Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 2 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 3 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 4 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 5 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 6 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 7 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 8 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , substantial progress has been made in reducing overcrowding , as of facially defined . |
| 9 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |
| 10 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 11 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 12 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |
| 13 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 14 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 15 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 16 | This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper . |
| 17 | During the field trial , this exploration was carried out in a conventional manner , eg by gathering background information relevant to the client organisation , by becoming familiar with the physical layout of the offices involved , and by interviewing a representative sample of staff from both departments and from the central support unit . |
| 18 | Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death . |
| 19 | The established church believed teetotalism was taking the place of God and was carried out in an un-Christian spirit . |
| 20 | The final honing was carried out in the usual fashion , using slipstones and strop . |
| 21 | Also in deference to their preferences , the building was carried out in the Early English Gothic style , its structural brickwork being faced externally with Kentish ragstone dressed with Bath stone at corners and door and window openings . |
| 22 | The endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was carried out in the standard manner using an Olympus or Pentax sideviewing endoscope under antibiotic cover . |
| 23 | From the fourteenth century onwards considerable building was carried out in the Gothic style . |
| 24 | Emily was curled up in a foetal position , naked , on the floor , sobbing . |
| 25 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 26 | A mother whose blonde hair was wound back in a demure knot , but whose lips were pursed in the semblance of a kiss . |
| 27 | Heath had heeded official opinion , which argued that now too much policy-making was bottled up in the super ministry and too little was reaching Cabinet . |
| 28 | Each tape was made up in a random order with the constraint that no two junctions of the same type should appear in consecutive positions within any block . |
| 29 | Quebec Farm , Sileby , Leicestershire , was built out in the new fields , away from the village , in 1760 . |
| 30 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |