Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam said he did n't , he meant myopotamus , which in turn meant coypu that were presumably now in the process of being exterminated , whereupon Mary burst into shouts of anger and distress , calling him a cruel beast and an enemy of ecology . |
| 2 | • Independent Television were most recently at the ELR to film background scenes for the Aussie bodice-ripping soap , Families . |
| 3 | But the conditions and the pay were long since beside the point . |
| 4 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |
| 5 | They were much more like the nuns than were my fellow-countrywomen and co-religionists . |
| 6 | The policeman 's job was to count the knobs and report that they were all right in the morning . |
| 7 | The sides were only just above the water , and often the water came in . |
| 8 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 9 | Zakrevskii 's political opinions were so far to the right that he thought the Moscow Slavophiles were dangerous subversives ; his antipathy to modernization led him to deplore not only the construction of new factories in Moscow but also the expansion of old ones . |
| 10 | We were so far behind the group that King Hussein got us permission to fly the pipeline across Saudi Arabia ; the group which did not have the same permission had to backtrack to Luxor , before crossing the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 11 | In 1980 Davis and Dean Martin were together again in The Cannonball Run , a star-studded comedy headed by Burt Reynolds and directed by Hal Needham . |
| 12 | We were in just over the border . |
| 13 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
| 14 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
| 15 | When you were actually involved in it , when you were down there at the murder coal-face , it could be as complicated and unsatisfactory as marriage . |
| 16 | ‘ Literally hundreds of people were down there on the beach , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Her parents were down there in the garden , Missy , her labrador bitch , at their heels . |
| 18 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 19 | Commissions in an expanding army might be made available without purchase , either to support the interest of Administration politicians or to stimulate recruiting and sometimes both , but rarely could they serve an opposition politician directly , although the fact that military commissions were not immediately under the control of the Government manager for Scotland permitted some indirect approaches by opposition members and their friends . |
| 20 | The children were not even at the back of the house away from the road . |
| 21 | The Barnet crisis dominated yesterday 's meeting although their problems were not even on the agenda . |
| 22 | Essential services like housing and transport were not even on the drawing board . |
| 23 | The two fresh contenders of greatest interest , if only because they were not even in the side when Scotland trounced Ireland at Murrayfield , are Peter Clohessy on the tight-head — a player who incurred the wrath of Australia 's Bob Dwyer but who was held to have made quite an impact on the Lions ' top brass versus Wales — and the young stand-off , Eric Ellwood . |
| 24 | Professor Rudé has shown that its members were not generally from the delinquent , vagrant or criminal poor and were often unfairly described as " a mob " . |
| 25 | The reformers were not merely considering the desire of actual rape victims to avoid publicity . |
| 26 | In January 1642 , Charles I foolishly entered the House of Commons seeking to arrest five leading Members of Parliament ( who were not there at the time ) and he received a magnificent rebuke from the Speaker of the House . |
| 27 | These patients were not necessarily under the care of the consultant with an interest in gastroenterology . |
| 28 | In many parts of the country , leading Tories were not far behind the Whigs in sending in loyal addresses deploring the threat which the rebellion posed to their religion and liberties . |
| 29 | They insisted their four colleges have a spirit which was ‘ practical rather than academical ’ although it was agreed that the 254 places provided in the colleges were not enough by the end of the century . |
| 30 | Although the local fishing waters were not directly by the oil spills , the director of the Bahrain fisheries institute , Jassem Ahmed al-Qaseer , said that the possibility that the deaths were in some way linked to pollution was high . |