Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no secret that Michael Foot — believing that he had a duty to the late Dick Crossman to procure the publication of the diaries — was courageously prepared to accept this risk and to bare his breast for the dagger . |
| 2 | Ammunition exploded , bullets began to fly , John Burn was incredibly lucky to escape serious injury , a mile and a half mile away in Crook an excited Lance Henderson was dashing to his bike to see for himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 4 | Lent my original copy of this to some dodgy DJ , so I was dead pleased to get another copy with new sexy mixes . |
| 5 | It was at least ten summers past that the Colonel and Miss Danziger had met at The Tamarisks and the Colonel , finding the guest a most informed companion , had asked her assistance in helping him pin-point locations where he was most likely to uncover particular fossils , and attract particular moths . |
| 6 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 7 | His intermittent convulsive attacks required resuscitative treatment in hospital and by December 1991 the consultant paediatrician , whose view was supported by the health authority and by other medical opinion , considered that it was medically inappropriate to use mechanical ventilation procedures in any future resuscitation . |
| 8 | Reznor was not aware of it , however , and was somewhat surprised to find nasty things going bump in the night . |
| 9 | It was feared that Arafat was so desperate to achieve diplomatic action in the early months of the Uprising that he might betray its purpose by a renewal of the PLO Jordanian alliance . |
| 10 | It was so good to meet old friends and make new ones in such a happy atmosphere that this social event will no doubt be repeated in the future . |
| 11 | But I was told that since I was so keen to have these things I had better think about how we would use them when the time came . |
| 12 | Groaning again , she closed her eyes as her fingers squeezed and relaxed , and wondered why Florence was so hard to milk this morning . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a strange mistake to make seeing as he was so careful to wipe any marks he had left behind . |
| 14 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 15 | Chartism , although defeated , endowed sections of the working class with a sense of class identity that may have lacked a vision of the totality of class relationships , but was sufficiently powerful to define broad boundaries of interest . |
| 16 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 17 | The Consortium would need to be convinced the Carmel Woods IDO was sufficiently important to merit further action . |
| 18 | In fact he was commenting upon and sometimes parodying a form of love lyric which was already familiar and was composing for an audience which was sufficiently sophisticated to appreciate this approach . |
| 19 | They decided that video evidence — millions of viewers saw the offending blow on BBC 's Match of the Day — was sufficiently incriminating to bring 29-year-old Wright to book . |
| 20 | It was terribly interesting to see other painters in action — painters whose work we 're familiar with . |
| 21 | Peter Yeo was obviously delighted to do any service , however modest , for her and bustled her away , returning belatedly to ask McLeish if he would like a similar facility , which he accepted , obedient to the unwritten CID rule that you looked after your physical needs at any moment that opportunity offered , because you never knew when you were going to get stuck for hours without help . |
| 22 | But it was obviously possible to book another P A. I mean that 's |
| 23 | It was obviously advantageous to record those events and the aftermath as quickly as possible to preserve them for the benefit of those who came after us . |
| 24 | Authority chairman Tony Russell said the hearing , which had already cost the authority £90,000 , was only due to last ten days but now there was prospect of it continuing for up to three months . |
| 25 | Hari knew she should move away but she could n't , she wanted him to kiss her , to know the feel of a man 's lips against her own , it was only natural to feel that way , was n't it ? |
| 26 | Central News reports on the axeing of the soap and actress , Jane Rossington says she 's not surprised as it was only supposed to last 6 weeks anyway . |
| 27 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman said on June 10 that the supply of a French nuclear plant to Pakistan [ see pp. 38631 ; 38726 ] was a " very , very remote possibility " as Pakistan was only prepared to accept nuclear safeguards " provided India also does so " . |
| 28 | For the final countdown , however , it was only proper to dispatch young Paxman to South Wales , to put Walden back in his ferret-cage , to give Dimbleby some swingometers to play with , and to entrust the real bluster , the real cut and thrust , to the greatest pro of them all , Sir Robin . |
| 29 | A married woman or widow can not get HRP for any tax year in which she was only liable to pay reduced rate national insurance contributions . |
| 30 | Up to 1970 it seemed that it was mutually beneficial to allow large scale migration to remove ‘ surplus ’ labour from these southern rural regions . |