schoolrooms in the 1930s . |
| 13 | Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police . |
| 14 | I knew that the Falkland Islands were similar to Shetland in that both were a group of treeless islands in the middle of an ocean , and I wanted to see just how wild creatures — and birds in particular — had adapted as different species in what I imagined was a similar environment . |
| 15 | The judge ruled that section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 under which admissions made in ‘ proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property ’ were inadmissible in evidence in proceedings for an offence under that Act , did not apply to bankruptcy proceedings and that the documents were admissible in evidence under section 433 of the Insolvency Act 1986 The defendant was convicted . |
| 16 | Our players were magnificent in defence in the second half and we somehow managed to keep the Irish out ’ — RICHARD GACHES ( Thurrock captain ) after the shock defeat of London Irish in the Pilkington Cup third round . |
| 17 | But there was soon a limit to this process of adjustment : once perfection had been reached they were vulnerable to changes in habitat . |
| 18 | Reich thought that there was no need to posit basic death instincts to explain the anti-social , unconscious feelings that he agreed with Freud were present in people in modern societies in Europe and America . |
| 19 | Net earnings per share fell 43% to $0.04 in the quarter , and were flat at $0.02 in the half . |
| 20 | She and Muhammad were married in Louisville in 1986 , after she earned her MBA . |
| 21 | His parents , Philip Leapor and Elizabeth Whitehead , were married in Hinton in 1691 . |
| 22 | By early 1988 , 22 bureaux were involved with projects in local prisons and many other projects were under discussion . |
| 23 | One of the things we were involved in remains in my memory with shocking force . |
| 24 | Germans fans were involved in rioting in Gothenburg during last year 's European championship finals in Sweden . |
| 25 | Godfrey J. answered the question by concluding that the Board of Review were incorrect in law in holding that the relevant profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong . |
| 26 | In the Hadziyannis 's series , however , the vast majority of patients were negative for HBeAg in serum or HBcAg in the liver , and there was no quantitative data of pre-S peptide expression in the liver . |
| 27 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 28 | Gibson and Gibson ( 1955 ) responded vigorously to this suggestion , arguing that there were no clear cases in which it was necessary to conclude that the associations formed by cues during discrimination training were responsible for changes in the distinctiveness of those cues . |
| 29 | According to Mr Hurst , Trafalgar House has held back money because it claims sub-contractors were responsible for delays in completing the project . |
| 30 | They also were responsible to Parliament in order to achieve their ends , a fact recognized by both the king and his ministers . |