Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focus of change was organisational arrangements , in the sanguine belief that if the framework of the school was altered then the processes of education which it enshrined would also alter to support a strong definition of equality of opportunity . |
| 2 | Information Consulting , while independent , was formed about a year ago by five former Arthur Andersen partners with financial backing from Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising and consultancy group . |
| 3 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 4 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |
| 5 | The sporting world is full of fairy tales … but if the name of Samantha Raeisi ever reaches the headlines its going to be quite a story … she 's from Swindon … she 's a mum … she 's a model … and a few years ago she was given just a few weeks to live … |
| 6 | Earlier this month Mr Harris was given just a few days to live but for now his illness seems to have regressed . |
| 7 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 8 | This rating was given immediately the subject heard the bleep in the centre of the junction . |
| 9 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 10 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 11 | Each machinist was given virtually an entire garment to produce as a more satisfying method of working than ‘ production line ’ techniques . |
| 12 | If the presidency was given only a nominal role , for example , the Maronites would still hold the most honoured post in the country while more executive power could be given to the Sunni Muslim premier . |
| 13 | The listener was given only a limited picture of life outside the capital and one which was seen through urban eyes . |
| 14 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 15 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 16 | ‘ But we are lucky to have her — she was given only a 50:50 chance of survival when she was born . ’ |
| 17 | Had he agreed to resign , he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years ' service in Poor Law Institutions ; as it was , he was given only the nine years entitlement from his time at Bedford . |
| 18 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 19 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 20 | Church-state law experts said a role for the Pope in the Anglican church was unlikely to provoke a constitutional crisis , if he was given only an honorary position . |
| 21 | The dividing wall was placed so a well established laburnum remained in one corner of their garden . |
| 22 | She was referred again a year later with similar problems . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 24 | This idea was developed further a few months later in the ‘ Marshall Plan ’ , a highly significant US commitment to European affairs . |
| 25 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 26 | Or if she was torn then the doctor would come er and stitch her up . |
| 27 | The group-theoretic result of Golod ( 1964 ) is a consequence of joint work with Shafarevich ( also 1964 ) in which was solved affirmatively an old problem of field theory closely related to the work described here in Sections 3.6 , 3.7 and 3.9 ( see [ 43 , p. 125 ] for brief details ) . |
| 28 | Farafra still enjoyed the strict rites of Arab desert etiquette in which hospitality was considered both a duty and an honour . |
| 29 | The outlook was considered all the more rosy from their point of view , since Denwood would have to be made what is known as a divisional point , that is to say , a station of more than ordinary importance , inasmuch as it would indicate the end of a running section — the point where the train would have to change engines . |
| 30 | I said nothing to her , of course ; she was considered almost a goddess in Berlin , had a huge following . |