Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebleeding was successfully controlled in some patients with treatment by a second injection . |
| 2 | And then , when he was doing so well , he was badly hurt in that nasty Africa . ’ |
| 3 | He was presumably influenced in this direction by the churchmen around him , among whom Wilfrid is conspicuous for his known familiarity with the see of St Peter . |
| 4 | An attempt by the Hungarian emigré organization , Transylvanian Magyar World Federation , to organize a cross-border demonstration was widely condemned in both countries and did not materialize . |
| 5 | The very term ‘ lunatic ’ , which was widely used in this discourse , implies a lay psychological theory : the term denotes people whose thinking is disrupted from logicality by personality or stupidity . |
| 6 | Although National Party parliamentary leader Jim Bolger denounced the agreement as " a panic move " , it was widely welcomed in many quarters . |
| 7 | This is not highly encouraging , and perhaps it is not surprising that although the need for formal systematic planning was noted in our sample , and the concept of appraisal was mentioned by a small number of respondents , evaluation was rarely described in any depth , although 62% of the programmes described by the data sheets indicated that an assessment procedure was employed . |
| 8 | The density of lamina propria lymphocytes was somewhat increased in most groups of coeliac patients , but this showed considerable variability and did not exhibit the same relationship to dietary status ( Table ) . |
| 9 | The 1970 show at the Tate was somewhat restricted in that , although I showed some ‘ Ulysses ’ drawings as an introduction and some early Fifties paintings , it really began with 1956 . |
| 10 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 11 | The right hon. Gentleman gave his usual vintage performance , with many justified facts and views , and it was warmly received in all parts of the House , not only for its humour but for some of his more sombre comments about the present ominous geophysical appearance of Europe . |
| 12 | I was warmly welcomed in all cases and an enthusiastic and positive attitude prevailed although mixed with understandable anxiety concerning the radical changes proposed . |
| 13 | In fact he was only beaten in this twice on Ulster roads . |
| 14 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 15 | Unless she was much mistaken in that young man , pure chance played very little part in his proceedings . |
| 16 | Being consecrated Bishop in March , 1077 , he was soon engaged in many building projects . |
| 17 | I was soon turning in more stories of my own choice and selection than those by regular assignment . |
| 18 | It was finally sinking in that if a year could go by , then so could two , or even three . |
| 19 | It was half-heartedly applied in many districts and this was effectively sanctioned by the obvious lack of government enthusiasm ; it suffered from cumbersome and inexpert administration worsened by a shortage of full-time paid officials ; from reliance on uncertain voluntary funding and , above all , from its central assumption that work could by these means be provided for those in need . |
| 20 | Although Buchanan 's share was reduced to 26 per cent , the result was nevertheless interpreted in most quarters as a less than full endorsement of the President . |
| 21 | Perhaps the memory was already buried in some corner of his mind . |
| 22 | The windowpanes rattled furiously , and spidery fingers of crepitating electricity twitched and danced over the glass once more ; again creating the illusion that the entire office block was somehow enmeshed in some monstrous spider 's web . |
| 23 | t to disobey what John was just saying in those previous few verses . |
| 24 | The text reported by La Stampa , however , was not couched in such inhumane terms . |
| 25 | It was not the written disclaimer but the understanding between the buyer and seller which meant that the false trade description was not applied in this case . |
| 26 | In discussing the single-product case , we found that subadditivity at the relevant output , the necessary and sufficient condition for natural monopoly , was not related in any close way to features of the cost function . |
| 27 | The formation of m 2 G6 in the aminoacyl-stem was not affected in any of the tRNA-variants . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom introduced legislation requiring the fitting of a ‘ dim-dip ’ device , invoking safety grounds , but it was held that the EEC directives on motor vehicle headlights regulated the matter in an exhaustive manner , so that a Member State could not require a form of lighting which was not listed in those directives . |
| 29 | This procedure obviously was not followed in this case and Turning Point is looking into what happened . ’ |
| 30 | Ed 's Note : the headline ‘ Selective Conscience ’ in the April/May issue was not intended in any way to call Vic Williams ' position into question . |