Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 2 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 3 | Thus was opened the Grand Union , aptly named , for it forged the last link of the ambitious grand design to connect the East Midlands coalfields to London , a total distance of 168 miles . |
| 4 | Part of the ritual of returning home was hearing the loud injunction to passengers to remind them to change if necessary : ‘ Fontanellato , Soragna , Busseto , Noceto , Medesano , si cambia ! ’ |
| 5 | Then in the 1730s the vicar and the usher of the grammar school chose to build in brick ; the usher 's home was named the Red House because this material was so unusual in those parts at the time . |
| 6 | ‘ That subject also was raised the other evening . ’ |
| 7 | To him also was entrusted the general supervision of the economic interests of the Crown in the Forest . |
| 8 | Neither the murder of Sigibert in 575 , nor that of Chilperic nine years later was to alter the political map of the Merovingian kingdoms in the way that the death of Charibert had done , since they each left a single male heir . |
| 9 | The principal aim now was to refute the growing argument that nuclear power could avoid the damage to the environment through the greenhouse effect , but the mixture of suggestions ranging from solar power to replacing light bulbs with those which consumed seventy-five per cent less energy seemed naïve and hardly convincing . |
| 10 | Here was constructed the domestic accommodation , while the space between the mural defences housed stabling , garrison buildings , cattle and villagers . |
| 11 | In 1935 the Committee moved to 35 Hills Road and then was given the large house next door — number 55 - by Jesus College . |
| 12 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 13 | Where was heard the mingled measure |
| 14 | Do n't forget that King Fahd issued a fatwah to the effect that the earth was flat , and that anybody that said it was round was insulting the Muslim religion . |
| 15 | In the person of the ( non-academic ) Henry Newbolt , who subsequently was to chair the Departmental Committee , it found a figure who could articulate many of the themes to which both the fledgling discipline and the Association itself adhered . |
| 16 | One of the main priorities therefore was to make the whole building accessible to disabled people . |