Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demand for reserve currencies was growing more quickly than the supply of gold , so a liquidity shortage could only be avoided if the supply of dollars was increased . |
| 2 | The tension was exemplified as early as July 1950 when bilateral political-military conversations were held in Washington . |
| 3 | As a result , a computer was installed in the EPH where the research was carried out shortly after the project was completed , which , being suitable for general administrative tasks such as wordprocessing , had the additional benefit of providing some immediate reward for the efforts of the staff who assisted with the analysis . |
| 4 | They were there at last , Lucy was bundled as gently as speed would allow on to a trolley and whisked off through swing doors , and Virginia stared , hollow-eyed , at Guy as they waited around silently in the reception area . |
| 5 | The first serious attempt was made as early as 1869 by a young Swiss doctor , Johannes Friedrich Miescher ( 1844–1894 ) , whose uncle was Wilhelm His ( 1831–1904 ) , a most unusual anatomist who maintained the forward-looking proposition ‘ La solution finale du problème du développement tissulaire se trouve dans la chimie ’ ( The final solution of the problem of development of organs is to be found in chemistry ) . |
| 6 | As a result , by the end of the seventeenth century popular Anglicanism was enmeshed more closely than ever within the social fabric of the English countryside . |
| 7 | The light was extinguished as quickly as it had come , and her shoulders curled with disappointment . |
| 8 | Their courtship was conducted as avidly as time and finances would allow . |
| 9 | The recombinant protein was phosphorylated extremely inefficiently as compared to the c-Jun bZIP region ( the exposure time in Figure 1C is over 20-fold longer than in Figure 1B ) . |
| 10 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 11 | This was not what Marian wanted , for they had worked out that the smoke of the outlaws , main Camp must be nearly two days march away and help and shelter for Hugh was needed far quicker than that . |
| 12 | Britain 's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age . |
| 13 | Great care was taken to see that this work was disseminated as widely as possible . |
| 14 | Even the spread of increased educational opportunities to rural areas was opposed as late as 1944 on the grounds that farm workers would no longer ‘ know their place ’ . |
| 15 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 16 | A statue of Poseidon of Isthmia was labelled as Zeus , and a portrait representing Philip II of Macedon as Zeus was described quite simply as Zeus . |
| 17 | The organ of London 's Royal Festival Hall was built as recently as 1954 , and although this fine instrument also brings no lack of sound spectacle , its most remarkable aspect is the wide lateral layout of the pipes , which means that the music can effectively emerge from various point sources . |
| 18 | In the Caucasus , meanwhile , Russia was performing more successfully than in the Crimea . |
| 19 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 20 | Also , the Euboian cleruchy may actually and ironically have accelerated the revolt it was designed to prevent — because cleruchiea had a garrison function ; but if the cleruchy was installed as early as 450 it can not have been an immediate grievance . |
| 21 | The impact of the slump was felt most heavily where costs of grain production were highest , in England , but all countries suffered . |
| 22 | The question was answered almost immediately because the man , who had followed Jean along the passage , now pushed past her and entered the kitchen . |
| 23 | There are rumours that the mill was used as recently as 1923 , although no records confirm this , and the mill race was filled in by 1958 . |
| 24 | The famous lamb logo was introduced as early as 1949 . |
| 25 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 26 | The divisional point was established there only because it marked a significant change in grade , and the station buildings , tracks , and settlements always dominated the city . |
| 27 | Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 . |
| 28 | Romania was not unique in cramming its citizens into overcrowded tenements which would have attracted the indignation of Dickens , but the process of urban deprivation was pushed much further because by the 1980s , the shortages of food , fuel and almost every kind of consumer good were worse even than in provincial Russia or small-town Poland . |
| 29 | The aim was to restore as far as was practically possible the conditions of the pre-First World War era . |
| 30 | Our aim was to go as far as the Wellenkuppe ( 3,903 metres ) , a beautiful mountain in its own right . |