Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Renton , whose company has been suspended by the Financial Intermediaries and Managers Brokers Regulatory Association , was remanded to appear in the court on Monday |
| 2 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 3 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 4 | In Gever 's Application [ 1970 ] , data processing apparatus was arranged to work in a certain way associated with punched cards inserted into it . |
| 5 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 6 | After working in private practice as an Assistant Solicitor in central London , Chris was attracted to work in the field of policing and criminal law , first as a Research Officer with the London Borough of Camden , then as a Legal Assistant with the Greater London Council . |
| 7 | For example , on one occasion a youth was caught urinating in the street late at might , and was very respectful and deferential when caught in the act , but , upon the policeman recalling that he had recently been one of a group which had shouted abuse at him , an act expected from gougers , he was arrested , and the incident was treated as a case of indecent exposure . |
| 8 | The one that was caught bonking in the very beginning sort of thing . |
| 9 | In 1934 the son of Britain 's most controversial psychoanalyst was reported killed in a climbing accident . |
| 10 | At a meeting on 25 February ( Stone , chairman , with Crawford , Vial , Huntingford ) , the following advertisement was reported published in the World : ‘ Veterinary College , London . |
| 11 | Five years later he was reported missing in the fighting around Leningrad and the family never saw him again . |
| 12 | Every word from his father , every lesson from his tutor , Pobedonostsev , every symbol he saw , every ceremony he performed was designed to inculcate in the young Tsar a sense of his God-given duty to uphold his supreme office . |
| 13 | For Mrs Bujok it was argued that the 1936 Act was designed to secure in the interests of the community at large that statutory nuisances did not exist . |
| 14 | This phrase was considered to mean in the identical provision of the 1959 Act ( s.8 ) a contesting and defeated candidate . |
| 15 | This level of support , in the face of a stipulation by Obuchi that no member of the faction was permitted to participate in the new group , fuelled rumours that Hata intended to form either a separate LDP faction or even , in conjunction with members of the opposition , a new centre-right political party . |
| 16 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 17 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 18 | Doubts about a rapid economic up-turn had been expressed by US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady , who at a parallel meeting of G-7 finance ministers indicated that economic growth in the US was expected to slow in the second quarter of 1992 although longer-term prospects were more hopeful . |
| 19 | Revised estimates drawn up by the government and central bank towards the end of 1989 showed the country 's economic situation to be worse than previously thought , with a current-account deficit of dollars 2,029 million for 1988 , although the situation was expected to improve in the early 1990s as a result of increased oil revenues . |
| 20 | The number of air passengers had risen to 1,100 million ( 49 per cent higher than in 1980 ) and was expected to double in the 1990s . |
| 21 | As The Bookseller went to press the shop was expected to reopen in the afternoon . |
| 22 | Christie was refusing to bask in the glory of his sensational Olympic 100 metres victory . |
| 23 | It is doubtful whether either of these distinctions would bear scrutiny on the broader canvas of moral and social philosophy : the moral thrust of Caldwell is that people are often just as much to blame for failing to think as they are for thinking about their actions and its consequences , and this very argument was applied to rape in the paragraphs above . |
| 24 | The little deer was seen staggering in a distressed and bloated condition , captured with difficulty and taken to a vet who pumped fermented corn from the stomach — presumably the fawn had gorged herself on pheasant feed . |
| 25 | He was seen weeping in the waiting-room at Durham station , and the misery was the giving up of Durham with its epic history , its Bede and Cuthbert , its beauty and its strength , his new friends and his old , the university and the mining communities . |
| 26 | The unemployed 18 year-old had turned to prostitution and was seen soliciting in the Chapeltown area of Leeds on July 9 , 1991 . |
| 27 | In other words , electrical activity was seen to develop in the cerebellum in connection with eyeblink conditioning . |
| 28 | Although this active altruism was said to wane in the final year at school when each pupil had a wide range of other preoccupations , the strength , the compactness and the self-reliance of student groups only occasionally had to be challenged by teachers . |
| 29 | Her grandmother made the illegitimate girl into a Cinderella : ‘ I was made to work in the house … a house slave . ’ |
| 30 | But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time . |