Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific cash crops were profitable only in certain districts . |
| 2 | Victorine and the others were interested solely in what she claimed to have seen . |
| 3 | Sometimes she wished a burglar would come and take them away , but the burglars were interested only in electrical equipment , credit cards and cash . |
| 4 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 5 | Some of the media were interested only in portraying a violent image of Blackbird Leys . |
| 6 | On neither occasion were the media at all interested in covering the good news ; they were interested only in hyping up the bad news . |
| 7 | The French , for their part , were interested only in American help to achieve some honourable compromise in Indo-China , whereas the militants in Washington were looking for combined military action to inflict a decisive defeat on the communists . |
| 8 | Mr Vincent said that Medway Ports were interested only in new freight customers , now using English ports , for Rosyth . |
| 9 | Well , you were interested enough in that were n't you ? |
| 10 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 11 | The gnarled shapes were unmistakable even in semi-darkness . |
| 12 | Perhaps just one more éclair — God , they were minute enough in all conscience . |
| 13 | The P-51s and P-47s in Japan were being replaced by jets ; these might be obsolescent viewed from the highest standards but they were acceptable enough in Korea . |
| 14 | His intentions were clear enough in his own mind , but it was decidedly difficult to make a beginning , particularly when Dimity was so busy . |
| 15 | The evening arrived ; the soup was served , and the bowls were empty again in a few seconds . |
| 16 | Golf away-days were popular even in the 1930's . |
| 17 | Mr Moseley said there were examples of planning committee decisions to flout development guidelines for houses in the countryside which were unexplained fully in official records . |
| 18 | But they were similar enough in method and assumption to suggest possible cross-fertilization . |
| 19 | Er , and all in all , it was quite er it 's quite it was quite an experience , er er to have seen er this this er this police er er baton charge , er and er we were fortunate enough in in being able to get out of the way . |
| 20 | There were other places that they loved which were accessible only in the summer . |
| 21 | Lights were visible now in sundry windows , but that was as far as reactions seemed to go . |
| 22 | The idea that mind and body were separate yet in some sense connected has dominated European thought . |
| 23 | Although conservatives believed that juries were appropriate only in societies whose population had already achieved a degree of sophistication , reformers argued that they could promote the social responsibility from which they were supposed to emerge . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly there were men who made substantial fortunes , but there is not sufficient evidence to say whether they were exceptional merely in the scale of their gains or because they contrived to prosper when others failed . |
| 25 | The burst of growth and prosperity in America after 1945 had social consequences that were unprecedented anywhere in the world . |
| 26 | The steps taken to field a team who would maintain the Premier Division side 's place at the top of Group A in the European Champions League were costly only in terms of the gamble that |
| 27 | There had been military expeditions to establish English authority in Wales in 1277 and to maintain it there in 1282–3 and again in 1287 , and these were costly enough in their way , but they paled in comparison with the activity and demands of the 1290s . |
| 28 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 29 | Yet throughout these eventful years the tradition of Catholic imitative polyphony flowed on undisturbed , reaching even greater technical equability in the work of Josquin 's presumed pupil Nicolas Gombert ( c. 1500–c. 1556 ) and Jacobus Clemens ‘ non Papa' ( c. 1510–c. 1557 ) , with whom we may associate other natives of French Flanders : Thomas Crecquillon ( d.c. 1557 ) ; Jean Richafort ( c. 1480–c. 1547 ) , an older pupil of Josquin 's ; two composers whose identities were confused even in their lifetime , Lupus Hellinck ( c. 1495–1541 ) and Johannes Lupus or Lupi ( Jean Leleu ) ( c. 1506–1539 ) , the confusion being worse confounded by two less distinguished contemporaries named Johannes Lupus ; Noel Bauldewyn ( d. 1530 ) , who was Richafort 's successor at Malines Cathedral and composer of the Missa Da Pacem long attributed to Josquin ; 3 and Pierre de Manchicourt ( c. 1510–1564 ) who towards the end of his life became master of Philip II 's capilla flamenca , in which both Gombert and Crecquillon had served under Philip 's father , the Emperor Charles V. |
| 30 | Taylor supposed originally that slip in ductile crystals was due entirely to those dislocations which were present initially in the crystal due to the accidents of imperfect growth . |