Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern for this issue has recently surfaced in studies that were indeed set up originally to try to isolate the factors that determine which among a selected sample of children are likely later in life to have a schizophrenic breakdown . |
| 2 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 3 | Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas . |
| 4 | Doctors and physiotherapists were never allowed close enough to examine him . |
| 5 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |