Example sentences of "[adv] was [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was there the evidence of the changed recording on the telephone . |
| 2 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 3 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 4 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 5 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
| 6 | Not only was it the structure of attitudes which concerned these scholars , but also they were interested in the dynamics of attitudinal change . |
| 7 | Nor only was it the ‘ little man ’ who was particularly prone to sexual repression . |
| 8 | Not only was it the case that many projects were already under way before ERDF resources were committed , but also member states were free to add ERDF aid to the national aid for the project ( individual additionality ) or to add such aid to national regional expenditure as a whole ( global additionality ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Not only was he the outstanding leader of our tax practice , ’ said Grant Thornton managing partner David McDonnell , ‘ he was also the architect of its development in the early days . |
| 10 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 11 | So was I. The expectant mother was sixteen years old and one of my students at the school in Barcelona where I was five months into my first teaching job . |
| 12 | There were many more than two hundred behind that large banner , so was it the wisest move ? |
| 13 | As it was the revolt of the Czech Legion on the Trans-Siberian Railway in May 1918 which in a sense signalled the start of the Civil War , so was it the taking of Vladivostok by the Red Army in 1922 , the withdrawal of American and Japanese interventionist forces from the Siberian mainland , and the incorporation of the short-lived far Eastern Republic into the Soviet Union which finally marked its end . |
| 14 | So was he the guy that did everything himself then ? |
| 15 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
| 16 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 17 | supposed to write to somewhere else was it the department of the environment or now what would it be , energy ? |