Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot wanted to tell her how they were much better staying just as they were . |
| 2 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 3 | Some of the Report 's data were criticized , and it was argued that the specific social effects of closures were not fully appreciated even if some of the wider social and economic repercussions had been noted . |
| 4 | Small children were still very much ‘ seen and not heard ’ , and so were not usually produced downstairs until after nursery tea ; then , ultra-clean and uncomfortable visits to the grown-ups took place in rooms which bore no resemblance to their cosy everyday nursery world . |
| 5 | It was at first , through proximity , an extended family whose members were as strongly bound together as those who live within the nuclear structure . |
| 6 | Mothers were almost never taken seriously until the child had gross symptoms … |
| 7 | By the inter-war years married women were no longer regarded primarily as ornamental and sexually innocent creatures ; the ideal companionate marriage also involved an expectation of sexual harmony . |
| 8 | Sassou-Nguesso was most recently re-elected both as party chairman and as President of the Republic at the PCT 's fourth congress in July 1989 [ see p. 36842 ] . |
| 9 | The potato was not widely used directly as food in England until the nineteenth century , although its capacity to sustain a family on very little land has been credited with the rapid Irish population growth from the late eighteenth century ( Connell 1950a , Langer 1975 ) . |
| 10 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 11 | But the problem was n't even helped there because you see he could n't get up the stairs easily , because the wardrobe was in the way . |