Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . |
| 2 | The letter was over the top ; there was never an elaborate pro-Smith conspiracy , although the possibility of his replacing Kinnock was discreetly canvassed at one time . |
| 3 | It is questionable whether the spaying of cows was widely practised at that time , but it is well known that London dairymen were only interested in a continuous milk supply . |
| 4 | Thorne 's ‘ Sports Page ’ , which was highly commended at last year 's Woodworker Show , uses more line than grain for the cartoon effect . |
| 5 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 6 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 7 | She shook her head in disbelief ; everything was suddenly moving at breakneck speed . |
| 8 | Salisbury was much struck at this meeting by Irwin 's confidence in the future . |
| 9 | The first meeting was held on March 2nd and it was stated that a bridge was much wanted at some point between Rochester and Aylesford . |
| 10 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 11 | In 1769 George Coade died , bankrupt , and later in the year Eleanor joined Daniel Pincot , who was already established at Narrow Wall , Lambeth , making a form of artificial stone . |
| 12 | I was just looking at that tree , the way it 's stunted up there , I have n't really noticed before . |
| 13 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 14 | A child was fatally injured at some time between noon and 8.30 pm . |
| 15 | Without Ecuador , whose September decision to quit OPEC [ see p. 39120 ] was formally approved at this meeting , output had been reduced to around 24,700,000 bpd . |
| 16 | Oh that was that was always done at new year time , or at least It was n't so much new year day as we called Yule Day . |
| 17 | The establishment of such new administrative bodies in the remoter parts of the kingdom was a significant move towards building a more unified nation , but the need to create councils in the North and on the Marches is in itself an indication of how England was still divided at this date . |
| 18 | Er well the committee will recall that shortly after it published its report in Spring ninety two , the new German Minister of Defence questioned whether the project was still required at that degree of sophistication . |
| 19 | All of us in the team knew that we were totally dependent on the Lord for any ‘ success ’ — but it was still reassuring at each crusade when Walter would murmur to me as he surveyed the huge first night crowds — ‘ Well , Harvey , that 's your job safe till the next one . |
| 20 | Remembering that her car was still abandoned at Central Station , she took a taxi to where she had left it , and was relieved to find it still waiting there . |
| 21 | And William George of course was still practising at that time . |
| 22 | The gaping division between the settled , Christian , treaty Nez Perce , and the ‘ heathen ’ , non-treaty faction was further widened at this time by the appearance of the Dreamer religion , introduced by a hunch-backed Wanapum holy man named Smohalla . |
| 23 | I must have said something about being in reasonably , good health despite a rather dismal daily round of commuting to Charing Cross and a crawl by bus up the King 's Road to the appropriately named World 's End pub , but that I was more tormented at that time with a clash of affections with two young ladies . |
| 24 | The Clamshell style of demonstration — carefully planned , non-violent protest with a deliberate avoidance of confrontation with the authorities — was quickly followed at other reactor sites . |
| 25 | The post of chief whip was exceptionally demanding at this time because of the constitutional crisis following the Lords ' rejection of the 1909 budget , and the Liberals ' dependence on the Irish party . |
| 26 | The face was probably polished at some time , the reverse is rougher but beaten rather than cast . |
| 27 | The debate was later joined at greater length , following circulation of memoranda by Attlee , Bevin , and the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 28 | I seem to recall that a gentleman called T. Dan Smith was also involved at that time and that he was not a Conservative . |
| 29 | Mackmurdo was also involved at this period with several other pioneer reform movements such as the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings , the Home Arts and Industries Association , and the Art for Schools Association . |
| 30 | Prof Lindemann ( later Lord Cherwell ) was also looking at this state of affairs and originated a study of some 600 aiming-point night photographs to be analysed of our best results to date . |