Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This legal bonanza was obviously too good to last and ultimately matters were brought to a head in a series of compromises , as a result of which the lease was forfeited but the plaintiffs abandoned all its money claims in the relevant action other than for arrears of rent , and — and for the present purposes this is the crucial matter — the plaintiff released the surety unconditionally from his personal guarantee contained in the licence of 3 December 1973 . |
| 2 | Maltote was only too pleased to agree though Ranulf sulked for a while . |
| 3 | This retaliatory silence was apparently even harder to take than his outcries had been . |
| 4 | Mr Luke Hunter was apparently too arrogant to consider that her answer might not be an automatic ‘ yes ’ . |
| 5 | She was much too weary to eat or even to open her post ; she would do that later . |
| 6 | Here the ‘ cut and paste ’ method of working was just as easy to use and so the program 's sales began to mushroom . |
| 7 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 8 | He was not currently ready to commit that the release after System V.4 ES/MP would be a microkernel-based one . |
| 9 | It was not too far to jump and I know every inch of the lake . |
| 10 | I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer . |
| 11 | It was not therefore necessary to ask whether or not the conduct was justifiable or otherwise . |
| 12 | Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products . |
| 13 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 14 | pilot Albert Thompson was still too shocked to speak when he arrived back at his home in Great Coxwell near Farringdon . |
| 15 | The author draws the conversation to a close with the comment that Murray was still too young to realise that ‘ fighting under any circumstances is a dreadful business , and that the person who gives the cause for the fight does a very wicked thing , utterly hateful in the sight of God . |
| 16 | It must be remembered , of course , that Greek writing throughout the classical period was still relatively difficult to decipher as words were not regularly separated ; the copying of manuscripts was a long and laborious process ; and that silent reading as we know it was very rare ; until the advent of printing in the ancient world books were used mainly for reading aloud , often by a slave . |
| 17 | It was also quite prepared to acknowledge that the Messiah was not a pacific , ethereal , lamb-like saviour , but a rightful and wrathful king , a political and military leader presiding not over any nebulous kingdom of heaven , but over very real terrestrial domains . |
| 18 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 19 | It was far too dangerous to remain where he was , not only for him but for everyone else as well . |
| 20 | She was far too quick-witted to complain and endured silently , but she managed to extract a promise of a new hat and a new dress from him , before getting up an hour later to tidy herself and prepare supper . |
| 21 | ‘ More bloody stale bread and cheese , ’ said Tommy morosely , but Charlie was far too hungry to complain as he scooped up every last crumb with a wet finger . |
| 22 | I was now better able to concentrate and better able to take stock . |
| 23 | It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime . |
| 24 | But it was surely too much to hope that it had taught the father a permanent lesson . |
| 25 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 26 | I was even more infuriated to read that their short separation was a ‘ tragedy ’ . |
| 27 | She got the distinct impression that Melissa was n't best pleased to find that Luke had company . |
| 28 | There began , too , to be a criss-cross of tracks and it was n't always easy to tell if they were the paths of animals or men . |
| 29 | So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of . |
| 30 | M M My Lords , erm on the second point my Noble Friend makes , that 's absolutely true and it really was again quite depressing to see that erm er a member in in in the and the other place Mr Don Foster on behalf of the Liberals , had actually written to every single Chief Education Officer er concerning anti er concerning campaigning against er the opting out policy , as to the other point my Noble Friend makes , it 's absolutely true that erm all the service that have been done and there 's one very recently reported , that the amount of value for money o obtained for every single grant maintained school outstrips the L E A maintained schools . |