Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association was once again well supported by the media during Wings Appeal . |
| 2 | Industrial investment was even more badly affected : in 1980 prices , UK industrial investment was about £8,200 million in 1979 but by 1987 was only £7,586 million ( British Business , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Certainly the industry 's borrowings amounted to a significant portion of the new capital raised on the London market , and the profitability of its investment was below that typically earned by private industry . |
| 4 | The intestinal permeability test result was even less reliably related to the gliadin intake than the antigliadin antibody test . |
| 5 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |
| 6 | Sheikha Grandmother 's mind was now almost wholly concentrated upon the Qur'an , its words and their inner meanings . |
| 7 | This equity was not always easily achieved , however , since the organisation and philosophy of schooling in some divisions was somewhat at odds with the values embraced by the project . |
| 8 | However , such social research was not only governmentally inspired . |
| 9 | While the shame of the public defamation felt by the typical Nazi lawyer was allegedly almost enough to drive him to suicide , reactions of astonishment , disbelief , anxiety , and criticism can be read between the lines of the responses from judges and the justice administration , and the most outspoken reaction was that the Führer had been badly misinformed and his ‘ wholly unexpected attack on justice ’ much ‘ discussed and criticized ’ . |
| 10 | In the South , where Labour was not so deeply influenced by trade-union traditions , the local parties were becoming an increasingly coherent pressure group with a common outlook and a tendency to look outside the Labour Party and towards the Communists for ideological guidance . |
| 11 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 12 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 13 | The Poor Law was already almost entirely financed by local poor rates ; rates contributed over one-third of total educational expenditure ( £8.8 m. in 1900 ) and the major part of the cost of public health , housing and other measures . |
| 14 | Berkeley wrote more fully in the Three Dialogues , but this work was unfortunately hardly better understood than the Principles itself . |
| 15 | The two-hour spectacular took their breath away , even if its plot was not that far removed from the original . |
| 16 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 17 | The equipment was usually quite well protected , but the wind was driving rain in where it usually did not reach . |
| 18 | Declaring that the local rescue home was far too laxly run , she demanded a stricter system of surveillance . |
| 19 | Peace was once again only secured by the despatch of Federal marshals , and Johnson immediately pressed Congress for a Voting Rights Act . |
| 20 | But Robert 's eye was no longer seriously drawn to the stage . |
| 21 | And the band was n't as profoundly tuned into the music as he 'd wanted . |
| 22 | On the other hand the pacifist position that war was a consequence of human nature was also still widely held , even though pacifism had been politically defeated within the labour movement on the Left . |
| 23 | But the point was not very forcefully made . |
| 24 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 25 | But on helping them decide how to vote , opinion was much more evenly divided : 36 per cent preferred television , 24 per cent the press , and a remarkable 40 per cent said the two sources were equally useful ( Table 6.12 ) . |
| 26 | Early in the nineteenth century , eight hours came to predominate , although a six-hour shift was even then still worked in exceptionally hot and difficult mines . |
| 27 | But Churchill 's enthusiasm for a summit meeting was not yet fully shared by the Foreign Office and cabinet colleagues . |
| 28 | Sir Peter even suggested yesterday that business was not just about making profits . |
| 29 | In terms of goodness of fit and accuracy of adjustment , specific outcome was also significantly better predicted with our model compared to the Pugh model : 1.0 v 0.7 , from -45.278 to -16.072 v from -45.278 to -28.881 , respectively , for a cut point of 0.7 ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 30 | His prolific imagination was never more happily displayed . |