Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was exhibited in various places with great financial success . |
| 2 | This was tested in two patients with severe ARDS . |
| 3 | A central part of this was expressed in two catchwords of the bourgeoisie : prudence and postponement , ritualistic guidelines to the bourgeoisie at this stage of its history but also presented secondarily as models for the poor . |
| 4 | Like most Greek bronzes this was cast in several sections : skirt , upper torso , limbs ( one can see where the lost left arm was attached ) : and the side-curls separately from the separate head . |
| 5 | This was condemned in western countries , but feeling against jews was common everywhere : Freud 's father had his hat knocked off by a Gentile who shouted at him ‘ Jew , get off the pavement ’ , and Jewish shops were smashed by miners in Tredegar in 1911 . |
| 6 | This was treated in general terms in Chapter 1 and with specific regard to predation in Chapter 2 . |
| 7 | As experience grew this was followed in selected cases with workshops at which key managers and staff discussed the findings and prepared their own action plans . |
| 8 | Actually this was done in double-quick time but I can never forget the excitement and the terror of that night . |
| 9 | This was confirmed in 14 patients by covert video surveillance . |
| 10 | This was confirmed in subsequent experiments ( figure 6A ) . |
| 11 | To a limited and inadequate extent this was recognised in classical criminology : Beccaria acknowledged that the content , as well as the operation , of legal rules was likely to be a significant factor in the degree of compliance that could be expected . |
| 12 | The advantage of our body clock is that it improves the way in which we fit into a rhythmic environment ( this was considered in more detail in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 14 | This was expected in early April and , if positive , would allow signature of the agreement in May . |
| 15 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 16 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 17 | As to the climbdowns to which the right hon. Gentleman referred , they merely reflect the Government 's success in putting in writing — and I agree that this was needed in some cases the Government 's intentions , using words that even the right hon. Gentleman could understand . |
| 18 | This was reflected in many ways . |
| 19 | While much was achieved in improving safety standards , towards the decade 's end there was a series of accidents that perhaps shocked the public more than anything since Harrow & Wealdstone in the very early days of nationalisation . |
| 20 | Much was accomplished in those years , and many achievements are recorded in the Library 's Annual Reports for that period . |
| 21 | Now one of their own was implicated in alleged rituals that seemed to have sprung directly from a determined searching for satanism and rituals adopted by extremist Christian groups . |
| 22 | Little was known in English-speaking countries about the new synthetic drugs ( see Chapter 8 ) discovered in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 23 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 24 | Much that was written in those days now sounds appallingly snobbish , and I think it is a great tribute to my parents that we were kept ignorant of such distinctions . |
| 25 | We decided the best way to do that was to put in this questionnaire . |
| 26 | and I do n't know if that was exceeded in this case . |
| 27 | I will favour the right hon. Gentleman by quoting one thought that was expressed in that article : ’ If the single person discount remains a feature of the tax they will have to create a register — a point Michael Heseltine will eventually have to acknowledge . |
| 28 | The lead engine had a canvas dodger along its canopy , that was stencilled in crude letters : Look Out , Fritz ! |
| 29 | For example , the Turkish translation of ( 95 ) might be glossed as ( 96 ) , where the proximal demonstrative anaphorically refers to the first referent introduced , and the distal demonstrative to the second : ( 95 ) John and Mary came into the room : he was laughing but she was crying ( 96 ) John and Mary came into the room : this was laughing , but that was crying In that case , there are good arguments for considering that anaphora ultimately rests on deictic notions ( Lyons , 1977a : 671 ) . |
| 30 | That was reported in British newspapers on 11 July . |