Example sentences of "were [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze . |
| 2 | Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel . |
| 3 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 4 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 5 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 6 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 7 | Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen . |
| 8 | Three of the original crew members of Mary Alice were traced in the mid 1980s and were willing to share their memories and experiences . |
| 9 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 10 | In the course of the project , assessment materials were developed in a variety of modes . |
| 11 | Milton 's ideas , for instance , were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life . |
| 12 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 13 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 14 | Several underground and opencast fluorspar deposits ( with associated baryte and galena ) were developed in the Northern Pennine ( Weardale mines ) and the Southern Pennine ( Sallet Hole and Long Rake mines ) orefields . |
| 15 | The problem is that Reich only took half of Freud 's theory , and ignored the role of the death instincts which were developed in the later theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 16 | Comprehensive resettlement policies were developed in the 1970s — too late for these patients at Larbeit Asylum |
| 17 | Such assertions were developed in the 1970s into an onslaught on the theory of ‘ equidistance between the blocs ’ . |
| 18 | From the Romans the French learned great fruit-growing skills which were developed in the monasteries . |
| 19 | Political and economic theories about the process of West European integration were developed in the 1950s in the light of the patterns of trade , industrial production , social interchange across borders , and international security which then prevailed . |
| 20 | It was against expectations and conceptions such as these that two of the early surveys were developed in the United States — the market research survey and the pre-election poll . |
| 21 | It was decided that , to safeguard the future of the species , a population of at least 200 breeding adults would be kept safely in captivity , while other animals were gambled in an experimental reintroduction . |
| 22 | NO ex-South Metropolitan car was ever renumbered , although a number were repainted in the official London Transport livery . |
| 23 | From then on , as they were repainted in the new red livery , the remainder were renumbered 1–20 , in the reverse order of their old numbers . |
| 24 | While at Charlton Works , they were repainted in the L.C.C . |
| 25 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 26 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 27 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 28 | About the same date [ 1834 ] a range of Loose Boxes and Stalls were erected in the Lower Paddock near to the Ditch . |
| 29 | Staggered vertical timbers were erected in the trench , probably with horizontal members between the verticals ; stakes were placed in a line down the centre between the verticals to hold the intervening panels of daubed wattles . |
| 30 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |