Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 2 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 3 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 4 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 5 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 6 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |
| 7 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |
| 8 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 9 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 10 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |
| 11 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 12 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 13 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |
| 14 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 15 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 16 | One was doomed when a bucket of coal was tipped on to a blazing fire and the flames eroded the dust covering , ate at the brittle papier-mâché , flickered at the softness of the plastic bag . |
| 17 | Her chin was tipped up by a ruthless finger . |
| 18 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 19 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 20 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 21 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 22 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 23 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |
| 24 | In addition , a time series test was carried out on a random sample of 254 of these issues . |
| 25 | Extensive conservation work was carried out on an important manuscript map of the Isle of Lewis , produced by Alexander Gibbs in 1817 . |
| 26 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 27 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 28 | He registered with a G.P. near his London home who contacted his District Health Authority who readily agreed to finance his brain operation as an extra contractual referral , and surgery was carried out within a short space of time . |
| 29 | RT-PCR was carried out by a modified Wang method ( 2 ) measuring optical density using a Sun Spark Station ( Visage software , Millipore , US ) ( data not shown ) . |
| 30 | A review and analysis of SSAP 15 was carried out by a working party of the institute 's research committee following a request from the Accounting Standards Board . |