Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surveyor was duly appointed by the parties under the lease . |
| 2 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
| 3 | And she was duly guided round the shops and revamped . |
| 4 | Tom Jones and Duff argued for resignation , and Lady Astor helped to sway Dawson to the same line , which was duly reflected in The Times leader of Monday morning . |
| 5 | As he spoke , he looked at Ludovico , who was furiously plucking at the strings of his racket and gazing at the ground . |
| 6 | Gould was verbally abused at The Hawthorns before his departure and at one protest supporters paraded with a coffin on their shoulders . |
| 7 | Being entirely devoid of miners , striking or otherwise , Northern Ireland treated the election as a referendum on the power-sharing system and was overwhelmingly convinced by the loyalists . |
| 8 | was slowly inducted into the ways of the scientist — a particular type of scientist also — the ‘ pure ’ ’ researcher ’ . |
| 9 | Half nude , she held onto a big , round glass ball which was slowly lowered from the flies and poised above the stalls . |
| 10 | Yet Jaq feared that for all its power the Imperium was slowly succumbing to the attentions of aliens , of renegades , of daemons . |
| 11 | I could tell that my questioning was slowly turning off the taps of their charm . |
| 12 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 13 | The garrison consisted of 200 regulars , plus some Argyllshire militia , and was vastly outnumbered by the Jacobites , but the defenders enjoyed naval support , for several vessels lay alongside the fort and assisted its guns in some effective counter-battery fire . |
| 14 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 15 | It was successfully tested over the deserts of New Mexico on 16 July 1945 , before the war with Japan was over . |
| 16 | It is curious , or perhaps not so curious , that a number of fundamental common law concepts in everyday use are still statutorily undefined , for example , murder , manslaughter , contract , defamation , negligence ( though the concept of duty of care was successfully defined in the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 ) . |
| 17 | Logic points to the emergence of a party that draws on both the Marxist traditions of the Prague Spring and on the social-democratic movement that was forcibly amalgamated with the Communists after 1948 . |
| 18 | Self 's victory was bitterly resented by the engineers and , on his return , Pask tried ( unsuccessfully ) to overturn it . |
| 19 | ‘ The workers ' attempt to defend their interests by forming trades unions was bitterly resisted by the employers . |
| 20 | That order was eventually discovered in the teachings of Christianity . |
| 21 | Although access was eventually gained to the sites by obtaining court injunctions , the battle for hearts and minds was already lost . |
| 22 | They also knew they were not connected with the humanitarian assistance programme ( NHAO ) that was eventually run for the contras by the State Department , since those aircraft were ‘ beautiful brand-new L-100s , the most beautifully painted things ’ . |
| 23 | In the event , the CEP evidence was eventually given by the individuals responsible under the banner of the then Cornwall-based campaigner George Pritchard , although it would undoubtedly have helped its status to be seen as part of the local councils ' case . |
| 24 | Some compensation was eventually paid to the villagers by the Board of Trade , after much prevarication and talk of ‘ natural causes ’ ; the fact was the Board had permitted the dredging operation without foreseeing the consequences . |
| 25 | But the game failed to excite the Russian elite and was eventually banned by the Tsars as a rowdy pastime . |
| 26 | The learned and scientific academies took in general a different course , since education in their disciplines was predominantly centred in the universities . |
| 27 | In Bede 's opinion , Aldfrith was most learned in the Scriptures ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 28 | He was most understanding about the needs of our party . |
| 29 | My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating . |
| 30 | Reports said that the Dec. 6 attack on the mosque was effectively abetted by the guards , some 200 paramilitary troops of the state-controlled Provincial Armed Constabulary ( PAC ) which was known for its pro-Hindu leanings ; they had allegedly stood aside and allowed militants to demolish the mosque 's structure . |