Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's right back to the Stamp Acts which were so bitterly and rightly resisted in the early part of the 19th century . ’ |
| 2 | The expenses were thus wholly and exclusively incurred for the purposes of the practice and thus were allowable in computing Sch D , Case II profits . |
| 3 | Moreover , even of the rulers who were more strongly and self-consciously influenced than Maria Theresa and Charles III by the attitudes and assumptions of the Enlightenment none , with the exception of Catherine II , regarded himself as absolute in any complete sense . |
| 4 | In many places the freight yards were more carefully and conveniently located , as in Carl Condit 's Cincinnati , than the passenger stations themselves . |
| 5 | Because the money did n't matter now , and our games were more evenly and bitterly fought , and we agreed that the rivalry should n't — and indeed could n't — get any tenser . |
| 6 | Their architecture , their courtliness , their ceremony were famous — but , like a profile miniature portrait , the result was one-dimensional : the jewels , the fineness of the turbans , the swirling details of the drapery — all were more lovingly and clearly drawn than the man inside ; the sitter 's thoughts and feelings , his character and emotions remain relatively opaque : unfathomed and incomprehensible . |
| 7 | From among these States the interests of El Salvador , Honduras and Costa Rica were more directly and intensely affected than those of other States . |
| 8 | She twisted the damp handkerchief in hands whose nails were still pitifully and bravely painted the way Charlie Hatton had liked them , red and shiny and glittering . |
| 9 | Social relations typical of the integrated professional market persisted into this phase , but there was also a significant development of new social relations , for some kinds of writer , who were now effectively or wholly employed within the new corporate structures . |
| 10 | items consisted of two pairs of hands which were either similarly or differently orientated , and pairs of faces which had either the same expression or a different one . |
| 11 | Although former stables and cow-houses may offer opportunities for conversion into dwellings , it is often the case that they were too cheaply and impermanently built and are too small to provide a structure which is easily adapted into a house . |
| 12 | The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back . |
| 13 | Perhaps the prevailing attitude towards adolescents was most plainly and simply described by the objectives of the Birmingham CCC : ‘ To bridge the gulf between the disciplined life of the school and the comparative freedom of the industrial world ; to ensure that care of the young shall not cease with the end of school life ; and to provide the means for the guidance of young persons through the difficulties and perils of adolescence . ’ |
| 14 | Pronounced both fine and valuable by experts , this exquisite collection of pictures was most happily and appropriately acquired by a generous father for his son , who is chief blender in the newly-formed firm of coffee and tea merchants , Brodie Melrose Drysdate & Co . |
| 15 | The British Columbians , despite dogged persistence , could not cope with a pack in which eight men worked as one and where possession once obtained was so powerfully and cunningly retained . |
| 16 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 17 | It was for these qualities that he was so widely and profoundly respected and liked by the many many people whose love and sympathy will I am sure prove to you now an enormous uplift and support . |
| 18 | It has frequently caused feminists consternation if not dismay to discover that the writer who wrote of women 's shackles was so emotionally and intellectually shackled herself . |
| 19 | She said the immense pressure she had been under took its toll and at times she was so emotionally and physically exhausted she was ‘ just hanging on by my fingernails ’ . |
| 20 | Some critics argue that elite theorists were especially prominent in those West European countries , such as Italy and Germany , where liberal democracy was only weakly and recently established ( Lukács , 1948 ) . |
| 21 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
| 22 | The match was thus stubbornly and honourably drawn . |
| 23 | Hugh began , but Molly was already up and almost running down the stone steps as if she were hurrying towards some long-planned assignation . |
| 24 | No one knew much about it except that it was always there and so accepted . |
| 25 | He went straight out , went to four families , whose names immediately suggested themselves to him , checked his facts and figures , got in while discussion was still on and flatly contradicted the great John and gave him the facts and figures to prove it , to tell him that he was wrong . |
| 26 | In 1990 the industry , which was both vertically and horizontally integrated , became separated into different units ( for fuller details , see e.g. Vickers and Yarrow , 1991 ) . |
| 27 | A former executive officer with the civil service working at the National Engineering Laboratory , East Kilbride , she was now physically and mentally handicapped . |
| 28 | One important non-European or only partly-European state whose position had long been ambiguous , the Ottoman empire , was now finally and firmly incorporated into European diplomacy . |
| 29 | Henry III was indeed morally and financially committed to support the policies of Pope Innocent IV and his own brother , Richard of Cornwall , towards Sicily . |
| 30 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |