Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night all these goods were secretly taken away and disappeared for good . |
| 2 | And the people in front were obviously fleeing rather than decoying : Murray 's men . |
| 3 | I could see , moreover , that if I were quickly to go outside and conceal my person behind the large rhododendron bush beside the path , it would not be long before Mr Cardinal came by . |
| 4 | Newsletters were circulated giving details of campaigns , and some of these , such as those sent by Bartholomew Burghersh to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1346 , were carefully phrased so as to generate public support for the invasion of Normandy . |
| 5 | Objectives and decisions were internally generated rather than responding to external political pressures . |
| 6 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 7 | As far as those artists go you must ask in each case what proportion of their careers were actually spent here and did their stay in America fundamentally affect their work ? |
| 8 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 9 | But he was badly informed again and had n't calculated for the Americans . |
| 10 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 11 | Rain fell heavily ; the plain they were crossing became inundated ; the policeman 's Scotch terrier was suddenly carried away and drowned in a swollen torrent . |
| 12 | It was also true that the renewed Triple Alliance of the same year was soon buttressed so as to isolate France and Russia still more . |
| 13 | That this was significantly new is demonstrated by the bitter resistance to it from people who had been near the heart of the Church , yet it was finally approved overwhelmingly and constitutes the most precise dogmatic statement within this ‘ dogmatic constitution ’ . |
| 14 | He tried to catch the attendant 's eye but the man was already turning away and reaching for the nozzle of the pump hose . |
| 15 | I was just thinking rather than having plain which you 'd have to pay for anyway a plain piece of glass and , and er putting lead on it yourself I think that 's a brilliant idea that . |
| 16 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 17 | Mohammed Moubarak 's gelding was always travelling smoothly and quickened in fine style to beat today 's opponent Eastleigh by two and a half lengths . |
| 18 | She was more relaxed now and looked straight at him . |
| 19 | She was both taken aback and flattered . |
| 20 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 21 | The man called Percy was now leaning forward and saying , ‘ Those two old girls in the old people 's home , remember ? |
| 22 | She was also aware of Angel , the Brit-hater , who had n't once eaten at the same table as her since she arrived , who was now riding harder and turning faster than any of the others , urging his pony on with great pelvic thrusts . |
| 23 | That aside , the rest of the car was well put together and felt solid . |
| 24 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 25 | Among its recommendations were ( i ) the creation of vents and energy absorption systems which would dissipate the force of an explosion ; ( ii ) the repositioning of cargo containers to ensure that any explosive energy was either directed outwards or absorbed by other baggage containers ; and ( iii ) improving flight recorders so that they continued working after a power failure . |
| 26 | It was therefore diluted instead and phased out during 1984 , although in some areas , over-zealous cadres were still busy checking bourgeois tendencies well into 1985 . |
| 27 | It was held that the clause did not protect the owners against liability for negligence : they could be liable either strictly , for failing to supply a cycle fit for its purpose , or in negligence ; it was therefore construed only as covering the strict liability . |
| 28 | The work was never made quite as planned , but several aspects of it occur in the ballet he made in Israel many years later , and some in works for Sadler 's Wells in the fifties . |
| 29 | Michael Roberts was duly entrusted with the steering in the Newmarket Classic , but his mount was never going well and came eighth . |
| 30 | Michael Roberts was duly entrusted with the steering in the Newmarket Classic , but his mount was never going well and trailed in eighth . |