Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 2 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 3 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 4 | Stewart slipped on the wicketkeeping gloves when Russell took a day 's sick leave with a stomach upset , and the final three sessions were played out in the usual no-prospects eeriness , which was heightened by the horrors of the evening before . |
| 5 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 6 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 7 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 8 | The calculations that describe how the chemical elements were cooked up in the turmoil of creation say that there were three types of neutrino around to help things on their way . |
| 9 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 10 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 11 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 12 | Mr Christie claimed that though the Dutch and Belgian governments contributed to save sections of Leyland-DAF in their own countries , the British plants were left out in the cold after our government refused to participate in the rescue . |
| 13 | The grey trousers were put on in the month of March last and the white waistcoats in May . ’ |
| 14 | Unable to get a drink , the workers were standing around in the street listening to pacifist orators . |
| 15 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 16 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 17 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 18 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 19 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 20 | One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine . |
| 21 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 22 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 23 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 24 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 25 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 26 | The performance took the audience from gasps of fear as dancers were thrown up in the air , to laughter as a roller skating bear entertained . |
| 27 | As a production of the Ministry of Town Planning much of its message clearly trespassed on the domain of the Ministry of Transport , so that it was scarcely surprising that some intractable transport problems were glossed over in the euphoria for a brave new world . |
| 28 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |
| 29 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 30 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |