Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Startling evidence that the National Health Service cancer screening programme does n't go far enough was revealed last November , with the release of shock figures from Action Cancer in Belfast . |
| 2 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 3 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 4 | No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money . |
| 5 | Xenly was becoming greedy for food . |
| 6 | By 1937 Pett 's Wood alone was issuing 320,000 tickets a year . |
| 7 | Lothar , the moment Pippin had joined him , flung down the gauntlet : he alone was to have imperial power , he said , and the interests of his brothers no longer mattered to him . |
| 8 | Thus was begun another chapter in the extraordinary history of St Clement Danes — a history that goes back until the time of King Arthur , who expelled the Danes from the city of London but allowed those with English wives to settle just outside the city walls . |
| 9 | He was lost , only the memory of the baby he no longer was having any reality in her mind . |
| 10 | Leopold meanwhile was becoming anxious . |
| 11 | The major task tonight was congratulating three dogs which had outshone all others during the year in areas of saving lives , devotion to duty and pet of the year . |
| 12 | Frying Tonight was written 20 years ago by Gerald Priestland , known better as a BBC foreign correspondent , and draws extensively on trade Press columnists like ‘ Anchovy Sauce , ’ ‘ Dorsal Fin ’ and the wonderfully named Molly Codling . |
| 13 | The need for low cost housing in East Cleveland generally was highlighted this week with the publication of the results of a housing needs survey . |
| 14 | However , at this point , the proposal that a computer index could be developed to improve the management of filing systems generally was considered worthwhile , and this became the focus of the early part of the study . |
| 15 | The government would surely have wanted to know who exactly was to own one of Britain 's best-known companies . |
| 16 | Although physics was concerned with general theory at that time the trend elsewhere was to emphasize detailed investigations and to avoid general theories . |
| 17 | Each replied that he did not wish to see him without consulting his solicitor as the depositions had been taken and it was understood that nothing further was required other than a date to be set for the trial . |
| 18 | I said to her my daughter was once was wished Happy Birthday |
| 19 | Political change nationally was to make certain things possible , and town planning found itself elevated to a new position of responsibility with regard to city reconstruction . |
| 20 | That the word is intended pejoratively was made clear in a 1987 BBC radio documentary on Karajan entitled ‘ The Price of Perfection ’ . |
| 21 | No it 's Tracy was telling David , and David said David was saying same thing , David wants to well like was saying this morning to Neil , we 'll have to get a meeting up a go . |
| 22 | She also was looking brave at the prospect of three weeks in the summer without their regular Thursday table at the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ near his office in the City . |
| 23 | Sadly , the dear little chapel also was demolished some years ago , and the demise of the railway took place about 30 years ago . |
| 24 | The Roman general Flamininus , who proclaimed the freedom of Greece from Macedonian rule in the stadium at Isthmia ( near Corinth ) in 196 BC. was portrayed bearded . |
| 25 | Mr Shiratori rose rapidly through the ranks : in 1971 he joined AA 's worldwide partnership and three years later was made managing partner of the Japanese operations . |
| 26 | Having switched to engineering , he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director . |
| 27 | The intention clearly was to make sure that guidelines developed reflected enterprising classroom practice . |
| 28 | Rec , erm the lady behind was stating that recent a , I mean recently I had about , er went through a bereavement , lost |
| 29 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) . |