Example sentences of "was [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last question was uttered in a guileless manner . |
| 2 | For Asians , the expected mortality was calculated in a similar manner , using immigrant mortality data . |
| 3 | It was n't immediately evident from some camps whether the idea was to continue in a serious vein of rugby competition or subject themselves to the physical demands of the concentrated social calendar . |
| 4 | On the 28th of the same month the list was altered in a new agreement , with Richard Windle joining the " team " . |
| 5 | Using radiotelemetry equipment , Valori et al observed that motility of the small bowel was altered in a different manner in patients with IBS than in controls . |
| 6 | It was formed in a small oblong , one side rounded , the other almost straight . |
| 7 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 8 | His fingers and nails were scraped to remove the sacred unction ; a barber shaved what remained of his tonsure , and he was clad in a poor yeoman beadle 's gown . |
| 9 | He was clad in a short towelling robe , and his hair was damp , and he was clearly on his way back from taking a shower when , on her way to carry out her own ablutions , she passed him in the sitting-room . |
| 10 | Ell jumped as the hopper was consumed in a huge fireball . |
| 11 | Djohar had been under increasing pressure from opposition groups as well as from the IMF and the World Bank to dismiss Mchangama after he was implicated in a financial scandal [ see p. 38902 ] . |
| 12 | A new apprentice to the smith was treated in a symbolic way like the young colt . |
| 13 | ‘ I think he was treated in a shoddy way , tried by a kangaroo court and found guilty by his own accusers . |
| 14 | Mary , shocked and bruised , was treated in a local hospital at Chesterfield , Derbyshire . |
| 15 | What happened in the Jerusalem Church took place against the background of Pentecost — a time when the Holy Spirit was given in a remarkable way , so that in Jerusalem thousands believed and were baptised . |
| 16 | Parkwood was a large house set in its own grounds and was situated in a rural area of woodlands and fields , and was , to Leith 's mind , quite idyllic . |
| 17 | From then on fortunes took a downward turn : the Plumstead ground was situated in a remote corner of the capital and attendances were low . |
| 18 | It was situated in a post-war housing estate on the outskirts of Greenock and suffered from the same sort of social and economic problems found in the working class communities elsewhere . |
| 19 | Victoria was situated in a large cutting with tunnels at each end of the station . |
| 20 | She was still brooding as she reached the surgery , which was situated in a superior house of dressed stone set among laurel bushes and bits of lawn . |
| 21 | Schrödinger imagined an experiment in which a cat was placed in a sealed box with a sufficient supply of air to last it for the duration of the experiment . |
| 22 | ‘ At 17 I was placed in a mental hospital for two days . |
| 23 | She was placed in a small cell without being interrogated . |
| 24 | He examined Sir Thomas 's corpse , pronounced him to have been poisoned , and claimed the potion was placed in a half-drunk cup of wine beside Sir Thomas 's bed . |
| 25 | For this reason the centre was placed in a deprived area of East London . |
| 26 | At the Correspondent , the sports desk was placed in a windowless alcove , barricaded in by knitting copy-takers , and subjected to terrifying experiments with an air-conditioning unit . |
| 27 | A chair was placed in a certain spot in the room for each lesson — Theresa 's chair . |
| 28 | No , it was n't transport related , I knew that my , my group , because everybody was placed in a certain group by age and , er I knew that I was due to go and I thought oh well this is hanging around you sort of wanted to get on with it . |
| 29 | She was placed in a safe house but later returned to the coven of her own free will . |
| 30 | The trustees of the Pilgrim Society obliged and sent a piece of the relic which was placed in a special niche above a door to the right of the pulpit . |