Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if all this were n't reason enough , there 's always the environment . |
| 2 | Costs in the accounts relating to Scheme 2 were not material . |
| 3 | This was n't part of anything . |
| 4 | This was n't selfishness or greed , just a feeling that it was due . |
| 5 | This was n't ocean and her frilly skirts dancing up the beach : this stuff was a giant slug swelling and heaving its monstrous skirts along the sand like a curse . |
| 6 | This was n't defeat , it was a drubbing . |
| 7 | Nearly one-sixth of authorities mentioned that the development of training packages , to be used in-house , and preferably developed by themselves , was needed to expand their training , indicating their belief that this was where expansion would need to come from , and that such training packages were likely to achieve more effective training because they would be tailor made . |
| 8 | ‘ You have a very positive standing , my dear young lady , ’ said Mr Stanforth patiently , and perhaps a little patronisingly , too , for this was where money entered into the reckoning , and very young concert artists and music teachers with a living to make must surely react to the alluring image . |
| 9 | Full skirts — goodness knows how many petticoats made walking very hard , so all this almost enforced leisure upon them , and this was again part of the duty of the woman to show that she did n't need to work , she did n't in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her . |
| 10 | This was neither hell nor Cambridge , 1811 . |
| 11 | While water certainly found a place in the past in the landscapes of famous gardeners like Capability Brown , this was scarcely water gardening as we know it today . |
| 12 | This was mostly afternoon and evening clothes . |
| 13 | But this was surely fantasy . |
| 14 | I even remember it was a Sunday and thinking that this was not day to be flying your last mission . |
| 15 | But this was not racism , because there are ‘ reasons ’ for the non-recruitment . |
| 16 | Perhaps this was not evolution but revolution . |
| 17 | This was not hype but hwyl . |
| 18 | This was not life ! |
| 19 | Mr Dewar said he abhorred the thought of civil disobedience adding he had been assured by Scotland United members that this was not part of their strategy . |
| 20 | This was not part of the display , i hasten to add ! |
| 21 | The laughter swelled , and was supplemented by applause , which died away slowly as the crowd gradually realized that this was not part of the act . |
| 22 | This was not insecurity , it was a world of pleasing affectionate options . |
| 23 | This was not altruism on the part of the brewers , but was born out of a realisation that preserving the best of their heritage could make them money . |
| 24 | This was not percipience in my mother , but a belated riposte to my revelation , the day before , of the role of the chrysanthemum in foreign culture . |
| 25 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 26 | This was why religion was the one subject required by British law to be taught in schools . |
| 27 | This was only part of her character . |
| 28 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 29 | They seemed part of the Castle 's fire , each flame a plunging spear ; and Ruth was beyond remembering this was only magic . |
| 30 | This was obviously anathema to Ricardou , in particular , and a fairly acrimonious exchange erupted during the conference sessions surrounding this question of referentiality . |