Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 2 | they were caught out only once and it hurt … sub Andy Clarke ran onto a quickly taken free kick and that was that 1-0 … |
| 3 | Italy did not raise rates because they were considered high enough already and its inflation has been falling . |
| 4 | Converters made of chromite and copper oxide were considered as long ago as the 1970s , but ruled out because they proved less effective than those containing the more precious metals . |
| 5 | Peter Gabriel 's commitment to world music is well known : here the political elements in his work , usually understated , were pushed well forward so that you wound up as moved by his concern as by his skill . |
| 6 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 7 | Battery and fuel switches were turned off either just before or after ground impact and an attempt was made to close the thrust levers , but these would not move . |
| 8 | There is a record of a severe lecture he delivered to Capuchin monks in Prague whom he found were living far more expansively than his own abstemious style would permit . |
| 9 | In the second year , there is an in-depth examination of Scotland since 1660 ; this brings out how many aspects of modern Scotland were shaped as long ago as the late seventeenth century . |
| 10 | The values indicate that , given the assumptions made about firms ' costs , the dominant firms were acting slightly more competitively than Cournot while the blenders were acting less competitively than Cournot . |
| 11 | There are fifty five different numbers at the moment on the football pools , and if people made an investigation of the frequency with which certain matches were selected , then they 'd find that certain numbers were selected far more frequently and others selected far less frequently than other numbers . |
| 12 | Moveables were taxed relatively more lightly than before , land more heavily . |
| 13 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 14 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 15 | Conscious of the fact that his palms were sweating even more markedly than usual , Pogo hurriedly pulled on his white gloves and led his impatient partner on to the floor . |
| 16 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 17 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 18 | She had felt that they were getting on so well until Edie appeared . |
| 19 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 20 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 21 | Of all the Arab states touched by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , few were affected quite as deeply as Jordan . |
| 22 | Seventy years later the cloth merchants of Kano , who ‘ put out ’ yarn for weaving and organized the dyeing and marketing of the cloth , were exporting as far afield as Alexandria across the desert and Brazil across the sea . |
| 23 | Since French prices were rising considerably more rapidly than those in the United States and Germany , it also implied a loss of competitiveness . |
| 24 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |
| 25 | ( The groups were linked informally both locally and regionally , and also through the national Women Against Pit Closures movement . ) |
| 26 | Draught animals , though frequently more valuable , were stolen less often partly because they were more closely looked after , and partly because carters had a reputation as a violent class of men . |
| 27 | They were settled there as early as 1899 , and it was from that address that the only one of their children to marry — Henry James — set off on his wedding day , 8 September 1902 . |
| 28 | Equally , it meant that rivals were judged not only personally but in their relatives too . |
| 29 | She raised her left hand to stroke his scarred cheek and on impulse kissed it again , saying , ‘ Oh , my love , my poor love ; you were hurt even more badly than I was . ’ |
| 30 | The airlines that fly between them were hit much less severely than American and European rivals by the slump in air travel during the Gulf war and they are bouncing back more quickly . |