Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebleeding was successfully controlled in some patients with treatment by a second injection . |
| 2 | He was presumably influenced in this direction by the churchmen around him , among whom Wilfrid is conspicuous for his known familiarity with the see of St Peter . |
| 3 | An attempt by the Hungarian emigré organization , Transylvanian Magyar World Federation , to organize a cross-border demonstration was widely condemned in both countries and did not materialize . |
| 4 | The very term ‘ lunatic ’ , which was widely used in this discourse , implies a lay psychological theory : the term denotes people whose thinking is disrupted from logicality by personality or stupidity . |
| 5 | Although National Party parliamentary leader Jim Bolger denounced the agreement as " a panic move " , it was widely welcomed in many quarters . |
| 6 | This is not highly encouraging , and perhaps it is not surprising that although the need for formal systematic planning was noted in our sample , and the concept of appraisal was mentioned by a small number of respondents , evaluation was rarely described in any depth , although 62% of the programmes described by the data sheets indicated that an assessment procedure was employed . |
| 7 | The density of lamina propria lymphocytes was somewhat increased in most groups of coeliac patients , but this showed considerable variability and did not exhibit the same relationship to dietary status ( Table ) . |
| 8 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman gave his usual vintage performance , with many justified facts and views , and it was warmly received in all parts of the House , not only for its humour but for some of his more sombre comments about the present ominous geophysical appearance of Europe . |
| 10 | I was warmly welcomed in all cases and an enthusiastic and positive attitude prevailed although mixed with understandable anxiety concerning the radical changes proposed . |
| 11 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 12 | Being consecrated Bishop in March , 1077 , he was soon engaged in many building projects . |
| 13 | I was soon turning in more stories of my own choice and selection than those by regular assignment . |
| 14 | It was half-heartedly applied in many districts and this was effectively sanctioned by the obvious lack of government enthusiasm ; it suffered from cumbersome and inexpert administration worsened by a shortage of full-time paid officials ; from reliance on uncertain voluntary funding and , above all , from its central assumption that work could by these means be provided for those in need . |
| 15 | Although Buchanan 's share was reduced to 26 per cent , the result was nevertheless interpreted in most quarters as a less than full endorsement of the President . |
| 16 | Perhaps the memory was already buried in some corner of his mind . |
| 17 | It was not the written disclaimer but the understanding between the buyer and seller which meant that the false trade description was not applied in this case . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom introduced legislation requiring the fitting of a ‘ dim-dip ’ device , invoking safety grounds , but it was held that the EEC directives on motor vehicle headlights regulated the matter in an exhaustive manner , so that a Member State could not require a form of lighting which was not listed in those directives . |
| 19 | This procedure obviously was not followed in this case and Turning Point is looking into what happened . ’ |
| 20 | Ed 's Note : the headline ‘ Selective Conscience ’ in the April/May issue was not intended in any way to call Vic Williams ' position into question . |
| 21 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |
| 22 | Algebra was not tested in this project as it is not explicitly included in the foundation list , and so is the only content category of the framework missing from the topics considered in this chapter listed below . |
| 23 | ( 194 ) He was very soon made to understand that he was not wanted in that corner of it where old Lingard and his own weak will placed him … |
| 24 | Such integration effects were also seen using the Short construct plus or minus the X and Y box , as the phenotype of interest ( thymic expression ) was not seen in all cases ( 46 ) . |
| 25 | Host surrogacy , I V F surrogacy was not done in this country erm so we ha we made the decision to go ahead as it was with partial surrogacy . |
| 26 | That was not done in this case and as a result this matter comes on for appeal with only three weeks of a two-and-a-half month order to run . |
| 27 | ‘ We received warnings that mentioned four specific streets and the second bomb went off in a street which was not named in those warnings , ’ he said . |
| 28 | This was not planned in any way ; it just happened . |
| 29 | Even if the rock was not broken in such circumstances , the fiery blast shooting forth from the hole could inflict awful injury . |
| 30 | The bare infinitive expresses a possibility which was not realized in this use and is therefore conceived in the same way as it is with the modal auxiliaries , as a mere potential , except for the fact that no particular form of potentiality is attributed to it . |