Example sentences of "was [verb] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was absorbed in cleaning the arched windows when she heard the sound of a car engine . |
| 2 | A major blunder was caused because , while negotiating with the coal miners over their pay demands , a significant error was made in calculating the true level of previous pay awards and various overtime rates . |
| 3 | Yet , while bureaucratic power over commoners remained capricious right into the nineteenth century , steady progress was made in entrenching the individual rights of noblemen . |
| 4 | The resulting report was believed to have established that while Olivetti had not directly breached COCOM guidelines , the company 's technicians working in the Soviet Union may have " upgraded " equipment which the USA claimed was used in developing the Soviet supersonic fighter , the Yak-41 . |
| 5 | The Registrar-General 's classification of occupations was used in making the social class assessments : classes I and II ( professional and managerial ) were termed ‘ middle class ’ and classes IV and V ( semi-skilled and unskilled ) ‘ working class ’ . |
| 6 | A somewhat more creative approach , however , was demonstrated in renaming the former ‘ Street of the Red Army ’ . |
| 7 | After the war , reactors like the Windscale ‘ piles ’ — scene of the 1957 accident described in Chapter One — were designed to produce material for the first British nuclear bombs , and no expense was spared in developing the necessary technology . |
| 8 | However , very few of the teachers even recognized the issue as one of professional concern at the start of the project , and most of the first two years was spent in establishing the educational importance of the issue and working towards the development of feasible intervention strategies . |
| 9 | It is virtually certain that Friedrich Muenzer was mistaken in taking the Herculean legend of the Fabii as an invention of an Augustan antiquarian ( P.-W. , s.v . |
| 10 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |