Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The correspondents and editors of Fleet Street were courted as assiduously and tactfully as earlier during EEC entry with the result that the Whitelaw regimé had almost invariably a sympathetic and cooperative press on the mainland . |
| 2 | A local tribunal would decide on the advisability of such a move in each particular circumstance , and the members ' common sense would ensure that applications were considered both prudently and sensitively . |
| 3 | Thirdly , direct royal taxes were levied more frequently than ever before , often overlapping with papal dues , and sometimes occurring twice a year and at unprecedented rates , not just a fifth instead of a tenth , but in 1294 a half ! |
| 4 | ‘ They were separated , but they were separated so fully and so completely , and so soon after their birth , that the threat withdrew . ’ |
| 5 | Bones with large ratios of surface area to weight , such as vertebrae , intact skulls , pelves and scapulae , were moved more readily than more compact bones such as mandibular bodies and parts of the major limb bones . |
| 6 | But that was in an era of different attitudes when punches were swapped more freely and no one thought less of a player for standing his ground in a fracas . |
| 7 | These valleys were cut most easily and deeply where fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks . |
| 8 | Different forms of circulating gastrin were studied both basally and postprandially in 13 duodenal ulcer patients before and one month after eradication of H pylori . |
| 9 | So far I have reported myths ( and dreams ) that were held both consciously and unconsciously and indicated how these shape people 's lives . |
| 10 | Meetings and demonstrations were held both locally and nationally in support of the strikers . |
| 11 | As a result , by the end of the seventeenth century popular Anglicanism was enmeshed more closely than ever within the social fabric of the English countryside . |
| 12 | Wh what , well , I , I would n't say just looking similar , I would say additionally looking , but , but in the , in the early days the erm , and I 'll be saying something about this in the , in the lectures , bu but just briefly , that you could you could say there were phases in psychoanalysis , the early days , before both of us were born you were here , the , the aim when the method was , the aim was to release the unconscious , bring it to the surface , and that was regarded as more or less enough . |
| 13 | Born in London , he was educated partly privately and partly at the Tyndall Park School for the Deaf and Dumb , Bristol . |
| 14 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 15 | But the illusion of success within the contras , reach , a success that was in the world 's interests , was fostered most carefully and covertly . |
| 16 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 17 | This was done most dramatically and ruthlessly in Latin America , e.g. in Mexico under Juarez in the 1860s or in Bolivia under the dictator Melgarejo ( 1866–71 ) , but it also took place on a large scale in Spain after the revolution of 1854 , in Italy after the unification of the country under the liberal institutions of Piedmont , and wherever else economic and legal liberalism triumphed . |
| 18 | His ability to organise often went unseen — though never unappreciated — since everything was done so unobtrusively and apparently without effort . |
| 19 | Furthermore , provided Ms Jones 's original statement reserving room 214 was made either knowingly or recklessly an offence under s.14 Trade Descriptions Act 1968 has been committed . |
| 20 | They reported last week that the NINA electron accelerator at Daresbury in Cheshire was built too slowly and too late to produce research comparable with that of similar machines elsewhere ( New Scientist 21 April , p 133 ) . |
| 21 | Certainly his skill as an administrator was a vital factor in ensuring that so much was built so quickly and magnificently . |
| 22 | After the two boys left the farmhouse , it was searched as systematically and thoroughly as the other houses . |
| 23 | Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 25 | A circular type known as Clava tombs can be found at the northern end of the Great Glen , many without an entrance , which would seem to signify that each was used only once and then sealed . |
| 26 | How do consumers know whether their veal was produced inhumanely abroad or humanely in this country ? |
| 27 | The grade considered to be 3+ was stained as densely as simultaneously stained ( control ) submandibular tissue . |
| 28 | The result that Friedman 's approach to monetary policy is no longer inferior to a more ‘ flexible ’ approach , once one incorporates rational expectations into the basic aggregate supply and demand model , was demonstrated more formally and generally by Sargent and Wallace ( 1975 ) and is sometimes known as the Sargent-Wallace proposition . |
| 29 | Odd-Knut agreed , but only if the bottle was found tomorrow rather than today . |
| 30 | From the maps of the spread of the behaviour ( Figure 3.12 ) it looks as if the habit was invented independently more than once . |