Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology . |
| 3 | In east Africa wage-paid labour was confined almost entirely to entrepôt ports such as Mombasa and Zanzibar . |
| 4 | With regard to Bancroft 's second point , our research was designed not only to quantify sexual practices but also to understand why people put themselves at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases , especially AIDS . |
| 5 | This dual safeguard , which was designed not merely to maintain the real value of benefits , but also to guarantee that they paralleled any increase in the real incomes of the working population , was removed in 1980 . |
| 6 | Everything was frozen yet strangely unstill . |
| 7 | So that the forest could retain its wildness — its original denseness — it was forbidden back then to cut trees or hunt animals , though people were permitted to collect berries , nuts , fruits and medicinal plants . |
| 8 | Pears was whisked off still wearing his goalkeeper 's jersey and limping heavily after being hurt in the final minutes . |
| 9 | Either the Director was empowered not only to pose questions but to compel an answer , or she was not . |
| 10 | The problem of demand overload was seen as further compounded by two related factors . |
| 11 | As this work was done under carefully controlled conditions it must be concluded that the missing 40–50 per cent of bones were totally destroyed by the owls . |
| 12 | In later records , notably the census returns of 1841 and 1851 , he was said more specifically to follow the trade of fancy weaver , that is the manufacture of waistcoats and other garments with decorative patterns . |
| 13 | And here she stayed on public display until 1868 when it was decided not only to close the museum but also to lay Hannah Beswick to rest . |
| 14 | The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket . |
| 15 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 16 | He was instructed not actually to conclude a sale without first referring back to his principal ; he was to receive commission if a sale was concluded . |
| 17 | I was persuaded long ago to use Flora instead of butter . |
| 18 | Normal or near normal renal function was classified as previously described as a plasma urea concentration of <14 mmol/l and plasma creatinine concentration of <160 µmol/l ; moderate renal dysfunction as that when concentrations were higher than those quoted above ; and severe renal dysfunction as that when renal dialysis was instituted . |
| 19 | Today in Johannesburg news of the Nobel Prize was celebrated both outside add inside the African National Congress Headquarters . |
| 20 | The doctrine of ultra vires was used not simply to control the scope of the power being exercised but also to control the way the power was used . |
| 21 | Sadly , the Board was virtually alone in this support , and to understand why , we must return for a moment to the sixties , when the test was used almost exclusively to curb the spread of erotica . |
| 22 | We saw that this term was used very generally to describe various sorts of tension which arise in social practices , or between them , and which may provoke changes in the structure of society . |
| 23 | The man was woven into her dream and even seeing him as he was had not exactly wiped the romantic image from her mind . |
| 24 | He had tried experimentally and not without success in the past , but was needed more often to revert to orthodox seam . |
| 25 | Charles acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and became a patron of Rubens and van Dyck as well as of Inigo Jones , who was commissioned not only to build palaces but to write and produce masques at Court . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I was called over so Zoff could put some questions to Paul , they were about training and that 's all I can say about it . ’ |
| 27 | PEST exterminator Frank Murray was called on yesterday to SAVE a swarm of wasps . |
| 28 | The Amble lifeboat was called out yesterday to take a crewman with a gashed hand off an oil rig support ship in the North Sea . |
| 29 | Although the technology is available now , it will not be launched commercially until the first quarter of 1994 , because Ms Burke said , she wanted to be sure the company was geared up sufficiently to cope with any demands made on it . |
| 30 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |