Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thick pink towels were stacked on a rack , other pink towels were over a rail . |
| 2 | Boxes of apples , which filled the air with a sickly sweet perfume , were stacked beside a cracked sink that was flanked by warped wooden draining boards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel . |
| 5 | The Middle Ages were punctuated by a series of earlier revivals usually centred round courts like those of Charlemagne and Frederick II . |
| 6 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 7 | KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops . |
| 8 | In the west and Wales , large numbers of churches were developed as a result of late/post-Roman Christianity by so-called ‘ Celtic Saints ’ . |
| 9 | CYNICS might argue that ‘ green ’ or environmental funds and their ethical counterparts were developed as a marketing tool to attract the conscientious investor . |
| 10 | The objectives would be achieved more readily ‘ if courses were developed on a unit basis ’ . |
| 11 | In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers . |
| 12 | In the interval , policies were developed at a slower pace than the rate the problems multiplied with which they were intended to deal . |
| 13 | The pictures were developed from a film found in a camera belonging to Elizabeth Over , 30 , murdered on a lonely beach at Sodwana Bay , in Zululand . |
| 14 | In the course of the project , assessment materials were developed in a variety of modes . |
| 15 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 16 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
| 17 | These works were erected thirteen years ago , and being ultimately leased to the L & NWR Company , the present buildings were erected on a still larger scale . |
| 18 | On 2 September , troops opened fire when barricades were erected by a group protesting against a sharp increase in the cost of living and the government 's failure to convene a national conference to discuss the country 's political future . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Groups of questions on similar tasks were prefaced by a statement of their nature ( e.g. " The next two questions are about change from 50p " ) . |
| 21 | Chi-squared , Fisher 's exact , Student 's t , and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to detect significant differences among vaccine groups ; 95% confidence intervals ( CI ) for proportions were calculated on a logit scale and converted to the original scale , and 95% CIs for GMTs were calculated with the method of normal approximation . |
| 22 | Effects of cimetidine and histamine of the cells were calculated as a percentage of the untreated controls . |
| 23 | Phylogenetic trees based on the nucleic acid sequences of introns inserted at the identical position as intron 1 of the LSUrRNA gene from P.wickerhamii were calculated with a maximum parsimony program ( 36 ) , a maximum likelihood and a neighbour joining program ( 35 ) . |
| 24 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 25 | The Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the overall odds ratio and its variance were calculated from a set of studies by the Robins-Breslow-Greenland method . |
| 26 | At the conclusion of the liturgy , Bishop O'Brien presented Faculty Certificates to 150 Ministers who were recommissioned for a further five years service . |
| 27 | All four of the white Los Angeles police officers , whose acquittal in the Rodney King beating case sparked several days of rioting in the city in late April and early May [ see p. 38894 ] , were indicted by a grand jury on Aug. 4 on federal charges of violating King 's civil rights . |
| 28 | Even greater passions were aroused by a spy case of absolutely no strategic significance whatever , the case of Alger Hiss , who was finally jailed in January 1950 , after two years of allegation and wild rumour . |
| 29 | Two forms of injection were arranged by a statistician who was not involved in the study . |
| 30 | In the front window was a display of paint-brushes which were arranged in a fan . |