Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baal 's name was latterly adopted as a title of honour , both by other gods and mortal kings and leaders , such as Hanni-bal . |
| 2 | If so , there is work ahead ! ’ and his challenge was duly answered by a broadside . |
| 3 | I was duly elected without a vote being needed , onto the Standing Committee , as were five other people . |
| 4 | The driver concerned was duly issued with a Form 1 , which he refused . |
| 5 | Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics . |
| 6 | He burnt both retinas in his eyes , but was thankfully treated by a doctor in time , and has since completely recovered . |
| 7 | An even lower pH value of below 2.0 was unofficially recorded during a rainstorm in Wheeling , West Virginia , in 1978 . |
| 8 | A new Constitution was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum on Dec. 23 , 1990 . |
| 9 | Activity of SOD in serum reached a maximum of about 100 U/ml after 150 minutes when SOD was subcutaneously injected at a dose of 50000 U/kg . |
| 10 | They collapsed on the ground , gasping , black in the face , their hair covered with charred paper that was slowly settling like a shower of tiny , black , bird 's wings . |
| 11 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |
| 12 | Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic . |
| 13 | Moreover he was perversely drawn to a man so apt to be hated . |
| 14 | The fact that more than five hundred deaf and dumb people , old and no longer able to work , were inmates of workhouses was keenly felt as a blot and the responsibility of the deaf community . |
| 15 | Although the evidence for these flights is little better than anecdotal , sufficient information is available in his published and private papers to make possible the construction of a reproduction of the latter machine , which was successfully flown for a television film in 1972 . |
| 16 | After these manipulations , one clip migrated into the CBD and was successfully removed with a Dormia catheter . |
| 17 | ERCP elsewhere showed a distal obstructing stone , which was successfully removed with a balloon after sphincterotomy . |
| 18 | The two clubs interpreted the rules differently and the title was eventually decided by a tribunal . |
| 19 | Once it evaporated and Darren Wassle was eventually dismissed for a crime which bore no resemblance to the magnitude of the sentence , well Palace must have fancied their chances . |
| 20 | The contract was eventually granted to a company from Australia , which , although a member of COCOM , was not a member of NATO . |
| 21 | The franchise was eventually widened as a result of the Unionist demand , but not as they had expected . |
| 22 | Dyer was eventually censured by a committee of inquiry , but substantial sums were raised for him by public subscription and he was adulated in the press , the House of Commons , and — especially — the House of Lords . |
| 23 | The thrust of German research was eventually to culminate in a position summarised by Rudolf Bultmann of the University of Marburg , one of the most important , most famous and most esteemed of twentieth-century biblical commentators : |
| 24 | He had been tried jointly with another businessman , Jeffrey Smith , who was eventually cleared at a retrial . |
| 25 | He had been tried jointly with another businessman , Jeffrey Smith , who was eventually cleared at a retrial . |
| 26 | And like any dangerous idea , this one was eventually referred to a committee . |
| 27 | The mill saw some use for storage and was eventually converted to a dwelling during the late 1940s . |
| 28 | It was eventually converted to a corn mill , operated during the 1880s by George Lewis who was followed around the turn of the century by Mr J. Nicholls . |
| 29 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 30 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |