Example sentences of "was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no secret that Michael Foot — believing that he had a duty to the late Dick Crossman to procure the publication of the diaries — was courageously prepared to accept this risk and to bare his breast for the dagger . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Baal 's name was latterly adopted as a title of honour , both by other gods and mortal kings and leaders , such as Hanni-bal . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | , Sir John Audley Frederick ( 1851–1937 ) , mechanical engineer , was born in Liverpool 25 August 1851 , the second of three sons ( there was also a daughter ) of John Bridge Aspinall , QC , who was latterly the recorder of the city of Liverpool , and his wife Bertha Wyatt , daughter of John Audley Jee , merchant of Mount Vernon , Liverpool , and descendant of the inventor John Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Coventionality meant that her ivory shirt was deftly stripped off , then her bra . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For Owen , whose materialist doctrine was rigorously environmental and mechanical , but not dialectical , that agent could only be millennial , a kind of secular second coming after which we should all in a moment , in a twinkling of an eye , be changed . |
| 12 | The Spectator article secured him an invitation to Hampton Court and , having offered his specification for the repair work , he was duly hired . |
| 13 | With the help of co-operative Panamanians , it was duly seized and a provisional Panamanian government established , with an American warship in the background . |
| 14 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 15 | When he was duly elected , Machin merely remarked to his wife ‘ You 'll be mayoress to the youngest mayor … |
| 16 | So Lord 's decided that all men should henceforth be ‘ cricketers ’ and the Gentlemen and Players fixture was duly abandoned . |
| 17 | The inter-governmental conference which British Sources had refused to countenance all day was duly nodded through . |
| 18 | It is a measure of Quisling 's obstinacy that he was back as ‘ premier ’ — albeit the puppet of Reichskommissar Josef Terboven — within two years , thus ensuring that he shared the guilt for the occupation war-crimes for which he was duly shot in 1945 . |
| 19 | False hope was duly dashed . |
| 20 | If any sweat was lost in reaching this target it was not noticeable , and a six-wicket win was duly recorded . |
| 21 | With three overs left 35 were still needed ; Walsh was duly hammered for 16 , all but one to Lamb , but the penultimate over from Patterson yielded only six . |
| 22 | He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain . |
| 23 | These misgivings in the face of the anaesthetist were weakened when in 1853 , Queen Victoria 's physician asked Dr John Snow of Edinburgh to administer chloroform to the Queen , who welcomed his help and was duly delivered of Prince Leopold . |
| 24 | This was duly noted by Mary Sherwood ( 1775–1851 ) , author of the often lachrymose children 's classic , The Fairchild Family . |
| 25 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 26 | When the English diplomat Sir Ralph Sadler visited her mother , Mary of Guise , on 22 March 1543 , the infant was duly unwrapped , so that her healthy state could be clearly seen , and Sadler could report that ‘ it is as goodly a child as I have seen of her age , and as like to live , with the grace of God ’ . |
| 27 | A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent . |
| 28 | They selected Hughes , who was duly elected with an 11,867 majority , but two years ago changed their mind and de-selected him . |
| 29 | A pukka building was duly erected , but its medical function has somehow been indefinitely postponed . |
| 30 | The placement was duly made , several years after the first formal contact . |