Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 3 | A lamb I had seen munching hay in the courtyard was duly killed for lunch . |
| 4 | Mr Edwards accepted and was duly elected as Treasurer until the election of Officers at the next Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Accordingly , at the adjourned hearing before Theobalds J. on 3 October a nolle prosequi was duly entered by direction of the D.P.P. |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Everett was duly interviewed for suitability in a hall in Shepherd 's Bush on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 10 | As Mademoiselle Lavaux had said , much of the furniture dated from a different era , and was ornately carved in dark , heavy wood . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The musical sensibility of Stravinsky , Milhaud , Kurt Weill , and Hindemith was overwhelmingly influenced by jazz . |
| 15 | With the aid of a cable slide , the patient was slowly lowered to safety . |
| 16 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 17 | The Saturday Benediction was slowly dying of indifference . |
| 18 | It was the most inspiring experience of my life and the visit provided food for my hungry spirit which by then was slowly dying from malnutrition . |
| 19 | His knee-length red woollen tunic was lavishly trimmed with fur , and the chain of solid metal links about his neck gleamed with the sheen of precious gold . |
| 20 | Mrs Ainsworth 's home was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly , rows of drinks stood on the sideboard and the rich aroma of turkey and sage and onion sag wafted from the kitchen . |
| 21 | This story was completely untrue and was successfully challenged in front of the Press Council . |
| 22 | The crisis , which mostly concerned urban strays , was successfully met with poison baiting , but this was not without environmental cost . |
| 23 | The regional unemployment gateway was successfully pleaded in Yarn Spinners ( 1959 ) , the impact on employment in Lancashire being the issue . |
| 24 | This name was unique within LIFESPAN and the package structure was successfully entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 25 | An attempt by black students to enter the all-white Central High School in Little Rock was forcibly prevented by state troopers under orders from Governor Orval Faubus . |
| 26 | Arrested and interned by the Germans , Adair was eventually moved from Bayonne to Fresne . |
| 27 | He was eventually rewarded with work on a prestigious construction project in New Guinea . |
| 28 | William , though himself without a helmet , fought like a lion to avenge his uncle 's death but was eventually overborne by weight of numbers as well as by another sword thrust from behind — and carried off into captivity . |
| 29 | Jacob was eventually born by emergency Caesarian section at 8.54pm after an unsuccessful attempt to deliver by forceps . |
| 30 | He gave shelter to Cenwealh when he was driven out of the territory of the upper Thames valley Saxons by Penda ( HE 111 , 7 ) and he was eventually slain in battle by Penda ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |