Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 2 | This was even more the case , since our losses were again relatively small . |
| 3 | For other members of the department , some of whom were less aware than Joanne of what they were trying to achieve via the new approach , this was even more the case . |
| 4 | But this was no longer a time for words . |
| 5 | This was no longer the case . |
| 6 | This was no longer the case . |
| 7 | The success of the party 's resistance to Home Rule had been founded on absolute faith that it was the most important issue , but by 1914 this was no longer the case . |
| 8 | This was no longer an affront to the public conscience , where the suicide resulted from mental instability . |
| 9 | This was pretty clearly an attempt to nudge the Americans towards saying yes to an aid programme for the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation . |
| 11 | In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table . |
| 12 | This was most probably a reflection of the common grazing systems found in those areas where all farmers were accustomed to working together . |
| 13 | Birds and cats , as everyone knows , do not normally hit it off , and when Dawn met our cat , Jasper , this was most definitely the case . |
| 14 | A mile or two from the front line , troops entered the first communication trenches ; though to call them this was generally both an exaggeration and an anachronism . |
| 15 | The charters S 951 and 953 are gifts in Cornwall purportedly made by him in 1018 , although neither is of certain authenticity , and this was seemingly also the date of his lost foundation charter for Buckfast Abbey in Devon . |
| 16 | This was now only a week away . |
| 17 | This was very much the approach of the Thatcher government 's medium-term financial strategy in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 18 | This was very much the implication which was drawn from Darwin 's work by those anthropologists who published immediately after The Origin of Species , so that they enthusiastically talked of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in their outlines of human history . |
| 19 | This was very much the kind of stuff that Quigley was used to dishing out . |
| 20 | For him this was as much a part of everyday routine as surgery and many children had been greatly helped by him when afraid or emotionally disturbed . |
| 21 | Marx 's reaction to this was as much an attempt to counter the claim being made on behalf of the Prussian bureaucracy in the 1840s that it offered an alternative to constitutionalism , as it was a theoretical objection to Hegel 's interpretation of the state ( Liebich 1982 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ They said , ’ intoned Multhrop , the emphasis indicating that this was quite probably a placebo for his benefit , ‘ that they were going to Rochester . |
| 23 | This was less often the case under the NBC . |
| 24 | The person who decided this was almost always the vicar ; though of recent years he could not make elaborate changes without the support of a majority in his church council . |
| 25 | ( This was almost twice the amount spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska , considered one of the worst oil tanker disasters ever . ) |
| 26 | Most importantly , this was almost entirely the result of immigration , first from the European countries and , following the First World War , from southern USA . |
| 27 | Success brings its own problems and there is no doubt in my mind whatever that the Hunt we saw in 1977 was no longer the Hunt of 1976 . |
| 28 | Keynes was trying to create a consensus around public works and his adoption of protection in the autumn of 1930 was almost certainly an attempt to enlist the support of the growing tariff lobby . |
| 29 | A major cause of Godwin 's banishment in 1051 was almost certainly the unwillingness of his men to fight the king when the time came . |
| 30 | Golf on the Continent in the 1920s was very much a pastime for the rich , whereas in Britain professionals were employed by clubs as low-paid servants : across the Channel they were regarded as the social equals of the members they served , by virtue of their skill at the game . |