Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 2 | Baal 's name was latterly adopted as a title of honour , both by other gods and mortal kings and leaders , such as Hanni-bal . |
| 3 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |
| 4 | In 1966 Peyton Rous was duly honoured with a Nobel prize . |
| 5 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 6 | The surveyor was duly appointed by the parties under the lease . |
| 7 | Whilst their more extreme suggestions were disregarded , the degree of concern was duly communicated to the government . |
| 8 | The arrangements concerning the loan were , according to Feigen , confirmed in a letter from the museum director and the painting was duly sent to the museum as a loan pending sale in mid August 1991 . |
| 9 | The first study was duly undertaken with the co-operation of orthodox medical practitioners and researchers . |
| 10 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |
| 11 | The lapse was duly noted by the Stage Manager and no one was surprised to be summoned on stage at the ‘ half ’ for the evening show , and receive a dressing down from the Company Manager . |
| 12 | If so , there is work ahead ! ’ and his challenge was duly answered by a broadside . |
| 13 | I was duly elected without a vote being needed , onto the Standing Committee , as were five other people . |
| 14 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
| 15 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 16 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 17 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 18 | La finta semplice ( The Pretended Simpleton ) , an opera buffa based on a play by Goldoni , was duly performed in the Archbishop of Salzburg 's palace theatre on 1 May 1769 , to the satisfaction of its 13-year-old composer . |
| 19 | This was duly installed in the turbine house with an air line running up the hill and was programmed to blow air under the leaves every so often . |
| 20 | An official from the Region had a post with a Cycleway sign attached ; this was duly knocked into the ground beside the river for the ‘ photo opportunity ’ and then removed , as we were nowhere near the actual Cycleway route . |
| 21 | And she was duly guided round the shops and revamped . |
| 22 | This was duly reflected in the jade inventory . |
| 23 | Tom Jones and Duff argued for resignation , and Lady Astor helped to sway Dawson to the same line , which was duly reflected in The Times leader of Monday morning . |
| 24 | The interview was duly shown at the end of the third broadcast of the obituary programme and was very well received . |
| 25 | So for the potential crime of the bad men , all of whom seemed perfectly pleasant , sentence was passed on Melinda , who was duly imprisoned in the hold . |
| 26 | Michael Roberts was duly entrusted with the steering in the Newmarket Classic , but his mount was never going well and trailed in eighth . |
| 27 | Michael Roberts was duly entrusted with the steering in the Newmarket Classic , but his mount was never going well and came eighth . |
| 28 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 29 | The driver concerned was duly issued with a Form 1 , which he refused . |
| 30 | But his daughter did n't reply , her eyes continued to overflow , the ticking carried on overhead , and Colonel Fergusson was duly buried before the year 's end . |