Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
2 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
3 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
4 | La finta semplice ( The Pretended Simpleton ) , an opera buffa based on a play by Goldoni , was duly performed in the Archbishop of Salzburg 's palace theatre on 1 May 1769 , to the satisfaction of its 13-year-old composer . |
5 | This was duly installed in the turbine house with an air line running up the hill and was programmed to blow air under the leaves every so often . |
6 | This was duly reflected in the jade inventory . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | So for the potential crime of the bad men , all of whom seemed perfectly pleasant , sentence was passed on Melinda , who was duly imprisoned in the hold . |
9 | Ministers agreed , and a Bill was duly introduced in the House of Lords . |
10 | After the decline of Kiev , a new centre of power and influence was slowly established in the region of Moscow . |
11 | Racial prejudice was avidly preached in the past in order to justify the extermination of the indigenous peoples of the Americas . |
12 | The technique was successfully demonstrated in the Carnmenellis granite in the course of a project undertaken in collaboration with the Camborne School of Mines and others to study hot dry rocks . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | In 1985 Belau had defaulted on the loans from foreign banks financing the project and was successfully sued in the US courts [ see p. 36701 ] . |
15 | By means of an appeal to Lenin , Bashkirs were able to secure some positions in the government , only to have their agreement with Moscow cancelled a year later when Bashkiria was forcibly incorporated in the RSFSR . |
16 | That order was eventually discovered in the teachings of Christianity . |
17 | Randall Yarwood was eventually confirmed in the office by the Company on probation on 8th August 1645 , but lasted only until Good Friday of the following year . |
18 | He was eventually placed in the custody of the Earl Marshal , the Earl of March , while Lyons was sentenced to imprisonment and all his goods were forfeited . |
19 | The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 . |
20 | Hughes looked in depth at a single thesis , to assess the extent to which the information content of the thesis was eventually published in the literature . |
21 | The textile industry was predominantly concentrated in the Glasgow area , but there were woollen mills in the Borders and jute-working in Dundee . |
22 | The learned and scientific academies took in general a different course , since education in their disciplines was predominantly centred in the universities . |
23 | Perhaps what was most lacking in the left 's criticism of A Very British Coup was any general discussion of the distinct importance of television as a medium and , more specifically , the question of what makes it such a potentially politically effective medium . |
24 | In Bede 's opinion , Aldfrith was most learned in the Scriptures ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
25 | This difference was most marked in the case of Yugoslav exports to West Germany . |
26 | It was where depression was most marked in the morning and decreased during the course of the day . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Originally the yarn for the cloth was hand-spun from wool by the crofters of Lewis and was wholly produced in the Isle . |
29 | The sharp opposition of state and civil society was fundamentally altered in the years of the Weimar Republic when a much friendlier set of public bodies served partly as framework for the Bauhaus , and for Brecht 's and Piscator 's theatre . |
30 | England would have had six existing internationals in the team but Kevin Stamp was accidently hit in the mouth by a stick at the training weekend and has withdrawn . |