Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the death , on 29 June 1523 , of Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ‘ the rich clothier ’ , his commercial empire had been dismantled , and his immense fortune , £3,200 net , dispersed among his heirs , most of it to his widow and daughter ; his son had already chosen to live as a gentleman and was duly taxed on £20 from lands in 1524 , and the firm ceased trading . |
| 2 | Mr Edwards accepted and was duly elected as Treasurer until the election of Officers at the next Annual General Meeting . |
| 3 | The support manoeuvre had been undertaken in order to outbid an existing takeover offer for Distillers from the Argyll supermarket group ; in April 1986 a majority of Distillers ' shareholders voted to accept the Guinness bid , then valued at £2,700 million ( US$5,180 million ) , and the merger of Guinness and Distillers was duly completed after clearance from the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 4 | The Baker-Aziz meeting was duly held in Geneva on Jan. 9 ; although it lasted six hours , no progress was made . |
| 5 | Accordingly , at the adjourned hearing before Theobalds J. on 3 October a nolle prosequi was duly entered by direction of the D.P.P. |
| 6 | Everett was duly interviewed for suitability in a hall in Shepherd 's Bush on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 7 | The Worcestershire bowlers and fielders began to find their form when Notts skipper , Tim Robinson was acrobatically caught by Neale off Illingworth for 5 . |
| 8 | There was an outbreak of infection with this organism in Liverpool in 1976 , which was thankfully controlled by dint of exhaustive contact-tracing , and there have only been sporadic single cases since then , mostly imported from abroad . |
| 9 | PAUL GASCOIGNE took over the crown was unofficially crowned of king of world football here last night as he gloriously won his personal duel with Maradona with a wonder goal that had ‘ made in heaven ’ stamped all over it . |
| 10 | This information was verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 , who asked that further studies be done to be available by October 1981 . |
| 11 | In the eighteenth century the civil administration was overwhelmingly staffed by men of noble origin . |
| 12 | She was lavishly dressed in costumes by Yves St Laurent of Paris and Valentino of Rome , and the film was shot in the beautiful settings of Cannes and the French Riviera , but Crawford soon realized that his co-star was no actress . |
| 13 | His journey took him through Austrasia , where he was hospitably received by members of the aristocracy . |
| 14 | Alleyne ( 1980 : 184 ) attributes the post-Creole continuum to the social stratification of the old plantation society itself : whereas there was a high degree of sociological homogeneity within the slave population arising from the fact that it was a slave population , this society was hierarchically structured in terms of status of occupation , privileges , and access to the culture of the masters . |
| 15 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 16 | This story was completely untrue and was successfully challenged in front of the Press Council . |
| 17 | In 100 women undergoing termination of pregnancy , coelomic fluid was successfully aspirated in 96% of cases at 6–10 weeks ' gestation , 42% at 11 , and 10% at 12 weeks . |
| 18 | Fear of the political consequences frustrated a public trial of the technology in Britain , but a low-tech variation was successfully pioneered in Singapore in 1975 . |
| 19 | The species was successfully re-established in Perthshire with birds from Sweden in the 1830s . |
| 20 | A former Portuguese colony , the predominantly Catholic East Timor was forcibly incorporated into Indonesia in 1976 [ see pp. 27906-07 ] , and closed to the outside world for 13 years , during which time some 200,000 Timorese were killed or died of starvation , according to human rights groups . |
| 21 | This provincial brumaire was bitterly criticized by civilians of the Central Junta : Jovellanos could neither forgive nor forget Romana 's ‘ tyranny ’ . |
| 22 | It was commercially cut for reeds until the 1950s , which meant it was kept in good order but then cutting stopped and later the River Hundred was straightened because there was so much flooding at Knodishall . |
| 23 | Arrested and interned by the Germans , Adair was eventually moved from Bayonne to Fresne . |
| 24 | He was eventually rewarded with work on a prestigious construction project in New Guinea . |
| 25 | William , though himself without a helmet , fought like a lion to avenge his uncle 's death but was eventually overborne by weight of numbers as well as by another sword thrust from behind — and carried off into captivity . |
| 26 | He gave shelter to Cenwealh when he was driven out of the territory of the upper Thames valley Saxons by Penda ( HE 111 , 7 ) and he was eventually slain in battle by Penda ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |
| 27 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 28 | The seventh congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) was eventually held in Hanoi on June 24-27 [ for previous party congress , in December 1986 , see pp. 35067-8 ] , after delays attributed to the intense debate within the party over economic and political policy [ see p. 38149 ] . |
| 29 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 30 | He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management . |