Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 2 | Despite minority reservations , Moody and Sankey were rapturously received in 1874 in Inverness , Campbeltown and Oban after international success in Edinburgh and Glasgow to mention but Scotland . |
| 3 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 4 | The children were duly legitimized in a bull of August 1201 because the pope wanted the support of Philip Augustus . |
| 5 | Among other foundations , Queen Margaret ( whose efforts on behalf of the Church were duly recognized in her canonization ) set up her own private chapel on the Castle Rock in Edinburgh , now the oldest surviving building in the city . |
| 6 | The elections were duly held in May 1950 with more than 2,000 candidates standing for 200 positions . |
| 7 | Elsa Chaney found , in her study of women active in government in Peru and Chile in the late 1960s , that they were overwhelmingly engaged in feminine stereotyped tasks related to education , health , social welfare and cultural fields . |
| 8 | President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera suffered a severe setback to his privatization programme , a central plank of his free-market economic policy , when on Dec. 13 five laws providing for the sale of public companies were overwhelmingly rejected in a national referendum . |
| 9 | Consumer goods industries were the linchpin , and these were overwhelmingly located in the West Midlands and in and around Greater London . |
| 10 | Taubman took out $47 million in the first public share offering when Sotheby 's shares were successfully floated in 1988 . |
| 11 | Dosing compliance was similar in the two groups ; an average of 89.5% of eligible children were successfully treated in each round . |
| 12 | But other hostels were successfully established in areas of outstanding beauty or interest , often in historic , unusual buildings . |
| 13 | Village colleges were successfully established in Cambridgeshire in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 14 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 15 | Overbeck 's critique connected directly with the recent rediscovery of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament in the work of Weiss and Schweitzer ; and these were powerfully reinforced in their effect upon Barth by the preaching of J. C. Blumhardt ( 1827 — 91 ) , which had centred on the call to live in the light of the future coming of the kingdom , in which the victory won by God in the death and resurrection of Jesus would at last become apparent . |
| 16 | These eventually were mercifully lost in brown and white ‘ correspondent ’ shoes . |
| 17 | Lord Denning 's views on the liberation of the Court of Appeal from the obligation to follow its own previous decisions were crushingly rebuffed in Davis v Johnson ( [ 1979 ] AC 264 ) in which the authority of Young v. |
| 18 | These mesons were eventually discovered in experiments with cosmic rays — energetic particles from outer space — in 1947 . |
| 19 | These were eventually formalized in the Weber-Fechner law which reported a quantitative relationship between stimulus and subjective experience , the sensation increasing in proportion to the logarithm of the magnitude of the physical stimulus . |
| 20 | Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed . |
| 21 | He also shared in the efforts to end child sacrifices which were eventually prohibited in 1803 . |
| 22 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 23 | Plans to incorporate the cottages into The Globe were made by the brewery in 1983 , but were eventually abandoned in 1987 . |
| 24 | His researches , which led to the discovery of the causes and means of treatment of bovine tuberculosis , were eventually published in his Tuberculosis as regards Heredity in Causation and Elimination from Infected Herds ( 1911 ) . |
| 25 | In 1862 he received a commission from the town of Preston to design a series of parks , to be laid out as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine ; Moor Park , Miller Park , and Avenham Park were eventually opened in 1867 . |
| 26 | However , the rules made when Tessas were eventually launched in January 1991 have remained intact , apart from an extra-statutory concession in October 1992 . |
| 27 | A few sequences were eventually used in BT in modified or abbreviated form . |
| 28 | The important parameters were eventually located in the installation guide which came with the harddisk — a little logic mixed with an educated guess or two provided the other figures and the project was complete . |
| 29 | These were eventually embodied in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949 . |
| 30 | Immigration to Britain from India and Pakistan has followed a slightly different pattern , with the real increase coming in the early 1960s , and later in response to the threat of the immigration controls that were eventually enshrined in a series of Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ( Robinson , 1986 ) . |