Example sentences of "were [verb] in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton 's ideas , for instance , were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 4 | The gill openings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys . |
| 5 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
| 6 | Factories were ordered to cut production levels and road repairs were halted in an effort to cut traffic jams . |
| 7 | They were placed in an 8 gallon ( 36l ) tank with some plant cover and my normal tap water of pH 7.8 , GH 450ppm and a temperature of 76° F ( 24° C ) . |
| 8 | When the two were placed in an aquarium the association became clear . |
| 9 | there was no duty of care imposed where the children were placed in an independent school approved by the secretary of state . |
| 10 | Both the current state of play within the discipline , and some indications as to future transformations , were given in an inaugural lecture by the new professor of English Literature ( G. I Bickersteth ) at Aberdeen on 12 October 1938 ( the exact date is not without significance , as will be seen ) . |
| 11 | The cars loaded in Talbot Square by the side of the Clifton Hotel , which was also the terminus of the Marton route , and were shedded in an enlarged Marton depot . |
| 12 | Their captors were clad in an assortment of gear , army camouflage being predominant . |
| 13 | as if the years were gathered in an hour |
| 14 | By 1703 Sarah and Thomas Egerton were embroiled in an apparently unsuccessful suit for divorce . |
| 15 | Today , it 's difficult to imagine how electric guitars were received in an environment where rock'n'roll did not exist . |
| 16 | The more liberal values of the 1960s were sustained in an unobtrusive , yet pervasive , climate of common attitudes shared by Home Office officials , special interest groups , and a respectable body of informed opinion . |
| 17 | Ethers were treated in an almost conjunctive style with pentane-oxy-ethane for 1-ethoxypentane . |
| 18 | You should be prepared for the fact that some of her views and opinions will be rather different from your own , remembering that they were formed in an entirely different social climate . |
| 19 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 20 | The Lewis home was rented for enough to cover its mortgage , and Jocasta and Tina were enrolled in an English boarding school famous for its high fees , flexible academic requirements and tolerant attitude towards the screwed-up children of wealthy foreigners . |
| 21 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 22 | The controversial policies were contained in an election leaflet produced by the BNP for the party 's Darlington candidate Dr Donald Clarke . |
| 23 | Their initial closure decision was made on three grounds , according to the minutes : the expected financial savings of about £3,000 ; consideration of the good condition and underused capacity of the school building at Green Haven , as opposed to the poor condition of the older building at Village ( whose toilet facilities were located in an out-building at the school ) ; and the Director 's feeling that the ‘ educational situation ’ would be better at Green Haven . |
| 24 | The evacuees were located in an overcrowded and inadequate camp near Juneau , Alaska , where nearly one-fifth died from illness and disease . |
| 25 | Six players were booked in an ill-tempered second-half though the referee took no action against Liverpool defender Mark Wright following a foul on striker Paul Wilkinson . |
| 26 | One Palestinian guerrilla and one Swedish member of the nine-nation UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) were killed , and five UN soldiers were wounded in an incident involving the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) on Sept. 13 . |
| 27 | There is now a considerable literature on the public schools , none of which unfortunately comes to grips with what seems , with respect to the subject of this book , to be perhaps the central issue : the fact that for a hundred years , from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth , the British governing classes were educated in an atmosphere which combined the toleration of a merciless brutality with perpetual exhortations to be good . |
| 28 | They also have a number of plastic air powered ornaments which were included in an earlier review . |
| 29 | If Stirling had not been captured when he was , he would hardly have survived his planned raid on Sousse , having to approach his target right through the middle of the remnants of the Axis armies who were caught in an ever-diminishing pocket . |
| 30 | It could be argued that local authorities , in particular , were caught in an intolerable position . |