Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manville was dead long before the heavy iron chains fastened around his ankles dragged his body to the bottom of the Potomac River . |
| 2 | He was right out in the open and the wind was blowing towards us . |
| 3 | We could at that moment quite justifiably have concluded that the date of the bank was most probably in the early second century , like Verulamium , but we were saved from making this serious error by the presence in the trench of a small hearth immediately below the first load of rampart spoil . |
| 4 | She was rarely there for the full rehearsals . |
| 5 | But the time was long past for the final roll-call of his battalion of the People 's Militia , recruited to defend Berlin 's Wilhelmplatz district against the advance of the Red Army . |
| 6 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 7 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 8 | It was all over in the 10th . |
| 9 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 10 | It was all right for the active partner , but how did the other fellow get his satisfaction . |
| 11 | It was all there in the lofty , superior look he threw her . |
| 12 | It was all there in the sharp and arrogant , ‘ You have a particular interest in my secretary ? ’ with which he flattened her . |
| 13 | If the position regarding bureaucratic independence versus party control is uncertain in Britain , it was less so in the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | This was especially so under the tenth-century Saxon , Otto III , so weakening the customary and native law . |
| 15 | This was especially so in the early post-war years . |
| 16 | This was especially so in the German tradition , where several important schools developed . |
| 17 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 18 | It was perhaps only in the last ten years that Broadstairs had fully come to realise what treasure trove lay buried in its midst , and plaques began enthusiastically to sprout everywhere . |
| 19 | it was only just before the Second World War that simultaneous interpreting became possible ( as well as acceptable ) at conferences . |
| 20 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 21 | But Collins was soon back in the thick of the action , fisting clear a McCaffrey free kick and throwing himself across his line to make a fine two handed stop from a Kavanagh volley . |
| 22 | The Tony Castro-designed Juno IV was comfortably ahead of the other boats of her size and won on handicap by over a minute . |
| 23 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |
| 24 | He might have brought it with him but more likely it was already there with the other tools in the garage . ’ |
| 25 | The Company 's line of communication , which placed it fairly close to the centre of northern North America , was already long and was open only in the ice-free months . |
| 26 | Masklin was just ahead of the other two as they raced up the aisle between the rows of humans , who paid no attention at all to three tiny blurs running between the seats . |
| 27 | It was just out of the blue really . |
| 28 | The leading British driver is Malcolm Wilson , whose Opel was just out of the top 10 last night in 11th place , two minutes ahead of Gwyndaf Evans in his Ford Sierra in 12th place . |
| 29 | ‘ It would look wonderful in a photograph , ’ she remarked thoughtlessly , and was once again at the receiving end of annoyance . |
| 30 | Then in 1952 Coppi was once more in the yellow jersey at the old Parc des Princes track in Paris . |