Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In excavations of the past ephemeral traces of occupation were rapidly swept away to uncover the more substantial structures . |
| 2 | The price rises were also needed urgently to close the gap with wholesale prices for raw materials , which had been increased on Jan. 1 , and with the state purchase prices for agricultural produce , which had gone up in 1990 . |
| 3 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 4 | The separate estimates for large and small companies were then added together to provide the figures shown in Table 2 of this report . |
| 5 | NEARLY 40 new homes were officially opened today to put a roof over the heads of 180 people . |
| 6 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 7 | Throughout the entire work , the accompaniment only picks up absolutely precisely on three occasions , and by the end I was all set metaphorically to murder the conductor ! |
| 8 | While the majority of Japanese remained ignorant of Western social values and customs , and of the background which had given rise to them , the new Meiji government was already moving fast to demolish the formal apparatus of Tokugawa society . |
| 9 | No it 's not that I was just getting together to play a bit of recording stuff . |
| 10 | Here is the opposite extreme , three or four weeks later , when he was still struggling hard to become a dancer but already working hard on his first ballet : |
| 11 | Unita , however , has not yet claimed outright victory in Huambo , where its leader , Jonas Savimbi , has established his headquarters , and the Angolan government said yesterday it was still fighting desperately to save the city . |
| 12 | He was probably sent there to take a look at some local biochemical machines because even a quick glance would be very revealing to an expert , and Ralph Pike is an expert . |
| 13 | It was often used simply to mean a situation better than had prevailed before the war and it had a powerful if vague appeal . |
| 14 | The farm produce was now used exclusively to feed the troops . |
| 15 | It was even prepared publicly to bury the Comintern if " Social Fascism " could be buried with it . |
| 16 | Every one of the Pack was firmly resolved never to give the new farmer cause for taking away their wonderful meeting-place from them . |
| 17 | The rampart front itself was subsequently cut away to accommodate a massive stone wall set on a foundation of limestone , clay and rubble lenses , which presumably incorporated the existing tower at the south-east gate . |