Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison . |
| 2 | My opinions were indeed in many and most important points erroneous ; but my heart was single . |
| 3 | The pound had NOT been devalued — it was just worth less than before , a line echoed by Mr Lamont in TV interviews . |
| 4 | ‘ He had never run on heavy ground in his life and his best form was always on good or fast going , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 5 | Pippin II was still at large and still had supporters . |
| 6 | In its dependence on those presuppositions his biology was more like statistical than either celestial or quantum mechanics ( Hull , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | Constantine 's death in November 1028 , and the marriage of the fifty-year-old Zoe to Romanus Argyrus , who thus gained the Byzantine throne , brought this to nothing , and it was probably in 1029 or later that a stronger link with Cnut became attractive . |
| 8 | It was far from perfect and now it 's over . |
| 9 | When I saw it , in 1985 , Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin was far from finished and still , in part , a building site high in the mountains , which is an even stranger spectacle to come across . |