Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 2 | There was no reason , however , to link the unrest that was brewing up in the country with the Kamalian dictator . |
| 3 | The dismantling of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the creation of an archaeological park is an idea that was floated back in the days of Napoleonic occupation . |
| 4 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 5 | One of the initiatives er was er the Congress the Wa all Wales Congress that was set up in the miner 's strike for instance . |
| 6 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 7 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 8 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 9 | The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius |
| 10 | Midfielder Scott Sellars was sold to Blackburn for £35,000 and was bought back in the summer for £750,000 . |
| 11 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 12 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 13 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 14 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 15 | One son , for example , was sometimes not allowed to sleep in the house , but was left out in the garden at night . |
| 16 | As was pointed out in the judgment , ‘ In some contractual relationships , for example life assurance and pensions schemes — some aspects of the law regulating conditions of employment , and … various state-run schemes such as national insurance ’ , 35 it is ultimately a matter for the parties concerned whether the individual should be treated as a man or a woman . |
| 17 | We wish to apologize to him , and make it clear , as was pointed out in the article , that he is a man of the utmost integrity who is a good example for kids today . |
| 18 | The whole poem , at this stage as was pointed out in the section on Wordsworth 's creed uses language ambiguously , though it must be obvious that he does believe in ‘ something out there ’ . |
| 19 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 20 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , substantial progress has been made in reducing overcrowding , as of facially defined . |