Example sentences of "was [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | , 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 . ] . |
| 2 | David had been shocked ; Jonathan , who was altogether the more worldly , found the spectacle to have been immensely diverting . |
| 3 | It was overwhelmingly the empire of India . |
| 4 | e.g. " Nationalism was overwhelmingly the most important factor in European affairs ibid.p.25 |
| 5 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
| 6 | It was mostly the village pub at Bourn we went to , or the similar one at Great Gransden , where we would sit in front of the fire and have a few drinks , and Henry would try to get Rosemary into a corner . |
| 7 | ‘ But it was mostly the other thing , that he 'd had to sweat all his life and she 'd never done a hand 's turn . |
| 8 | The pattern for aircraft was mostly the same . |
| 9 | It was mostly the head , and a grubby stub of spine and ribs , and about half the skin . |
| 10 | While some investigators found that oxygen gave direct symptom relief , others suggested that any benefit was mostly the placebo effect of air on the rhinopharynx . |
| 11 | Like many others , the problem was mostly the way she held the baby . |
| 12 | But it was mostly the Clydesdales . |
| 13 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 14 | The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man , who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink , and had forgotten to lock the door ! |
| 15 | ‘ That was rather the impression that I gathered , sir , ’ the lawyer said with a lift of one ironic eyebrow . |
| 16 | It was rather the reputation of the individual master that brought the students than the particular location or city . |
| 17 | What he perceived was rather the state of the doctor and he inferred from this that a change must have taken place at some time before that moment . |
| 18 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
| 19 | A good example of this can be seen in the area of educational research : before 1944 in England and Wales , education at a grammar school was predominantly the preserve of middle-class children whose parents had the ability to pay , with only a minority of ‘ free-place ’ pupils attending . |
| 20 | The Department of the Environment survey confirmed the results of earlier work carried out by Bristol University School for Advanced Urban Studies ; that it was predominantly the better-off and middle-aged tenants who bought , usually with more than one wage-earner in the household . |
| 21 | But the dramatic decline to 40 MPs in the 1924 General Election was effectively the electoral sign that the Liberal Party was no longer a realistic party of government . |
| 22 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 23 | As Tacitus informs us , all the tribes occupying that territory on the Roman side of the Rivers Trent and Avon , which was effectively the new province , were disarmed . |
| 24 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 25 | From then until the dissolution of the Empire by Napoleon in 1806 the Imperial crown was effectively the hereditary possession of the Habsburg family . |
| 26 | Advocating a full multiparty democratic system and the CPSU 's abandonment of " democratic centralism " , this was effectively the first faction openly to have emerged in the CPSU since the 1920s . |
| 27 | That was effectively the end of Liverpool 's challenge , and Spartak confirmed their greater class with a second three minutes from time . |
| 28 | Entertaining such a dream was naive ; yet , compared to Cézanne , who shared the instinct to hide away from civilisation , he was paradoxically the epitome of subtle thought , as his letters increasingly testified . |
| 29 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger had previously worked on original scripts ; this was the first of four novel adaptations , of which The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the only one in black and white , was paradoxically the best , though they were the supreme colour artists of British cinema in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 30 | This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory , because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser . |