Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 2 | The Hungarians and Belgians broke away from the Italians and the two British crews dropped back and were being closely tailed by Folkesson/Skoldbek at Chertsey although the Swedish crew were only to get as far as Shepperton before blowing up . |
| 3 | The difficult and often contradictory principles of this age-long argument were memorably expressed as early as Plato 's version of the Apology of Socrates and , with a different bearing , in his Republic . |
| 4 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 5 | In general , observers noted that the economic reforms were not proceeding as quickly as originally envisaged . |
| 6 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 7 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 8 | These males entered the pool as they reached it and were soon calling as lustily as those first there . |
| 9 | They were still chatting happily together as they walked inside the inn and Seb called , ‘ Two pints of ale please , landlord . ’ |
| 10 | Some junctions were clearly recalled more often than others ( Cochran 's Q=220.5 , df=39 , p<0.01 ) , ranging from junction 17 , entering a dual carriageway from a slip road , which was correctly recalled by 14 of the 28 subjects to 11 junctions which were never correctly recalled . |
| 11 | In 1972–3 full-time courses in the polytechnics began to offer computing studies as part of the normal curriculum and attempts were also made as early as 1969 to include a European language ; while the latter proved to be an irrelevance , the former has certainly not . |
| 12 | The Lebanese press had obligingly produced a comic version of McFarlane ; but the film versions of both Reagan and North were also set as early as November 1986 , and did not much change thereafter . |
| 13 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 14 | Her parents were out walking there just before she was born . |
| 15 | Children could leave school entirely at thirteen on possession of the ‘ labour certificate ’ , which required either a minimum attendance record or the passing of Standard VII , although it seems that the certificate was rarely if ever refused and 10 per cent of 10–15-year-old girls were fully employed as late as 1911 . |
| 16 | However , Airbus Industrie , the four-country European consortium which manufactured the A-320 , had long argued that " fly-by-wire " avionics , by which flying control systems were initially activated electronically rather than hydraulically , made the aircraft safer . |
| 17 | After ‘ most diligent discussion ’ convocation concluded that the process against the Despensers was erroneous , sinful ( sic ! ) and revocable ; on the king 's orders these conclusions were solemnly published as quickly as possible in each church in the land , together with an indulgence of forty days for those praying for the health of the king and the peace of the realm . |
| 18 | Potential inferences which were disconfirmed by a later statement were invariably rejected , and inferences which were neither confirmed nor disconfirmed were falsely identified as often as they had been in the neutral condition . |
| 19 | It was all happening comfortably just as she wished . |
| 20 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 21 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 22 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 23 | Although Clwyd was not hit as badly as Gwynedd , there was widespread flooding , including pensioners ' flats in Cae Brachty , Mold . |
| 24 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 25 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |
| 26 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
| 27 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 28 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 29 | Her temperature was not falling as rapidly as had been expected , and this , he feared , had been caused by her determination to get out of bed too soon . |
| 30 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |