Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so much more businesslike to spread out needlework or write letters sitting at a table . |
| 2 | Work places have always had supervisors to measure output , so it is hard to explain why it was so much more painful to work plugged into the big brain . |
| 3 | It was obviously far more interesting to spend his time chatting up the local talent . |
| 4 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 5 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 6 | A Dragon-Dictate system was evaluated ; the results showed that speech recognition was suitable in circumstances where a keyboard could not easily be used , but was not yet sufficiently reliable to replace keyboard entry . |
| 7 | Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory . |
| 9 | But it was not now so easy to get rid of Anselm : he refused either to comply with Henry 's demand or leave the country , and for the next few weeks he lived quietly on his manors . |
| 10 | Anyway , as elections approached it was not always politically desirable to have a tight monetary policy . |
| 11 | On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades . |
| 12 | Oh that 's not as bad as I thought because I 'd always heard that it was like really really expensive to produce er material in braille . |
| 13 | But I was still far too young to venture out in the world ; it was unheard of even for an older girl to leave her home and family and become independent . |
| 14 | I was now even more impatient to see Mr Rochester , but when I was having tea with Mrs Fairfax in the afternoon , the first thing she said was , ‘ It 's fine weather for the master 's journey . ’ |
| 15 | It was now no longer necessary to make even token gestures towards Ukrainian opinion . |
| 16 | It was now no longer sufficient to accept it as the more or less automatic result of the existence of a number of completely sovereign States bound together by geographical contiguity . |
| 17 | The swollen monstrosity behind the wheel shrouded in the smoke and steam of its own cooling was surely much too large to have once been human . |
| 18 | There was then a complex discussion of reflexes which both Millers enjoyed but was n't all that easy to follow for the uninitiated . |
| 19 | Her writing was n't all that easy to read but I think it 's correct . ’ |
| 20 | Once Europeans had become accustomed to flip-flops , it was n't all that difficult to get used to mitten shaped socks , each holding the big toe in its own little pocket and letting the other four doss down together . |
| 21 | ‘ She was n't any more anxious to spoil things than your mother . ’ |
| 22 | I was then almost too busy to shudder . |
| 23 | The Methodist Church , which owned the hall , decided four years ago that it was no longer financially feasible to keep it running . |
| 24 | It was no longer so easy to remain an island of reason when every timber surrounding us had been magically selected ; when our departure had been synchronized not with the weather , but with inner portents of another kind of time . |
| 25 | One expert achieved unwanted fame by stating , categorically , that it was no longer technically possible to build modern aircraft out of wood . |
| 26 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |