Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 2 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |
| 3 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 4 | The surveyor was duly appointed by the parties under the lease . |
| 5 | Whilst their more extreme suggestions were disregarded , the degree of concern was duly communicated to the government . |
| 6 | The arrangements concerning the loan were , according to Feigen , confirmed in a letter from the museum director and the painting was duly sent to the museum as a loan pending sale in mid August 1991 . |
| 7 | The first study was duly undertaken with the co-operation of orthodox medical practitioners and researchers . |
| 8 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |
| 9 | Ramsay signed up over 300 persons , whose membership was duly noted in the so-called ‘ red book ’ . |
| 10 | The lapse was duly noted by the Stage Manager and no one was surprised to be summoned on stage at the ‘ half ’ for the evening show , and receive a dressing down from the Company Manager . |
| 11 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
| 12 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 was duly repealed by the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 13 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 14 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 15 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 16 | The novelty of girls on the premises was duly reported in the local press when term started , and quite quickly forgotten , too , as they settled in with very little fuss . |
| 17 | La finta semplice ( The Pretended Simpleton ) , an opera buffa based on a play by Goldoni , was duly performed in the Archbishop of Salzburg 's palace theatre on 1 May 1769 , to the satisfaction of its 13-year-old composer . |
| 18 | This was duly installed in the turbine house with an air line running up the hill and was programmed to blow air under the leaves every so often . |
| 19 | The scrambler device was duly attached to the standard telephone and the first details emerged of Prince Charles 's dismissal of his private secretary , Major-General Sir Christopher Airey . |
| 20 | A joint congressional committee drew up a common version of the two bills which was duly approved by the two chambers , and was signed into law on Sept. 22 by President Fidel Ramos . |
| 21 | An official from the Region had a post with a Cycleway sign attached ; this was duly knocked into the ground beside the river for the ‘ photo opportunity ’ and then removed , as we were nowhere near the actual Cycleway route . |
| 22 | And she was duly guided round the shops and revamped . |
| 23 | The poll tax was duly included in the 1987 Conservative election manifesto and after their election victory it became the dominant political issue . |
| 24 | This was duly reflected in the jade inventory . |
| 25 | Tom Jones and Duff argued for resignation , and Lady Astor helped to sway Dawson to the same line , which was duly reflected in The Times leader of Monday morning . |
| 26 | The interview was duly shown at the end of the third broadcast of the obituary programme and was very well received . |
| 27 | It transferred its cargo to an Irish tug , the Marita Ann , which was duly seized by the Irish Navy . |
| 28 | So for the potential crime of the bad men , all of whom seemed perfectly pleasant , sentence was passed on Melinda , who was duly imprisoned in the hold . |
| 29 | This recommendation was duly embodied in the 1959 statute , which provided that " an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 30 | I was duly bandaged by the first aid folk , and then placed in position . |