Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . |
| 2 | This kind of development characterized the transition from absolution to liberalism , just as the re-emergence of bureaucratic power has marked the transition from the liberal to the interventionist state of monopoly capitalism : ‘ in the last analysis this democracy was erected precisely in order to place institutional limits upon the privileges bequeathed to the administration by the Absolutist State ’ ( Poulantzas 1978 , p. 226 ) . |
| 3 | A tent of dyed homespun was erected out in front , while some caterers got busy preparing Punjabi specialities over a clay oven at the back of the house . |
| 4 | He remembered the heat of the sun on his back , and the way the cold water cleaved at the touch of the canoe , as it was propelled forward in search of prey by the hunters . |
| 5 | ‘ But I was tucked up in bed early — not difficult in Dresden you know , they do n't have West German television down there — oh ! |
| 6 | That evening , when Rachel was tucked up in bed sleeping , the moment came when Fred could contain his suspicions no longer , as Carrie had expected . |
| 7 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |
| 8 | In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level . |
| 9 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 10 | The danger of an upturn in inflation was highlighted today in figures showing the price of goods leaving the factory gate . |
| 11 | When Bodie arrived at the hospital , first thing next morning , Ray Doyle was propped up in bed , looking as chirpy and as mischievous as ever . |
| 12 | An example of the use of a high-pass filter was given above in respect of Figure 5.14 . |
| 13 | One microcurie ( 37 kBq ) of SeHCAT was given orally in capsule form to each subject . |
| 14 | The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] . |
| 15 | Much of the past , indeed , survived in the special traditions and interests of soldiers and although the outstanding example was Germany , as the Zabern incident was to show ( below , p. 212 ) , it was recognized even in Great Britain that the Guards had the privilege of avoiding the duller overseas stations . |
| 16 | It was , in fact , a different salt of the same base as the original Bayer Resochin , and after much comparison with other related compounds it became established and was recognized formally in February 1946 under the name chloroquine . |
| 17 | Habash was placed briefly in custody while in a Paris hospital to be questioned by an investigating magistrate about an arms and explosive cache found near Paris in 1986 and about several bombings and hijackings . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 19 | At one time childhood reading was justified mainly in terms of vocabulary growth : reading increased vocabulary . |
| 20 | In some societies coinage was minted solely in accordance with the government 's instructions , in order to meet the state 's requirements for public expenditure on war , army and civil service pay , food , or public buildings . |
| 21 | The Buckau 's first series of trials at sea as a rotor ship was completed successfully in January 1925 . |
| 22 | The transfer of our central distribution operation to Brackmills , Northampton was completed successfully in October 1992 and it now handles almost 11,000 commodities . |
| 23 | Production began soon after the election result was known , but the design work was completed well in advance . |
| 24 | The book was completed just in time for him to dedicate it to King Charles II at the Restoration . |
| 25 | A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing . |
| 26 | Usually , a rigid time schedule for these symposia was arranged well in advance , and a programme sent to the members who had booked . |
| 27 | General Monk , in the spring of 1660 , led a bloodless coup and declared that Charles II should become King , so a warship was sent to Holland to fetch him back to England , where he arrived before the end of May , aged 30 years , and was received rapturously in London . |
| 28 | The industry principle was realised best in countries where there was a close co-operation between a big Social Democrat Party and a relatively centralised union movement . |
| 29 | Even the feeblest message of support from the British Young Socialists ( not of course from the Labour Party executive ) was cheered widely in Tiananmen Square . |
| 30 | The outline of what was to become the Special Air Service was roughed out in pencil on sheets of paper in hospital during June and July 1941 . |