Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] in [art] " 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 | Ramsay signed up over 300 persons , whose membership was duly noted in the so-called ‘ red book ’ . |
| 3 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The poll tax was duly included in the 1987 Conservative election manifesto and after their election victory it became the dominant political issue . |
| 9 | This was duly reflected in the jade inventory . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | Ministers agreed , and a Bill was duly introduced in the House of Lords . |
| 14 | A new Constitution was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum on Dec. 23 , 1990 . |
| 15 | After the decline of Kiev , a new centre of power and influence was slowly established in the region of Moscow . |
| 16 | AFRENCH magazine has promised to publish more proof of an allegation that dioxin from the 1976 Seveso disaster in northern Italy was secretly buried in a central French town where the inhabitants have been suffering from fumes from a toxic waste dump . |
| 17 | Racial prejudice was avidly preached in the past in order to justify the extermination of the indigenous peoples of the Americas . |
| 18 | The European Commission 's protest that they were distorting competition by acting unilaterally was successfully beaten in the European Court . |
| 19 | The US Magellan spacecraft launched in May 1989 [ see p. 36674 ] was successfully placed in an elliptical orbit around the planet Venus on Aug. 10 . |
| 20 | The technique was successfully demonstrated in the Carnmenellis granite in the course of a project undertaken in collaboration with the Camborne School of Mines and others to study hot dry rocks . |
| 21 | It is curious , or perhaps not so curious , that a number of fundamental common law concepts in everyday use are still statutorily undefined , for example , murder , manslaughter , contract , defamation , negligence ( though the concept of duty of care was successfully defined in the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 ) . |
| 22 | The special circumstances doctrine was successfully upheld in the 1909 US Supreme Court decision in Strong v. |
| 23 | In 1985 Belau had defaulted on the loans from foreign banks financing the project and was successfully sued in the US courts [ see p. 36701 ] . |
| 24 | In January it was successfully used in an attack on Clogher RUC station , which caused extensive damage . |
| 25 | By means of an appeal to Lenin , Bashkirs were able to secure some positions in the government , only to have their agreement with Moscow cancelled a year later when Bashkiria was forcibly incorporated in the RSFSR . |
| 26 | That order was eventually discovered in the teachings of Christianity . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 28 | The thrust of German research was eventually to culminate in a position summarised by Rudolf Bultmann of the University of Marburg , one of the most important , most famous and most esteemed of twentieth-century biblical commentators : |
| 29 | Randall Yarwood was eventually confirmed in the office by the Company on probation on 8th August 1645 , but lasted only until Good Friday of the following year . |
| 30 | He was eventually placed in the custody of the Earl Marshal , the Earl of March , while Lyons was sentenced to imprisonment and all his goods were forfeited . |