Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Renton , whose company has been suspended by the Financial Intermediaries and Managers Brokers Regulatory Association , was remanded to appear in the court on Monday |
| 2 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 3 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 4 | After working in private practice as an Assistant Solicitor in central London , Chris was attracted to work in the field of policing and criminal law , first as a Research Officer with the London Borough of Camden , then as a Legal Assistant with the Greater London Council . |
| 5 | For example , on one occasion a youth was caught urinating in the street late at might , and was very respectful and deferential when caught in the act , but , upon the policeman recalling that he had recently been one of a group which had shouted abuse at him , an act expected from gougers , he was arrested , and the incident was treated as a case of indecent exposure . |
| 6 | The one that was caught bonking in the very beginning sort of thing . |
| 7 | At a meeting on 25 February ( Stone , chairman , with Crawford , Vial , Huntingford ) , the following advertisement was reported published in the World : ‘ Veterinary College , London . |
| 8 | Five years later he was reported missing in the fighting around Leningrad and the family never saw him again . |
| 9 | Every word from his father , every lesson from his tutor , Pobedonostsev , every symbol he saw , every ceremony he performed was designed to inculcate in the young Tsar a sense of his God-given duty to uphold his supreme office . |
| 10 | For Mrs Bujok it was argued that the 1936 Act was designed to secure in the interests of the community at large that statutory nuisances did not exist . |
| 11 | This phrase was considered to mean in the identical provision of the 1959 Act ( s.8 ) a contesting and defeated candidate . |
| 12 | This level of support , in the face of a stipulation by Obuchi that no member of the faction was permitted to participate in the new group , fuelled rumours that Hata intended to form either a separate LDP faction or even , in conjunction with members of the opposition , a new centre-right political party . |
| 13 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 14 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 15 | Doubts about a rapid economic up-turn had been expressed by US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady , who at a parallel meeting of G-7 finance ministers indicated that economic growth in the US was expected to slow in the second quarter of 1992 although longer-term prospects were more hopeful . |
| 16 | Revised estimates drawn up by the government and central bank towards the end of 1989 showed the country 's economic situation to be worse than previously thought , with a current-account deficit of dollars 2,029 million for 1988 , although the situation was expected to improve in the early 1990s as a result of increased oil revenues . |
| 17 | The number of air passengers had risen to 1,100 million ( 49 per cent higher than in 1980 ) and was expected to double in the 1990s . |
| 18 | As The Bookseller went to press the shop was expected to reopen in the afternoon . |
| 19 | It is doubtful whether either of these distinctions would bear scrutiny on the broader canvas of moral and social philosophy : the moral thrust of Caldwell is that people are often just as much to blame for failing to think as they are for thinking about their actions and its consequences , and this very argument was applied to rape in the paragraphs above . |
| 20 | He was seen weeping in the waiting-room at Durham station , and the misery was the giving up of Durham with its epic history , its Bede and Cuthbert , its beauty and its strength , his new friends and his old , the university and the mining communities . |
| 21 | The unemployed 18 year-old had turned to prostitution and was seen soliciting in the Chapeltown area of Leeds on July 9 , 1991 . |
| 22 | In other words , electrical activity was seen to develop in the cerebellum in connection with eyeblink conditioning . |
| 23 | Although this active altruism was said to wane in the final year at school when each pupil had a wide range of other preoccupations , the strength , the compactness and the self-reliance of student groups only occasionally had to be challenged by teachers . |
| 24 | Her grandmother made the illegitimate girl into a Cinderella : ‘ I was made to work in the house … a house slave . ’ |
| 25 | But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time . |
| 26 | For the fifth time this year , he was made to struggle in the final round after being in a seemingly impregnable position . |
| 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 | All this was destined to change in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance period . |
| 29 | He was selected to run in the 100 and 200 metres in the 1924 Olympics in Paris , but declined to run in the 100 metres on religious grounds , because the heats were to be run on a Sunday . |
| 30 | Because of its aromatic properties it was preferred to spice in the making of aquavitae . |