Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 2 | He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting . |
| 3 | The evidence on housing interiors given by the Women 's Labour League to the Tudor Walters Committee on Housing Design at the end of the War proved influential , although housing policy generally was formulated more from a fear of unrest by working class men than with the needs of working class women in mind . |
| 4 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 5 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 6 | He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing . |
| 7 | The bed was tucked modestly into a corner of the room . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 9 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 10 | VisionWare , based in Leeds , was formed recently as a management buy-out from Systime ( tel. : 0532 529292 ) . |
| 11 | When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert . |
| 12 | The EDC was treated almost as an afterthought . |
| 13 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 14 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 15 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 17 | In one well-remembered case Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had tried to insist that he should have the marriage of the probable heiress to the Viscount of Limoges , but the nobles of the Limousin , fearing " the Poitevin yoke " , successfully resisted this demand and she was given instead to a Count of Angoulême . |
| 18 | A capsule of SeHCAT ( 10 µCi , Amersham International ) was given orally with a drink of water and the initial count rate ( 100% value ) was measured three hours after the intake of isotope ( day 0 ) , by an uncollimated gamma camera ( Porta Camera , General Electric Nuclear Medical ApS , Horsholm , Denmark ) . |
| 19 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |
| 20 | Even when a small office was given almost as an act of charity , there would usually be a political motive in the background . |
| 21 | Equally it is inadequate to say the promise was given solely as a response to the political pressure of wartime radicalism . |
| 22 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 23 | ‘ I think the cairn was placed there as a landmark to guide Bronze Age pilgrims to the rings of stone , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Evaluation of the Trust 's activities was undertaken principally via a questionnaire of a sample of past clients ( n=78 , a response rate of 39 percent ) , supplementing this with a systematic monitoring of enquiries at the Powys Self Help office ( using self record diaries over a two week period ) and conducting interviews with individuals associated with the organisation . |
| 25 | ‘ When Euston was first built ’ , reported a Victorian commentator in 1896 , ‘ it was regarded not as a railway station but as a spectacle . |
| 26 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 27 | Personal misfortune was regarded either as a test of faith which had to be patiently endured , or as a punishment for past transgressions requiring deep repentance . |
| 28 | Death was treated with a certain deference , although the passing of a sitting MP was regarded either as a blessing in disguise ( ‘ never liked him ’ ) or , if the Party was unpopular , as a confounded nuisance , a by-election inevitably leading to exposure , expense and humiliating defeat . |
| 29 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 30 | In 1984 and 1985 , the Rokkaku challenge , as it was to become known , was a feature of the AKA conventions ; though it was regarded more as a participant than a spectator event . |