Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aquileia was a Roman centre and the original basilican cathedral was erected early in the fourth century but was destroyed by Attila the Hun a few years later . |
| 2 | The Isle of Man 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr David Cannan , was dismissed yesterday in the Manx government 's first ever Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 3 | This was gathered together in the final session . |
| 4 | The fourth-seeded American looked sluggish as his serve was broken twice in the first set by the unseeded Swede Magnus Gustafsson , who went on to win their quarter-final 6-2 , 7-6 , clinching the tiebreak 7-4 . |
| 5 | The reason for the rule was explained further in the same year in Rex v. St. John 's College , Cambridge ( 1694 ) 4 Mod.Rep. 233 , 241 : |
| 6 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 7 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 8 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 9 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , substantial progress has been made in reducing overcrowding , as of facially defined . |
| 10 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 11 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 12 | Tension was reported also in the medical and telecommunications sectors , where strike action was being threatened to back demands for better conditions . |
| 13 | After news of the drawing was reported recently in the Italian press he received tips from all over Europe about other missing Leonardos . |
| 14 | The father 's balanced sentiment was reported only in the Daily Mail . |
| 15 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 16 | This broad vision of the Soviet and indeed global future was carried forward in the late 1980s and early 1990s by a group of reform-minded academics and commentators , among them Fedor Burlatsky , Boris Kurashvili and Anatolii Butenko . |
| 17 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 18 | This axiomatising process was carried further in the 1920s and 1930s by Emmy Noether , the greatest of all women algebraists . |
| 19 | The final honing was carried out in the usual fashion , using slipstones and strop . |
| 20 | Also in deference to their preferences , the building was carried out in the Early English Gothic style , its structural brickwork being faced externally with Kentish ragstone dressed with Bath stone at corners and door and window openings . |
| 21 | The endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was carried out in the standard manner using an Olympus or Pentax sideviewing endoscope under antibiotic cover . |
| 22 | Nearly all research in communist East Germany was carried out in the 57 institutes of the Academy of Sciences , with universities being given little chance to conduct serious research . |
| 23 | From the fourteenth century onwards considerable building was carried out in the Gothic style . |
| 24 | Haider , in office since 1989 [ see pp. 37688 ; 36596 ] , had caused a furore by declaring on June 13 during a Landtag ( provincial parliament ) debate that " an orderly employment policy was carried out in the Third Reich , which the government in Vienna can not manage " . |
| 25 | The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced . |
| 26 | It was rebuilt early in the 19th century by Hicks , who installed steam power . |
| 27 | Of the structures of medieval Stockport , only two sections of the town walls ( of rough dressed red sandstone ) and the chancel of the Parish church ( in decorated Gothic ) remain : the rest of the church was rebuilt early in the 19th century . |
| 28 | The school established in East Looe , whose boys were dressed by a charitable fund in light blue coats and caps and were known as ‘ blue boys ’ , also was dissolved early in the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 30 | Interestingly , the root was located either in the eukaryotic branch or in the archaebacterial domain , but never in the eubacterial branch . |