Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffin furniture was also exported to the colonies , it being so cheap to buy that it was unnecessary to produce it in far-flung corners of the Empire . |
| 2 | Dr Neil — she could not think of him as Neil — was careful to hold her in such a way that she felt no restraint , although his own self-control was slowly beginning to slip . |
| 3 | ‘ I was supposed to take you in dead , ’ muttered K ! sdra sullenly . |
| 4 | Sigeric 's successor , Ælfric , recovered it , but N.P. Brooks has pointed out that other losses would have left no trace in the Canterbury records if they were not regained , and Thietmar of Merseburg says that Archbishop Ælfheah was unable to ransom himself in 1012 because of dire poverty . |
| 5 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 6 | Some years before , he had founded in his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon a chapel in honour of St Thomas Becket and he was inclined to see himself in that tradition of defiance of the crown . |
| 7 | Once this was conceded , the next step would be to move to their becoming semi-independent public bodies ( much the same might happen to hospitals and other public services ) , with the ‘ freedom to manage ’ without regard to political pressure from local electors or ‘ vested interests ’ ( trade unions and professionals ) and the freedom to cut labour costs ( the main item in service budgets ) by paying people only what it was necessary to pay them in that local market . |