Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was duly dispatched the following morning with Aurangzeb 's chief eunuch , I'tibar Khan . |
| 2 | Maggie was thankfully drinking the tea , the pain-killer still on the tray , when Felipe arrived , knocking on the door and striding in when she opened it . |
| 3 | By 1982 , the Minority Rights Group in London was unofficially estimating the Muslim population was more than two million while the Christians numbered barely 1.5 million . |
| 4 | However , specialists told him glaucoma was slowly attacking the sight in his good eye . |
| 5 | This first wave of West Walians to the new industrial areas of north-eastern South Wales brought a distinctive radical , nonconformist , and Welsh-speaking element to a pastoral community that had remained largely conservative and unchanged from the late seventeenth century and was slowly losing the old Welsh language — rapidly so in Monmouthshire — and along with it any acute sense of separate national identity . |
| 6 | Walking along the path it was fascinating to see how the sea and wind was slowly eroding the coastline , shaping it into intriguing nooks and crannies . |
| 7 | Charles 's low plea was interrupted by Guy , who was slowly turning the stem of the cut-glass wine goblet in front of him , watching the reflection of candlelight in the dark burgundy . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , an Indian Defence Ministry report released on Aug. 1 claimed that Pakistan was secretly continuing the development of a weapons-oriented nuclear programme with Chinese assistance . |
| 9 | His strategy was rather to canalize the enthusiasm of the diehards into party channels , to articulate their views , and to create unity from the sense of movement . |
| 10 | In practice the express remedies were actually in many cases fairly limited , so that the effect of such guarantees was rather to avoid the manufacturer 's liability than to provide an additional remedy . |
| 11 | In the nine patients in whom H pylori was successfully eradicated the median basal-subtracted EC 5 fell significantly , from 104 ( 18–171 , 95% CI 53–150 ) to 48 ( 26–136 , 95% CI 34–103 ) pmol/l ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there was some evidence that the NPA was successfully shifting the central focus of its campaign from its traditional rural areas of operation to urban centres , particularly Manila . |
| 13 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |
| 14 | One day Mr Hurd woke up to find that he was the Foreign Secretary , pinched himself , and found that his first big job was forcibly deporting the boat people in Hong Kong back to Vietnam . |
| 15 | Mr Johnston said it would be foolish to anticipate better advertising volumes for the provincial press in general , at least until the latter part of 1993 , but the group 's present lower cost base should certainly benefit profits if Britain was eventually to see the type of modest recovery which was beginning to boost the US newspaper industry . |
| 16 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 17 | Clark owned an estate in Tetbury which was eventually given the name Highgrove by his grandson John Paul Paul . |
| 18 | The submarine , which was eventually to provide the best means of delivering the torpedo , was still an infant ; only one or two curious submersible craft had been built and they had not yet affected naval thinking . |
| 19 | It must be conceded that the process had for its ‘ desired end ’ , the production of a being capable of experiencing what was eventually to become the enjoyment of life . |
| 20 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 21 | This was eventually to become the Victoria Dock . |
| 22 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 23 | Into that stream of pure gothic fiction there was eventually added the element of crime or suspected crime , thus bringing into existence the romantic suspense novel . |
| 24 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 25 | By renouncing the CGDK label , Sihanouk was effectively distancing the tripartite resistance from the Khmer Rouge " Democratic Kampuchea " regime of the mid- to late 1970s . |
| 26 | ‘ I was effectively providing the growth , ’ Ms Harris says . |
| 27 | In his study of abolition , Williams was effectively challenging the views perpetrated by an august body of imperial historians and in so doing was bringing into question the ‘ moral legitimacy ’ of the British anti-slavery movement . |
| 28 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 29 | In this case the coin artist was presumably commemorating the decision to build the temple . |
| 30 | Thus the civil war was powerfully to reinforce the centrifugal tendencies at work within the economy , and as Carr noted : |