Example sentences of "was [verb] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both times test work was stopped as soon as MoD chiefs realised what was happening . |
| 2 | Of course names were not broadcast and this was stopped as soon as the call was received . |
| 3 | ‘ When Kimberley divorced her husband and made off wi ’ t' other , Lorraine and she fell out and you could say I was fumin' as well . |
| 4 | This giant amongst licensed dealers was struggling as never before . |
| 5 | Coverage for each level was calculated as above . |
| 6 | The desaturation index was calculated as previously described according to the formula : UNID=S> ( fatty acid percentage×number of double bonds ) . |
| 7 | Radiotherapy was given as clinically indicated using either a 6 MV or 8 MV linear accelerator . |
| 8 | Then he was placed while still alive and bleeding somewhere else . |
| 9 | It was criticized as rhetorically poor , depressing in its tone , and not matching the occasion — especially in the absence of any special reference to the dead of Stalingrad . |
| 10 | This rule seemed to be modelled on the proportionality requirement in self-defence , and was criticized as quite unsuitable for cases of provocation , where loss of self-control intervenes between the provocation and the retaliation . |
| 11 | This shift in policy from universalism towards selectivism and area targeting was criticized as early is 1976 by Peter Townsend , who was quick to note its implications : |
| 12 | The falsification of cautious conjectures is informative because it establishes that what was regarded as unproblematically true is in fact false . |
| 13 | How , then , to explain defeat in a war which was regarded as just ? |
| 14 | Three years later I led a review of social security which was regarded as even more untouchable than the health service . |
| 15 | This was possible because human life was regarded as primarily the life of the community in which one generation quietly succeeded another , so that there was no pressing need for rapid construction . |
| 16 | Bottle feeding was regarded as both more ‘ Western ’ and ‘ modern ’ and had the advantage that other family members could deal with feeding the infant . |
| 17 | More was clearly needed , for slum clearance since 1930 was regarded as both too limited in scope and too slow in practice to deal with the scale of the housing problem in the big cities . |
| 18 | Some of them had taken drugs , but on the whole this was regarded as both old-fashioned and working-class , so swiftly do perceptions and attitudes change . |
| 19 | One of the first tourists to venture into the former realm of King Zog was John Biffen , who soon discovered his fairly orthodox demeanor was regarded as offensively trendy by Albania 's time-warped Bolshevists . |
| 20 | The Aug. 6 meeting , lasting 3@1/2 hours and involving Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's permanent representative at the UN , and Kenneth Quinn , a US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State , was regarded as relatively low-level , and the USA tried to minimise its significance . |
| 21 | But his sentence — 12 months in prison , suspended for a year — was regarded as much too light by those who believe that deliberately to take a human life is always wrong . |
| 22 | A p value of <0.05 was regarded as statistically significant . |
| 23 | In each case the probability of a p<0.05 was regarded as statistically significant . |
| 24 | However , ‘ eugenic considerations were by no means crucial to the passage of the Incest Act ’ in 1908 and the protection of children from sexual exploitation by parents was regarded as far more significant . |
| 25 | It was regarded as too narrowly based upon Mrs Thatcher 's wing of the party and insufficiently representative of , or capable of appealing to , the various other strands of opinion . |
| 26 | Until recently , it was regarded as vitally important that every worker should read the monthly updates and a spare copy was sent to each bureau . |
| 27 | In the middle ages the lord of the manor was regarded as legally responsible for the relief of the poor and one-quarter of the church tithes were also customarily set aside for this purpose . |
| 28 | A decade ago , a small car was regarded as highly economical if it was capable of averaging 30 mpg while a large family car was regarded as having acceptable fuel consumption at 20 mpg . |
| 29 | The number of sea birds killed , more than 1,500 , was regarded as low compared with similar disasters elsewhere . |
| 30 | In 1984 the Dancer was regarded as exotically short and low volume when first introduced . |