Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peta was intended only for local defence but there was also the Hei-Ho whose strength in Java was close on 25000 . |
| 2 | Her wound was checked regularly for excess drainage but none was detected . |
| 3 | The Argyll had a container for the gravy and was heated either by hot water being poured into a lining around the gravy or by a hot iron that fitted into a socket . |
| 4 | He was clad only in thin cotton pyjama bottoms . |
| 5 | The Treasury was consulted less about economic matters , and its place in servicing the relevant Cabinet committees was taken by the Economic Section . |
| 6 | About 10 years ago the use of ml and l for millilitres and litres respectively was banished suddenly from British Standards in favour of mL and L , though both are permitted as alternatives by the ISO standard dealing with the layout of standards . |
| 7 | Where he went , if he lost his life in the forest , if he was ripped apart by savage beasts , or if he was still alive , no one knew . |
| 8 | When unhappy circumstances befell him , he was treated differently from other employees in the same circumstances . |
| 9 | Pre-emptive analgesia may be relevant to the management of chronic pain ; a Danish study showed a reduction of phantom limb pain for up to one year when ischaemic pain was treated effectively with epidural analgesia before amputation . |
| 10 | The commitment to devolution in Wales and Scotland was wrung reluctantly from Labour in the Seventies . |
| 11 | CLEARANCE was given yesterday to regional electricity companies in England and Wales to go ahead with plans for gas-fired power plant in a judgment which was seen as a further setback for the coal industry . |
| 12 | News of the pilot projects was given yesterday in Western News , the staff magazine for 16,000 BR employees in the South-west and South Wales . |
| 13 | So the ship was to go briefly near ground-level to set me down by tractor-beam . |
| 14 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 15 | This legitimate expectation was recognized only in public law and not in private law . |
| 16 | Furthermore , excessive emphasis was placed both on measurable landscape attributes and on devising universal methods , while neglecting the social attitudes , feelings and values of the general public . |
| 17 | In a White Paper ( Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and the Reform of the Rating System , 1983 ) blame for this was placed mainly on excessive spending by a small number of authorities , which the government proposed to curtail by a new control mechanism : rate-capping . |
| 18 | Until Pininfarina revealed his masterpiece , Ferrari was sticking resolutely with front-engined cars of which the most interesting was the 275GTB/GTS , although it did n't feature the most exciting shape . |
| 19 | This was eventually formalised in February 1981 in the form of the Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) , a body which was regarded initially with deep suspicion by Soviet officials ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 20 | This last-named was begun in 1090 in the style of S. Martín of Frómista but was completed later under Burgundian auspices . |
| 21 | THE management buy-out of the former Leyland Daf truck manufacturing plant in Lancashire was completed yesterday after last-minute negotiations throughout the night . |
| 22 | A moment to consider this , then my father had closed the door gently , returned to the wheel and had proceeded to continue the tour of the three villages — a tour , Mr Charles assured me , that was completed thereafter in near silence . |
| 23 | He was received everywhere with great acclaim , except in Bratislava and Komarno where he was heckled by small groups of Slovak nationalists . |
| 24 | The type was developed considerably by German growers , with more amenable size , choice blooms and scent , becoming known as Hybrid Musks . |
| 25 | Though the extensive story telling of the Bible and Gospels was developed especially in Gothic architecture , in the great portals and walls , Romanesque work too tells this story . |
| 26 | The ‘ insipid monotony ’ of a social life without a press ( only two government papers were tolerated ) , without clubs , without ‘ respectable cafes ’ , was broken only by religious and court festivals . |
| 27 | The strike was broken only by widespread flogging and imprisonment , but it was clear that if the Danzig Poles — by tradition the meekest of them all — were willing to protest , then Polish resistance as a whole must have stiffened considerably . |
| 28 | It was diagnosed eventually as congenital heart failure , though at first doctors thought it was liver failure , but it had also affected the lungs . |
| 29 | Sicilian wealth and power was coveted both by outside powers and by Syracuse , the greatest polis of Sicily down to Roman times . |
| 30 | ‘ Tuck ’ was confined officially to fresh fruit and plain chocolate , and all books and magazines were censored , although as Mr Douglas recalls : ‘ I do n't suppose our own minds were any cleaner than those of today . ’ |