Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was duly dispatched the following morning with Aurangzeb 's chief eunuch , I'tibar Khan . |
| 2 | By 1982 , the Minority Rights Group in London was unofficially estimating the Muslim population was more than two million while the Christians numbered barely 1.5 million . |
| 3 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 4 | This first wave of West Walians to the new industrial areas of north-eastern South Wales brought a distinctive radical , nonconformist , and Welsh-speaking element to a pastoral community that had remained largely conservative and unchanged from the late seventeenth century and was slowly losing the old Welsh language — rapidly so in Monmouthshire — and along with it any acute sense of separate national identity . |
| 5 | One way to discourage such demands was secretly to salt a shallow anchorage with a bag of rotted chicken heads which would quickly draw a sinuous and evil-looking pack of otherwise harmless sand sharks that would twist menacingly under our keel and persuade the paying customers to seek the deeper darker waters offshore . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the 1980s , Mozambique had a National Health Service ( NHS ) that was successfully implementing a primary health care ( PHC ) philosophy . |
| 7 | In the nine patients in whom H pylori was successfully eradicated the median basal-subtracted EC 5 fell significantly , from 104 ( 18–171 , 95% CI 53–150 ) to 48 ( 26–136 , 95% CI 34–103 ) pmol/l ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , there was some evidence that the NPA was successfully shifting the central focus of its campaign from its traditional rural areas of operation to urban centres , particularly Manila . |
| 9 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 10 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |
| 11 | Great Yarmouth was successfully awarded a long term contract with Shell Expro , while Falkirk and Milford Haven increased their market share in support of the onshore petro-chemical industry . |
| 12 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 13 | The submarine , which was eventually to provide the best means of delivering the torpedo , was still an infant ; only one or two curious submersible craft had been built and they had not yet affected naval thinking . |
| 14 | Aston was eventually offered a temporary place in a hostel occupied exclusively by men , many of whom have been recently released from prison or who have drug problems . |
| 15 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 16 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 17 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 18 | By renouncing the CGDK label , Sihanouk was effectively distancing the tripartite resistance from the Khmer Rouge " Democratic Kampuchea " regime of the mid- to late 1970s . |
| 19 | He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days . |
| 20 | By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order . |
| 21 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 22 | Thus the civil war was powerfully to reinforce the centrifugal tendencies at work within the economy , and as Carr noted : |
| 23 | He was widely considered a strong supporter of further European integration . |
| 24 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 25 | His mind was gleefully revolving a fresh piece of office gossip . |
| 26 | A major effect of this show of restraint was swiftly to reverse the recent downward trend of US-Israeli relations . |
| 27 | ‘ I was merely calming a spoiled child . |
| 28 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 29 | It was not a ‘ true ’ style because it had not developed within an era to meet a genuine need ; it was merely copying the dead and it ‘ degrades architecture from its high position of a quasi-natural production to that of a mere imitative art ’ , a criticism often levied by professional architects against the wishes of the man in the street . |
| 30 | The cutting down of the scrub was merely to facilitate the minimal use by the goats — it was not for any wider purpose . |