Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 2 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 3 | These were eventually embodied in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949 . |
| 4 | Nailing was an exception , but women and children were widely employed in the light metal wares of Birmingham . |
| 5 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 6 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 7 | The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened . |
| 8 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 9 | The shots , which were widely reprinted in the Allied press , showed a relaxed General listening to his wife play the piano or watching her knit . |
| 10 | Bishop Burnet , whose church-manship and politics were very different , and whose memoirs were widely read in the eighteenth century , described him as |
| 11 | If one-roomed cottages were rarely built in the nineteenth century , those with two were common , though very few survive today . |
| 12 | Birthdays , in the modern sense , were rarely recorded in the early Middle Ages : it was the " heavenly birthdays " ( the earthly death-days ) of saints and martyrs that were celebrated in liturgies . |
| 13 | I was horrified in nineteen ninety one with my first visit to see the enormous problems in housing three and a half million people were forcibly moved in the eighties in South Africa , the biggest peacetime movement of people anywhere in the world and there are now over seven million people in , just in the shacks on the roads , not even the informal housing which counts for more . |
| 14 | The works ( Leading principles of a Constitutional Code ; Official Aptitude Maximized , Expense Minimized ; Codification proposal ; and Emancipation Spanish ) were mostly written in the 1820's when Bentham brought together , with his theory of representative democracy , his long interest in public finance and codification , which were then adapted in Bentham 's words ‘ for the use of all nations and all governments professing liberal opinions ’ . |
| 15 | The first group were highly cited in the first year after publication , and declined thereafter . |
| 16 | The decoration of the jar is lifted directly from Chinese porcelains of the fourteenth century which were highly prized in the Middle East at the time . |
| 17 | These achievements were highly praised in the Chinese media and people could see the results for themselves in some localities with more agricultural produce on sale . |
| 18 | A disclaimer would not be effective if it were merely contained in the small print of a contract or if it were simply the subject of a casual remark by the salesman during negotiations . |
| 19 | Minority groups were better represented in the new Congress than ever before . |
| 20 | I did n't say much at those early stewards ' meetings , but realised very quickly that many of the very excellent people present were somewhat lacking in the ordinary muscle a steward requires to carry out his job quietly and efficiently . |
| 21 | Two pints were swiftly downed in the 10 minutes remaining , helping to cool tempers and throw a more rosy glow over the day 's epic proceedings . |
| 22 | Teachers were in short supply and those who did volunteer were naturally steeped in the Scottish tradition of education . |
| 23 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 24 | In situ hybridizations on injected embryos showed that , at this developmental stage , transcripts of eng-2 were only detected in the dorsal portion of the neural keel at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary ( Fig. 4 e ) . |
| 25 | I began to feel , as I had always felt with my aunts , that personal affairs were unimportant : we were only sticks in the great river of history that was sweeping us along . |
| 26 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 27 | There have been men such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) and C. S. Lewis who were so rooted in the Christian gospel that their ‘ romanticism ’ was clearly a prophetic warning against modernity . |
| 28 | The columns of MLs led by the destroyer riding high out of the water were suddenly caught in the harsh glare of the west bank searchlight . |
| 29 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 30 | The near and next near contracts were generally mispriced in the same direction , and by a roughly similar amount . |