Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the notion of women 's dual roles ( paid work and the family ) was overwhelmingly applied only to middle-class women . |
| 2 | It started life in the cloth trade but , as with many other Woodchester mills , was eventually turned over to other uses . |
| 3 | The Poor Law Office , on the other hand , inheriting the most utilitarian forms of social disciplining , was fundamentally opposed both to medical expertise and to any further large-scale financial outlay in aid of poor relief . |
| 4 | He was badly beaten up by late substitute Carl Thompson , who scaled 13st 3lb — around 17lb more than Benn will weigh tonight — and went on to become British cruiserweight champion . |
| 5 | A taste for wearing amber was widely taken up among allied groups in south Germany and north Italy , at the head of the Adriatic . |
| 6 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 7 | Every year each region 's allocation was merely rolled forward with small additions to the previous year 's spending and extra to meet the current costs of new hospital premises . |
| 8 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 9 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 10 | Still worse , her mind was recurrently invaded now by carnal fantascies . |
| 11 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 12 | It was soon taken up by other French writers , many of whom were attracted by its reminiscences of the Greek phalanx of classical times , and a prolonged controversy between the advocates of the new system and those of the traditional line formation developed . |
| 13 | The whole structure was thus made up of crystalline regions imbedded randomly in a continuous amorphous matrix . |
| 14 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 15 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 16 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |
| 17 | Their community was largely made up of American slaves who had fled across the border to freedom in a British territory . |
| 18 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 19 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 20 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 21 | The P3A + variant of α subunit was found to be constitutively expressed in skeletal muscle , brain , heart , kidney , liver , lung and thymus , while P3A - variant was differentially expressed only in skeletal muscle . |
| 22 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |
| 23 | The same determination , which was often frighteningly apparent in his 250 days , came bursting through again and yet Ruggia was usually held back by poorly set-up machinery . |
| 24 | This move was executed overnight , with little time to spare , for Kluck , believing both French and British forces already defeated , was still marching westward at maximum speed and would shortly have been able to envelop the BEF 's left flank . |
| 25 | But to return to our historical account , as if the picture was not already complicated enough , the Ministry of Education found its own way of promoting drama — to align it with Physical Education , a policy which was gradually put forward by certain Inspectors for Physical Education over a period of 20 years from about 1945 . |
| 26 | Stoke actually hit the back of the net in the 59th minute , but Kevin Russell was controversially pulled up for off-side . |
| 27 | Even his involvement with Freemasonry was probably dictated more by practical considerations than by any close identification with the higher spiritual aims of the movement . |
| 28 | The word ‘ elf ’ was later applied only to small fairy boys ; witness Titania 's decision ‘ to make my small elves … coats ’ . |
| 29 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 30 | Perinatal ( mother-to-child ) transmission of HIV , already responsible for 900,000 out of some seven million cases in Africa , was also rising rapidly in industrialized countries . |