Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 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 .
4 Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck .
5 The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance .
6 The product was discreetly set out towards the back with the label half turned away .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It was eventually swallowed up by the expanding city .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Christopher Addison was unpopular because of his advanced social policy and he was eventually driven out by the Unionists .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year .
19 As such , much of the debate over homosexuality was intimately bound up with the wider argument that has already been identified over the role and significance of the modern ‘ nuclear ’ or ‘ bourgeois ’ family .
20 It is only too obvious that this balance between action and personal life was intimately bound up with the conditions of clandestine action and could not survive it .
21 The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud .
22 Hastings converted beautifully from the right touchline and added the points when replacement loose forward Richard Webster was powerfully driven over between the posts in the final minute .
23 In Chambers Street in 1810 , for example , Mr. Isaac was nicely settled in alongside the very English-sounding Chas .
24 The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging …
25 It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following .
26 There was enough left over in the 5lb bag to give most of the plot another top dressing last month .
27 Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol .
28 She was so wrapped up in the portrait that she heard nothing until the clink of glass told her she was not alone , and as she spun round she found Alain turning from pouring himself a drink .
29 I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top .
30 I was so shook up by the screeching I could n't rightly say what happened . ’
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