Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 2 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 3 | One way to discourage such demands was secretly to salt a shallow anchorage with a bag of rotted chicken heads which would quickly draw a sinuous and evil-looking pack of otherwise harmless sand sharks that would twist menacingly under our keel and persuade the paying customers to seek the deeper darker waters offshore . |
| 4 | He believes that one of his workers told Abba 's record company that he was secretly recording an Abba song with a group of soundalikes . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the 1980s , Mozambique had a National Health Service ( NHS ) that was successfully implementing a primary health care ( PHC ) philosophy . |
| 6 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 7 | But within the NPKTF , it was successfully recruiting a number of the unskilled or " auxiliary " women workers in the printing trade . |
| 8 | Great Yarmouth was successfully awarded a long term contract with Shell Expro , while Falkirk and Milford Haven increased their market share in support of the onshore petro-chemical industry . |
| 9 | With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s . |
| 10 | Aston was eventually offered a temporary place in a hostel occupied exclusively by men , many of whom have been recently released from prison or who have drug problems . |
| 11 | When he was eventually offered a chair , at the age of sixty-eight , it was not in Britain but at Harvard . |
| 12 | The presence of these large populations of insects , whirring and buzzing through the air of the ancient forests , was eventually to play an extremely important part in a revolution that was taking place among the plants . |
| 13 | Loughborough University of Technology Library was eventually awarded a grant of £23,600 for three years to provide facilities for the British Library Information Officer for User Education to operate a clearinghouse for user education in the UK . |
| 14 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 15 | He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days . |
| 16 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 17 | By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order . |
| 18 | Time was imperative as the pressure was on to produce a result that would enable Stoddard Templeton to achieve a Spring Launch for the new product . |
| 19 | The learned Chief Justice had already dealt with inevitable accident , so that he was presumably contemplating a case in which the presence of A's goods on C's land was due , not to that , but to the tort of A or of someone else for whose act A was in some way or other responsible . |
| 20 | The attempt in the 1890s to turn headmen into policemen in Kurunagala was widely considered a failure , and even officials responsible for the province at the time emphasized the importance of coconut plantations in the decline of cattle theft . |
| 21 | He was widely considered a strong supporter of further European integration . |
| 22 | The Chester case was widely considered a test the government 's response to development pressures on open land surrounding other historic cities in Britain . |
| 23 | So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play . |
| 24 | A smart cock chaff inch was fiercely chasing a rival out of his patch . |
| 25 | His mind was gleefully revolving a fresh piece of office gossip . |
| 26 | ‘ I was merely calming a spoiled child . |
| 27 | ‘ I was merely passing a comment , that 's all . ’ |
| 28 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 29 | I was merely asking a question . |
| 30 | I was merely posing a hypothesis . ’ |