Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 2 | Converters made of chromite and copper oxide were considered as long ago as the 1970s , but ruled out because they proved less effective than those containing the more precious metals . |
| 3 | There is a record of a severe lecture he delivered to Capuchin monks in Prague whom he found were living far more expansively than his own abstemious style would permit . |
| 4 | In the second year , there is an in-depth examination of Scotland since 1660 ; this brings out how many aspects of modern Scotland were shaped as long ago as the late seventeenth century . |
| 5 | The values indicate that , given the assumptions made about firms ' costs , the dominant firms were acting slightly more competitively than Cournot while the blenders were acting less competitively than Cournot . |
| 6 | Moveables were taxed relatively more lightly than before , land more heavily . |
| 7 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 8 | Conscious of the fact that his palms were sweating even more markedly than usual , Pogo hurriedly pulled on his white gloves and led his impatient partner on to the floor . |
| 9 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 10 | Of all the Arab states touched by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , few were affected quite as deeply as Jordan . |
| 11 | Seventy years later the cloth merchants of Kano , who ‘ put out ’ yarn for weaving and organized the dyeing and marketing of the cloth , were exporting as far afield as Alexandria across the desert and Brazil across the sea . |
| 12 | Since French prices were rising considerably more rapidly than those in the United States and Germany , it also implied a loss of competitiveness . |
| 13 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |
| 14 | Draught animals , though frequently more valuable , were stolen less often partly because they were more closely looked after , and partly because carters had a reputation as a violent class of men . |
| 15 | They were settled there as early as 1899 , and it was from that address that the only one of their children to marry — Henry James — set off on his wedding day , 8 September 1902 . |
| 16 | She raised her left hand to stroke his scarred cheek and on impulse kissed it again , saying , ‘ Oh , my love , my poor love ; you were hurt even more badly than I was . ’ |
| 17 | The airlines that fly between them were hit much less severely than American and European rivals by the slump in air travel during the Gulf war and they are bouncing back more quickly . |
| 18 | But there were perfectly good ways of preserving food without refrigeration , which were followed even more diligently than we do nowadays in the time of the deep freeze . |
| 19 | Temperature reductions of 1–2°C were observed as far away as 2000 km from Kuwait . |
| 20 | Though they were standing as far apart as they could , and though they were both fully dressed , her hand flew to her mouth and her eyes widened . |
| 21 | By this time they were taking species such as the blue , sei and sperm that are found in the deeper oceans , and were whaling as far afield as the Antarctic and Atlantic oceans . |
| 22 | But things were falling apart much earlier than expected . |
| 23 | By the beginning of the '70s twelve teachers had qualified and classes were started as far afield as Walsall and Worcester . |
| 24 | By the look of her , they were sitting there cosily together before he got his hands on her throat . |
| 25 | Our constitutional arrangements were established as long ago as nineteen eighteen though it 's true , of course , that they were amended in nineteen eighty , eighty one . |