Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paleontology had always had a geographical dimension , and this was exploited more thoroughly as the exploration of the fossil record became possible on a world-wide scale . |
| 2 | In the days of lead type this was done almost automatically because the pieces all had to fit together without any gaps . |
| 3 | This was proving even harder than she 'd anticipated , she thought , nervous hilarity bubbling up inside her . |
| 4 | He was n't prepared to do anything else there no ar and he was he was to have these plant hire , you know these two , when when his old man used to work us us in the quarry , well this was working up there as well , he had lads working on the plant hire for him . |
| 5 | To ensure that this was accomplished as effectively as possible there should be positive discrimination in favour of those who have special needs . |
| 6 | These were articulated more often when students were invited to talk about the arts than when students simply talked about physics . |
| 7 | All was cleared up later when the hotel manager came to investigate but our sympathies must go to the hapless Security Gorilla , as recent photographic evidence proves that mistaking Bob Dylan for a tramp with salubrious lodgings in Cardboard City is something even hardened celeb watchers like ourselves have done at some point or another . |
| 8 | There were perhaps too few such women in this social cross-section of the immediate post-war generation ( 3 per cent of the age group , 40 cases in the pay regression ) for us to draw such conclusions , but similar analyses of a contemporary survey of graduates ( Dolton and Makepeace , 1986 ) also indicates that male graduates in their early thirties were doing considerably better than women . |
| 9 | Although the military were used more sparingly than in period one — the government intervened to prevent their use in the South Wales coal dispute of 1910 , for example — they were despatched to South Wales during the national railway strike of 1911 , when fears of imminent revolution were rife . |
| 10 | Reddy employed the same technique as Johansson to arrive at the least expensive energy — first estimating needs , then filling them through sources of power and energy efficiency , starting with the cheapest method , and when that was used as fully as possible , moving to the next cheapest . |
| 11 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |