Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was only a part of the ceremonial which surrounded the office with glamour and reminded the king 's subjects that he was God 's anointed — a notion which inspired them with great awe , when they were not actually engaged in rebellion against him . |
| 2 | Since the hiring and payment would be the responsibility of the male collier , women were not usually recorded in colliery accounts . " |
| 3 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 4 | If the discrepancy between ‘ is ’ and ‘ ought ’ were ever finally resolved in effect the world of practical experience would be destroyed . |
| 5 | New teaching methods were more easily discussed in business studies or applied social science than in an area like engineering with an established body of knowledge and longer traditions of teaching . |
| 6 | The regulations on transfers and replacements at higher grade were also frequently infringed in practice ( see IGAE 1984 : 19 , 42 ; Carril , September 1985 : 13 ) . |
| 7 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 8 | Multiple bands were also clearly seen in orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ) and the old world monkey Ceropithecus aethiops , but not in more distantly related species , such as pig or cow , where only a single hybridising band is seen . |
| 9 | THREE men arrested after the IRA bombing of a Warrington gas works and shooting of a police officer were today further remanded in custody until April 22 at London 's Arbour Square Magistrates Court . |
| 10 | They were n't all covered in paint like actresses . |
| 11 | Brennan ( 1985 ) felt that classroom assistants as a resource were relatively little exploited in curriculum terms with most assistants in special education acting as facilitators by helping children with disabilities to do what other children can do for themselves , or relieving the teacher of classroom chores . |
| 12 | The avoidance of the need to teach anything of programming or electronic engineering to students whose interests , aptitudes and qualifications were almost entirely based in art and language . |
| 13 | Eight institutions replied that they were no longer engaged in teacher education , others that there was no time , or no member of staff available to complete the questionnaire . |
| 14 | And they were no longer held in check by the culturally conservative trade-union movement , which was experiencing a sharp decline in its prestige and power . |
| 15 | ‘ But it just goes to show , ’ Ruth said , ‘ that they were right when they said emigrants should n't wait to leave until they were too far gone in poverty , but should go while they still have enough to provision themselves . ’ |
| 16 | This view was most strongly expressed in respect of music and drama . |
| 17 | Some countships were more equal than others : a " greater " count was presumably so called in part because his civitas was richer and more important , for instance , as a central place in one of the regna ( like Angers in Neustria , or Autun in Burgundy ) . |
| 18 | Petrol was so strictly rationed in wartime that bikes were always in demand . |
| 19 | Ally Donaldson , to his credit , gave the impression of being grimly determined to answer those who say he does n't tackle but he was not the naturally punitive defender who was so badly needed in view of the back row 's shortcomings . |
| 20 | He found that he could pay a compliment to Charles Raven , from whom he was so sadly sundered in spirit , for his book on Religion and Science . |
| 21 | Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body . |
| 22 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 23 | A main reason why lapis lazuli was so highly regarded in antiquity was the brilliance of its colour , blue flecked with gold . |
| 24 | Encouragement of such careful discrimination was perhaps also reflected in agent Clarkson 's other main function in the late 1780s — the establishment of local committees through consultation with influential individuals in communities . |
| 25 | Jackie had a nasty puncture in practice on the 150-m.p.h. straight and though he was not injured , his Matra was only just repaired in time for the race . |
| 26 | It was only just finished in time : according to Constanze , the overture ( the last section to be composed ) was completed just two days before the premiere . |
| 27 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 28 | She was already far advanced in pregnancy , and soon fell gravely ill . |
| 29 | I then said I was a friend of Sir Randolph Routh and that if the agent was not immediately taken in charge for assault , I should send in the strongest adverse report on his conduct of this entire vile business . |
| 30 | Mr. Thorpe had available to him a quicker way to secure the referral that he was seeking to the unit in Birmingham , so the process was not finally concluded in north Devon . |