Example sentences of "were [vb pp] in [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side . |
| 2 | Editor , — In 1990 three cases of retinoblastoma were reported in children whose mothers had spent part of their childhood in Seascale and whose maternal grandfathers had worked at Sellafield nuclear plant . |
| 3 | ‘ Long , and refreshingly frank , affidavits were addressed in evidence which revealed the faulty advice given to the minister . |
| 4 | Local residents were evacuated in case there needed to be a controlled explosion . |
| 5 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
| 6 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 7 | Police have said he fell ill twice , once shortly after he was arrested , and half-hourly checks were made in case his condition deteriorated . |
| 8 | Alice Shelley ( d.1960 ) and Minnie Shelley ( d.1966 ) , two nonagenarian sisters of Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , were buried in shrouds which they had themselves made . |
| 9 | Nanno Marinatos ( 1984 ) has argued persuasively that windows of appearance were used in Minoan rites at Akrotiri on Thera , so it is very likely indeed that they were used in Crete itself . |
| 10 | No changes were envisaged in Chapter I dealing with service , and the long intermission in the activities of the Conference until its revival in 1951 prevented any action . |
| 11 | you know they , when they first went up there to live , they er , had quite a problem , and the trouble was , was , the two boys they were born in Australia you see and they came here , and one was four and the other |
| 12 | I know you were born in Shotten What age are you my love ? |
| 13 | Even when the forms of such things as halberds or hoe-blades were rendered in jade they were too delicate for functional use . |
| 14 | Next morning the whole town and bay were shrouded in mist which condensed on every cold surface . |
| 15 | Significantly higher concentrations of laminin were found in patients whose alcohol intake was higher than 100 g/day compared with those with a lower intake ( p=0.03 ) , although there was no significant correlation between laminin concentrations and the amount ingested or with the years of ingestion . |
| 16 | Only two small colonic polyps were found in patients who had an upper gastrointestinal lesion . |
| 17 | Many cancers were found in patients who had defaulted the clinic before they were eligible for surveillance returning with new symptoms years later . |
| 18 | The 25 own label beers offered to taste were praised in reports which subsequently appeared in the press . |
| 19 | It was when it was disturbed — when the predator-prey ratio , or climatic changes , occurred — that events were set in train which would lead to inevitable extinction . |
| 20 | The loco went down the embankment taking some of the tanks with it , and the wreckage together with trees standing in the field were enveloped in flames which took several hours to extinguish . |
| 21 | When they were weighed in June they averaged 23.9kg compared with the 20.5kg of Bleu du Maine crosses managed in the same way . |
| 22 | In 1651 the Dutch republic forbade its diplomats to accept gifts from foreign governments ; and in 1692 regulations were issued in Sweden which for the first time specified the value of those to be given to foreign representatives on their departure . |
| 23 | Thus , children in our classroom practice sample spent a high proportion of their time working when they were engaged in tasks which involved talking to the class , talking to the teacher , construction , listening or collaboration . |
| 24 | The similarly complex system developed by the waTengo was based on a pattern in which grass , weeds and crop refuse were composted in Pits which were retained in both cropping and fallow periods . |
| 25 | To some extent , as I have suggested in the Introduction , these two themes were conceived in ways which gave rise to antithetical theories , in which either the influence of political forms and forces upon society or the influence of various social elements upon political forms was more strongly emphasized . |
| 26 | ‘ In the 1840s and 1850s , ’ says Robyn , ‘ a number of novels were published in England which have a certain family resemblance . |
| 27 | In the period 1965–83 , encouraged by tax incentives , 470 cattle ranches with an average size of 23 000 ha were established in Amazonia which , according to Repetto ( 1988a ) , accounted for c. 30 per cent of the total deforestation apparent from remotely sensed data collected between 1973 and 1983 . |
| 28 | The year 1808 saw a revival of religion in the area around Portadown and remarkable open-air meetings were held in Portadown itself , at Mahon , Scotch Street , Derryhale , Richhill and Dawson 's Grove . |
| 29 | Their wages and salaries were paid in cash which they took home and split into differing amounts to cover the cost of food , clothing , household bills , entertainment etc . |