Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 2 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 3 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 4 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 5 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 6 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 7 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 8 | It was later written down in two books called the Mishnah and the Talmud . |
| 9 | LEFT The first Opera House in the Haymarket , London , which was later burnt down in 1789 . |
| 10 | Even from the shore I could tell that it had half strangled itself in a length of fishing line ; it was also hooked up in several places and carrying some heavy land weights . |
| 11 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 12 | A major ‘ down-sizing ’ operation was also carried out in Advanced Materials and in the Films businesses . |
| 13 | I was nearly run over in New Palace Yard after the vote by the surge of Jaguars roaring out of the carpark and off to the country for the weekend . |
| 14 | [ The Antarctic Treaty was originally drawn up in 1959 , and entered into force in 1961 . |
| 15 | The study reports on the findings of a re-interview survey of employers ' attitudes to the Youth Training Scheme , which was originally carried out in 1984 and repeated in 1985 . |
| 16 | In 1333 he rallied the men of the Cinque ports to defend the country during Edward III 's absence in Scotland and through the early stages of the Hundred Years ' War was inevitably caught up in coastal defence . |
| 17 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |
| 18 | The radio claimed losses by government forces in the north-west , and said that fighting was now going on in five areas , mainly in Amharic-speaking central , north and north-west Ethiopia , as well as in the south and in the Ogaden area of the south-east . |
| 19 | It was n't coming out in any special order , though Pascoe suspected that something was being saved until the end . |
| 20 | The SDA was initially set up in 1975 ‘ to provide a regional dimension to complement the UK-wide sectoral interventionism of the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) ’ ( Moor , 1986 , p. 8 ) . |
| 21 | The darkened lobby was again lit up in stark , nightmarish black-and-white . |
| 22 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 23 | A local councillor is claiming tonight that the chemical works which was completely burned out in one of the region 's biggest fires for decades , had been a fire risk for some time . |
| 24 | This album was actually recorded back in 1990 , just after we 'd played with Lloyd Cole , so we 'd got to know each other pretty well . |
| 25 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 26 | The final shaping of the whole assembly was actually carried out in this case after the two were glued together , before final fixing to the chair . |
| 27 | A feature of the in-service programme at Codsall Comprehensive School , for instance , was a guided tour of the school , the Director of Resources showing teachers what was actually going on in other departments . |