Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view was most strongly expressed in respect of music and drama . |
| 2 | Some countships were more equal than others : a " greater " count was presumably so called in part because his civitas was richer and more important , for instance , as a central place in one of the regna ( like Angers in Neustria , or Autun in Burgundy ) . |
| 3 | Petrol was so strictly rationed in wartime that bikes were always in demand . |
| 4 | Ally Donaldson , to his credit , gave the impression of being grimly determined to answer those who say he does n't tackle but he was not the naturally punitive defender who was so badly needed in view of the back row 's shortcomings . |
| 5 | He found that he could pay a compliment to Charles Raven , from whom he was so sadly sundered in spirit , for his book on Religion and Science . |
| 6 | Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body . |
| 7 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 8 | A main reason why lapis lazuli was so highly regarded in antiquity was the brilliance of its colour , blue flecked with gold . |
| 9 | Encouragement of such careful discrimination was perhaps also reflected in agent Clarkson 's other main function in the late 1780s — the establishment of local committees through consultation with influential individuals in communities . |
| 10 | Jackie had a nasty puncture in practice on the 150-m.p.h. straight and though he was not injured , his Matra was only just repaired in time for the race . |
| 11 | It was only just finished in time : according to Constanze , the overture ( the last section to be composed ) was completed just two days before the premiere . |
| 12 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 13 | She was already far advanced in pregnancy , and soon fell gravely ill . |
| 14 | I then said I was a friend of Sir Randolph Routh and that if the agent was not immediately taken in charge for assault , I should send in the strongest adverse report on his conduct of this entire vile business . |
| 15 | Mr. Thorpe had available to him a quicker way to secure the referral that he was seeking to the unit in Birmingham , so the process was not finally concluded in north Devon . |
| 16 | However , the argument between the two schools of thought was not finally settled in favor of the atomists until the early years of this century . |
| 17 | Accordingly in many households women spun , even though the household as a whole was not primarily engaged in textile production . |
| 18 | In summary , evidence from several independent data sources indicate that our ascertainment method was not systematically biased in respect of the study 's main findings . |
| 19 | The option of a ‘ Swedish solution ’ , by means of a merger with Volvo , was not seriously considered in view of the restructuring and job losses considered to be inevitable from the merger of two specialist car manufacturers . |
| 20 | The statue is a fine example of early Imperial art but in a poor state of conservation ; the surface was not only covered in earth and partly oxidised but badly corroded . |
| 21 | Lord Beauchamp said his bill was not only founded in charity but good policy . |
| 22 | Even her needlework , at which she constantly prodded during bumpy aeroplane journeys , was not really undertaken in order to produce a fine object but as an aid to entering another world of deep thought and reflection . |
| 23 | The ponderous machinery of the Forest Eyre was once again set in motion — in Berkshire and in Surrey for Windsor Forest , and in Wiltshire , Hampshire and Somerset . |
| 24 | At 2.00 p.m. as the doors opened before the flood of Medau girls surging through , the 1979 reunion was once again set in motion ; one thousand tickets sold and every one being used . |
| 25 | To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse . |
| 26 | She stopped trying to move herself voluntarily , and relied on nurses to move her arm and leg for her , so that their task was to ensure that she was always correctly positioned in relation to her spasticity , after they had performed the normal nursing duties of bathing her and helping her on and off the commode . |
| 27 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 28 | From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display . |
| 29 | First , he said , the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be . |
| 30 | The spin-up itself was also partly resolved in time , and the whole event , glitch plus recovery , is now seen to include three distinct exponential components , with timescales of 1 , 20 and 300 days . |