Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 2 | Baal 's name was latterly adopted as a title of honour , both by other gods and mortal kings and leaders , such as Hanni-bal . |
| 3 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |
| 4 | She 's wasting no time on me , Kate thought , as she was deftly served before the girl turned back to show Ace her white teeth once again . |
| 5 | Coventionality meant that her ivory shirt was deftly stripped off , then her bra . |
| 6 | The statement of the Propaganda Minister that Hitler had a ‘ sixth sense ’ for seeing what remained hidden to ordinary mortals was sarcastically said by a young secretary to explain his choice of Italy as an ally . |
| 7 | The incentive to develop the mechanical clock may well have been fostered by the need for it in medieval monasteries , where punctuality was a virtue that was rigorously insisted on and late arrival at divine service or meals was punished . |
| 8 | In the early Soviet period , until well after Stalin 's introduction of the notion of ‘ Socialism in one country ’ , state education was rigorously infused with those same ideas of proletarian internationalism that influenced military circles . |
| 9 | In 1966 Peyton Rous was duly honoured with a Nobel prize . |
| 10 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
| 11 | This would have been enough to allow the guardians to purchase 300 hot cross buns for the inmates at current prices ; that , too , was duly authorised for Easter 1930 . |
| 12 | Needham , who had attended the School under Coombes and later graduated from St. John 's College , Cambridge in 1674 , brought with him from Stockport a petition of 42 names ( including the Mayor ) , and was duly appointed . |
| 13 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 14 | The surveyor was duly appointed by the parties under the lease . |
| 15 | On 15 November , he wrote to me at 41A Roland Gardens : The Tuesday was duly fixed up , and we prepared as good a meal as the rationing system , still in operation , made possible . |
| 16 | Blackadder chose silence , and Ash was duly exposed and found wanting . |
| 17 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 18 | Whilst their more extreme suggestions were disregarded , the degree of concern was duly communicated to the government . |
| 19 | This was duly fitted to said bass and instantly cured the problem . |
| 20 | The prior of the cathedral produced his accounts and was duly assessed at £483. 7s. 6d. in ‘ clere yerlie Revenues and Possessions ’ after sundry deductions from a gross £1,004. 4s. 8d. ‘ as appereth by Rentalles and Bookes of Accompte ’ . |
| 21 | The two events seemed related in their headline impact and Mr Réard 's creation was duly christened . |
| 22 | I did that and was duly engaged to be a clerk in this pretty little mansion which housed the records of our fighting aircraft . |
| 23 | I was late for " call-over " , and every morning I was duly caned . |
| 24 | The road name was duly altered . |
| 25 | A new R. A. F. camp , to which I was duly sent , had just been opened and was still partly empty when one day a new batch of prisoners was announced . |
| 26 | The arrangements concerning the loan were , according to Feigen , confirmed in a letter from the museum director and the painting was duly sent to the museum as a loan pending sale in mid August 1991 . |
| 27 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 28 | The first study was duly undertaken with the co-operation of orthodox medical practitioners and researchers . |
| 29 | By November 1985 the committee was ready to place proposals to a European conference convened in Brussels , where by a unanimous decision of the assembled representatives the European Community Regional Secretariat ( ECRS ) was duly created . |
| 30 | So it was duly arranged , and Uncle William and Aunt Sarah took their little niece for baptism at their recently-rebuilt Zion Chapel in Frome in 1817 , just across the road from the Badcox Lane Baptists . |