Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent . |
| 2 | The judicial commission of inquiry , announced by the Prime Minister , Vere Bird Sr , on April 25 , was duly set up under the chairmanship of a British QC , Louis Blom-Cooper . |
| 3 | Above our heads a huge drum of paper , some twenty feet wide , was slowly tracking along on a conveyor . |
| 4 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 5 | Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck . |
| 6 | The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance . |
| 7 | Its blood , streaming upon the glass , was slowly set aside by the windscreen wipers . |
| 8 | The child 's face remained frozen at the window and was slowly carried sideways down the wooden platform . |
| 9 | The product was discreetly set out towards the back with the label half turned away . |
| 10 | It was mostly built early in the nineteenth century with a tall fair spire topped by a ship . |
| 11 | My subject of frost covered trees and hedgerows involved little colour and was mostly worked up in a sequence of colour tinted greys bearing reference numbers in the 800s . |
| 12 | Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose . |
| 13 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 14 | I said I was rather tied up at the school over most week-ends ; though the half-term holiday was the week-end after next and I might just be in Athens then — but I could n't be sure . |
| 15 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 16 | It was eventually swallowed up by the expanding city . |
| 17 | Although it was eventually pushed out of the company 's programmes by the success of Pineapple Poll , another comedy in which John developed further the idea of sailors getting their come-uppance , Tritsch Tratsch has never lost its popularity as a number suitable for galas and concert programmes . |
| 18 | It was offered for sale at £13,500 , but was eventually leased away as a small factory , which it remains . |
| 19 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 20 | The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium , given the name Legionella pneumophila . |
| 21 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |
| 22 | Christopher Addison was unpopular because of his advanced social policy and he was eventually driven out by the Unionists . |
| 23 | He was eventually put ashore on the island of Emira where he had to live for six days on coconuts before being rescued and brought to Sydney , Australia . |
| 24 | Numerous operations were performed , until , as Charlie says , ‘ I was eventually shipped back to the States on the Queen Mary and was so happy to see the Statue of Liberty again . |
| 25 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 26 | After intense lobbying , the pressure of opposition was eventually brought home to the London Dumping Convention . |
| 27 | Three particular ‘ Snoddyisms ’ stand out : ( 1 ) Roy Allen was blatantly pulled back by the arm inside the penalty area as he ran to meet a corner — ‘ play on ’ was the decision . |
| 28 | More bad luck was to follow a minute later ; Steve Jenkins hit a cross shot which Spencer Creedon parried across the six yard box , Kenny Clark followed up and desperately slid in but was denied by the post , and in doing so , dislocated his finger , but was luckily allowed back into the action within minutes following treatment . |
| 29 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 30 | The ( nominally left-wing ) Sinhala guerrilla Janatha Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP — People 's Liberation Front ) was effectively wiped out as a serious threat by ruthless army action in southern areas in late 1989 and early 1990 [ see pp. 37042 ; 37353 ] . |