Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 2 | Although the later words of section 63(2) provide that the expense incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of a benefit includes a proper proportion of any expense relating partly to the benefit and partly to other matters , I consider that the expenses incurred in provision of places for fee paying pupils were wholly incurred in order to provide those places . |
| 3 | In fact we were slowly falling in love , and when one late afternoon Eric kissed me as we were leaving the garden , I was not surprised . |
| 4 | Meager ( 1986 ) showed that in 1984 such employment strategies were widely applied in relation to personal service , office and manual workers and to some extent to the recruitment of managerial , technical and professional staff . |
| 5 | As in stone-built barns , slits were widely used in brick structures and they were generally arranged in rows . |
| 6 | Plastics — that here leave little to the imagination — were widely used in fashion . |
| 7 | In fact , even this formulation is doubtful , since , at the time , the concepts of ‘ French ’ , ‘ Italian ’ or ‘ German ’ were insecurely anchored in reality . |
| 8 | Nobody knew what legal matters they had to sort out as they were spied from Martindale 's Gate traversing the shrubbery paths of The Hall in deep conversation , and they were rarely seen in company in the village except on an occasional outing together to buy postage stamps . |
| 9 | The organizers were rarely charged in court , probably because such a prosecution would have met with an unpleasant response . |
| 10 | At any rate , in those days such matters were rarely discussed in detail , let alone in a London Club , and we did not pursue the subject . |
| 11 | Its walls were ornately corniced in gold and papered in watered silk , a delicate bluebell colour . |
| 12 | Perhaps in deference to the Greek drama , they were remarkably lacking in plot or incident . |
| 13 | In Nicholas 's reign soldiers rarely had to deal with large-scale disturbances in the Russian part of the empire ( apart from the rebellion of the Novgorod military colonists in 1831 ) , but since the bureaucracy was small ( relative to the size of the empire 's population ) they were constantly engaged in business which other societies left to civilians . |
| 14 | As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency . |
| 15 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 16 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 17 | Some authorities were better organized in relation to UDG submissions , and some areas were simply not regarded as attractive to the market — even when UDG was taken into account . |
| 18 | Since those relations were daily growing in importance with the increase in trade , it was becoming more and more essential that all should try and give life to that necessary fiction of government that every man knew the laws of his country . |
| 19 | There was a long silence , as if he were so fixed in despair he could n't speak . |
| 20 | However , E. F. Mott , Director of Education in Liverpool ( whose children were so resented in North Wales ) , found the proportion of verminous children in three Liverpool schools in poor areas to be 18% , 18% ( after inspection ) and 30% ( an estimate ) . |
| 21 | The situations chosen were so chosen in order to achieve a reasonable level of plural continuations . |
| 22 | After the first round of hanging reforms some forty years earlier , capital statutes were greatly reduced in number by the legislative changes of the early 1860s as a result of which the only common crime punishable by the death penalty became murder . |
| 23 | Their eyes were identically glazed in male and female as they stood on either side of a seated broadclothed patriarch . |
| 24 | Overnight cultures of E coli on nutrient agar slopes were gently resuspended in phosphate buffered saline with D-mannose to a standard turbidity ( MacFarland 's no 9 ) . |
| 25 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 26 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 27 | These were : the Domanov Cossacks ( Gens Domanov and Krasnov ) the Cossack Training Unit ( Gen Shkuro ) the Caucasians ( Gen Kelich Ghirei ) 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps ( Gen von Pannwitz ) the White Russian Schutzkorps ( Col Rogozhin ) 1st Ukrainian Division ( Gens Shandruk and Freytag ; Col Krat ) The first four of these were generally described in situation reports as " Cossacks " , the Schutzkorps were described as " White Russians " and the 1st Ukrainian Division as " Ukrainians " . |
| 28 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 29 | They were not kept in suspense for more than five minutes . |
| 30 | Most respondents ( 76% ) relied on their own medical adviser to agree the protocols for purposes of payment , but only 49% of the people making these decisions had any expertise in asthma care ; 15% relied on individuals who were not trained in medicine or nursing . |