Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have been enough to allow the guardians to purchase 300 hot cross buns for the inmates at current prices ; that , too , was duly authorised for Easter 1930 . |
| 2 | The prior of the cathedral produced his accounts and was duly assessed at £483. 7s. 6d. in ‘ clere yerlie Revenues and Possessions ’ after sundry deductions from a gross £1,004. 4s. 8d. ‘ as appereth by Rentalles and Bookes of Accompte ’ . |
| 3 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 4 | Griess was duly invited to London ( 1858 ) and Hofmann commissioned him to explore the possibilities of his new diazo compounds . |
| 5 | This was duly noted by Mary Sherwood ( 1775–1851 ) , author of the often lachrymose children 's classic , The Fairchild Family . |
| 6 | The status of reviseur d'entreprises was duly granted to Mr Ramrath . |
| 7 | A lamb I had seen munching hay in the courtyard was duly killed for lunch . |
| 8 | Following the death , on 29 June 1523 , of Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ‘ the rich clothier ’ , his commercial empire had been dismantled , and his immense fortune , £3,200 net , dispersed among his heirs , most of it to his widow and daughter ; his son had already chosen to live as a gentleman and was duly taxed on £20 from lands in 1524 , and the firm ceased trading . |
| 9 | Mr Edwards accepted and was duly elected as Treasurer until the election of Officers at the next Annual General Meeting . |
| 10 | The support manoeuvre had been undertaken in order to outbid an existing takeover offer for Distillers from the Argyll supermarket group ; in April 1986 a majority of Distillers ' shareholders voted to accept the Guinness bid , then valued at £2,700 million ( US$5,180 million ) , and the merger of Guinness and Distillers was duly completed after clearance from the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 11 | Mr. Steed was duly registered at H.M. |
| 12 | A brass plaque was duly struck in Benjamin 's memory and mounted in the church near the organ , where it may still be seen : |
| 13 | All went well , and he was duly admitted to St Paul 's College in Cheltenham from the Islington Trinity National School , having been awarded a Queen 's Scholarship , second class . |
| 14 | This was duly reported to General Joseph Galliéni , now Minister of War , who had heard similar disquieting news from other sources . |
| 15 | The Block , built by J.J. Oakes & Son , was duly opened on Speech Day , 17th July 1957 , appropriately by Professor Williams , who had recently become the first recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts , " to individuals who have attained early distinction , with promise of future achievements , in the promotion of arts , manufacture , and commerce " . |
| 16 | The Baker-Aziz meeting was duly held in Geneva on Jan. 9 ; although it lasted six hours , no progress was made . |
| 17 | Accordingly , at the adjourned hearing before Theobalds J. on 3 October a nolle prosequi was duly entered by direction of the D.P.P. |
| 18 | The Foundation Stone was duly laid by Alderman W.C. Knight , Mayor of Stockport and Old Stopfordian , after the Founder 's Day service on 20th March 1969 . |
| 19 | Although Soul presents the anthropists as shiny new iconoclasts , the same line was being peddled at the turn of the century by Alfred Russel Wallace , Darwin 's collaborator , and was duly satirised by Mark Twain . |
| 20 | As predicted , the Republican contest was duly won by Bush , whilst Harkin massively outscored his Democratic rivals . |
| 21 | These misgivings in the face of the anaesthetist were weakened when in 1853 , Queen Victoria 's physician asked Dr John Snow of Edinburgh to administer chloroform to the Queen , who welcomed his help and was duly delivered of Prince Leopold . |
| 22 | Everett was duly interviewed for suitability in a hall in Shepherd 's Bush on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 23 | The Worcestershire bowlers and fielders began to find their form when Notts skipper , Tim Robinson was acrobatically caught by Neale off Illingworth for 5 . |
| 24 | He also faced the increasingly urgent problem posed by the slow progress of the scholarly revision of the general catalogue of printed books , which , seriously disrupted by the war , had only reached a point early in the letter D. When reporting the matter to the trustees in 1953 , Oldman had to recommend one of two courses : either , having attempted to secure more staff , to press on with revision , or ( as was vigorously advocated by F. C. Francis , the senior of the two keepers serving under Oldman ) , to terminate the work and then reprint volumes photolithographically together with the unrevised remainder , but with accessions from 1905 to 1955 intercalated . |
| 25 | Each of these points was vigorously argued by Dr. Madeleine Atkins who spoke principally about the findings of her six-month study on Training Teachers of Ethnic Minority Community Languages , undertaken with Professor Maurice Draft of the University of Nottingham for the DES Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Ethnic Minority Children ( the Swann Committee ) . |
| 26 | As Mademoiselle Lavaux had said , much of the furniture dated from a different era , and was ornately carved in dark , heavy wood . |
| 27 | Preliminary analysis of these questions suggested that dissatisfaction with six of the organizations was importantly related to preparedness to break the law : the press , local government , the civil service , banks , the police and the local doctor . |
| 28 | There was an outbreak of infection with this organism in Liverpool in 1976 , which was thankfully controlled by dint of exhaustive contact-tracing , and there have only been sporadic single cases since then , mostly imported from abroad . |
| 29 | Yeltsin was rapturously accepted in Russia specifically as the ‘ Russian ’ leader who had liberated Russia from the communism foreign to it . |
| 30 | PAUL GASCOIGNE took over the crown was unofficially crowned of king of world football here last night as he gloriously won his personal duel with Maradona with a wonder goal that had ‘ made in heaven ’ stamped all over it . |