Example sentences of "were [verb] in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barricades blocked the main streets and were erected in many neighbourhoods . |
| 2 | In 1958 the foreign exchange restrictions left over from the immediate post-war period were eased in many countries in Western Europe . |
| 3 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 4 | Many new members of her classes were enrolled in these ways and if assessed only on numerical growth and continuous class activity , Miss Green 's success was impressive in comparison with other more conventional branch activities in the District in the mid-late twenties . |
| 5 | By the mid-1980s , confrontations were not confined to major urban centres , but were occurring in most parts of the country . |
| 6 | Demonstrations against the guerrillas were reported in several towns . |
| 7 | Most of his work for this period was published in Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) ; many important poems , such as Resolution and Independence and the Immortality Ode , which were included in these volumes , have received a good deal of critical attention elsewhere . |
| 8 | These were decorated in many ways ; with plaitwork , leaves , circles and geometric scrolls . |
| 9 | Western countries led by France were said in some reports to be fearful of the destabilization of Morocco should a UN-organized vote go against King Hassan II 's claim to Western Sahara . |
| 10 | However , they were not normally set up for the heavy infantryman 's tactics of prolonged defence before a steady advance , although they were misused in these roles at times . |
| 11 | To onlookers these men were seen in many cases as ‘ Nonconformist ministers ’ and of many it could be said that ‘ his prayer was like himself , rough and earnest ’ . |
| 12 | According to official figures at least 13 police and four civilians were killed and 29 people , many of them also police , were injured in several hours of fighting . |
| 13 | Causes of secondary hypertension were sought in all cases , including estimations of urine vanillylmandelic acid at periods of peak pressure or anxiety , plasma potassium , urea , and creatinine concentrations , and searches for bacteriuria and signs of coarctation or renal artery stenosis . |
| 14 | These limitation terms were incorporated in all contracts between seedsmen and farmers and had been for many years . |
| 15 | They were grown in many combinations , so that we frequently get references to drage ( barley and oats ) and maslin ( wheat and rye ) . |
| 16 | Otherwise , the towns were transferred in many cases from imperial to papal overlordship . |
| 17 | Other marches against racism were organized in many cities in the course of November , notably in Bonn on Nov. 14 when demonstrators came out to oppose any change of the Basic w'sgenerous asylum provisions and to urge stronger action to protect refugees . |
| 18 | So also the french Radicals in the Fourth Republic were to splinter in all directions , participating in governments of both left and right . |
| 19 | For most delegates the interesting part of the Conference is the address of the General Secretary , Ciaran Ryan in a wide-ranging and thought provoking address reviewed the events of the past ‘ eventful two years ’ , looked at current issues and outlined some of the specific issues which the incoming Executive Committee would have to take up , Jobs , their retention and creation were major issues and closely connected was the position of part-time workers in the industry who were exploited in many instances and also temporary staff who were ‘ fired and let go and threatened at the drop of a hat ’ . |
| 20 | During this period the number of people working in the office in Carlisle virtually doubled at almost no cost to the BDA , and valuable contributions were made in all departments . |
| 21 | Fairly regular counts were made in several areas between 1966 and 1976 , and the highest count recorded for each during October to March is shown in the table to indicate the scale of the wintering population . |
| 22 | In December 1863 he patented a combination of an electromagnetic generator with a magneto-electric exciter , and these machines were made in some numbers by Wilde & Company , but in use they had the disadvantage of becoming very hot . |
| 23 | When news of Joni 's book got out , efforts were made in some quarters to postpone its publication , in the hope that certain pages might be cut or toned down . |
| 24 | Long before this time wooden huts were made in these areas , by primitive peoples , which had domed structures built over square forms supported by means of planks set across the angles of the square thus making it into an octagon . |
| 25 | Some extremely fine sauce-boats were produced in these materials from Worcester around the mid-1750s , based on a silver sauce-boat with scroll-moulded panels painted with Chinese ladies on a landscape . |
| 26 | Plasmids containing the 160bp amplified DNA insert were sequenced in both directions using Sequenase 2.0 ( United States Biochemicals ) . |
| 27 | The tweedy lady , very county , who suffered from some extreme fungoid disease of her feet , which were wrapped in many layers of polythene and which in a public cinema would have guaranteed her a whole row to herself , but at the NFT caused whoever was unfortunate to have the adjoining numbered seat to retain vivid Aromavision memories of particular films . |
| 28 | Chow fed male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 300–350 g were used in all experiments . |
| 29 | Smaller amounts of money were used in many ways to improve the well-being , especially , of long stay children or elderly people . |
| 30 | Hotels are the usual choice of venue and were used in some cases . |