Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Regatta being held in Auckland , a city where , during the 1986/87 America 's Cup , the young Dickson was widely believed to walk on water , the latter story was bound to make the biggest impact . |
| 2 | Work was highly differentiated according to sex . |
| 3 | Life became difficult in the erstwhile happy home and the unfortunate girl was only allowed to go for walks in the company of her parents . |
| 4 | The FRISC was apparently intended to go into systems eventually . |
| 5 | Fragments A and D contain ‘ Let ’ verses only , Fragment B contains only ‘ For ’ verses after verse 295 ( ending in verses 695 to 768 which contain the celebrated passage ‘ I will consider my Cat Jeoffry ’ , an animal Smart was apparently allowed to keep at Bethnal Green ) . |
| 6 | Now he was much perturbed to hear of Dunbar 's treachery . |
| 7 | The outbreak of war in 1914 meant that he was regarded as an alien in Britain , though he was soon allowed to move to Rome , where he joined the senate . |
| 8 | It was thus forced to participate in elections under the cover of front parties , currently the Socialist Labour Party . |
| 9 | Having considered two cases ( one of them going back more than 25 years ) , it upheld verdicts in lower courts and ruled that in view of the complex scientific issues involved , the government was best placed to decide on sites and to assess their environmental impact . |
| 10 | By good fortune , Jean Coulter was already booked to travel to Glasgow the following day and very courageously agreed to go to the hotel with a male friend . |
| 11 | My Lords , this appeal arises out of a memorandum of agreement dated 19 December 1930 and said to have created a lease for a term which was not limited to expire by effluxion of time and can not now be determined by the landlord . |
| 12 | On 13th August , it declared that Palmerston was not qualified to comment on architecture : ‘ Art tastes and musical tastes do not come by nature — they are the result of study and education and practice . ’ |
| 13 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 14 | However , she was not equipped to deal with Miss Danziger 's throat spasms . |
| 15 | I was not paid to preside over disasters — however noble the cause . |
| 16 | Until recently , for example , it was not considered to apply between consumers of gas or water and the public industries which supply them . |
| 17 | The normal working was not booked to stop at Chester but the second part , inserted at very short notice , was scheduled to change locomotives there . |
| 18 | In the holidays I was not allowed to watch at home either . ’ |
| 19 | Debate on the budget issue was not allowed to recommence until Feb 26 , following the reluctant agreement of Suzuki and of Jun Shiozaki , a former junior minister , to be cross-questioned on the issue . |
| 20 | HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning , by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops . |
| 21 | He was not allowed to go to Brussels for the European premiere of his play The Crucible . |
| 22 | Sending Ælfgifu and Swegen to Norway perhaps had its advantages here , and maybe Harold Harefoot was not allowed to live at court , which might partly explain alleged doubts about his identity . |
| 23 | I was not allowed to return to Bolivia , so I spent my time and energy denouncing what was happening and setting up solidarity networks . |
| 24 | Even if Nicu was intended to be their ultimate successor , he was not allowed to appear as dauphin , particularly not after making the critical remarks to his father about the economic problems and social conditions in Sibiu . |
| 25 | He was buried in Auchinleck kirkyard but , even in death , he was not allowed to rest in peace . |
| 26 | On days 6–9 after nematode inoculation , when the jejunal segment exhibitd macroscopic and microscopic signs of inflammation , net fluid absorption was noticeably attenuated compared with control and in eight of 26 experiments a net fluid secretion was seen . |
| 27 | The gold coloured Cavalier SRi , snatched from Puddlers Road , South Bank , the previous night , was yesterday found abandoned in Middlesbrough General Hospital car park . |
| 28 | Whether Innocent was ever tempted to stay in Paris and to teach , like his fellow student Stephen Langton , we do not know . |
| 29 | He was quickly invited to play at court , where he delighted the king by playing at sight pieces by J C Bach , Abel , and ( George III 's favourite ) Handel ; playing brilliantly on the organ ; accompanying Queen Charlotte in an aria ; and improvising a melody over a Handelian bass . |
| 30 | The weighbridge was formerly used to weigh in materials brought to the yard for storage before being used on the maintenance of the Lee & Stort Navigation . |