Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these were rarely as vehement or focused as those of their Phase 3 colleagues . ) |
| 2 | In the shops things were much as usual because wholesalers and suppliers were still using existing stocks . |
| 3 | The odds against him were all but unimaginable . |
| 4 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 5 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 6 | He caught a good couple of pounds of roach on ledgered casters from bites that were all but invisible . |
| 7 | The shutters were all but useless . |
| 8 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 9 | But he drew the line at including gurls , because gurls were less than zero — J M Barrie had the right idea there . |
| 10 | There were less than twelve hours before the big day , my first day at Debenham High School . |
| 11 | Observations reported by Davies quoted in Laws and Dennison ( 1990:275 ) showed that " on average 60% of all activities were less than nine minutes in duration , while only 7% lasted beyond an hour " . |
| 12 | Credit sale was exempt if there were less than five instalments , and was generally subject to less regulation . |
| 13 | Only 7 per cent of machine tools were less than five years old , and under one-third less than ten . |
| 14 | Estimates of total enrolment vary , but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800 . |
| 15 | Secondly , HRP is only available for complete tax years in which earnings were less than 52 times the lower earnings limit . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding the reservations of Glynn and Oxborrow it is clear that population growth rates were less than one third of their nineteenth century peaks and the fact is that there was a substantial loss of population from the old industrial areas to the new ones . |
| 17 | The two boats were less than one hundred yards away from each other now . |
| 18 | Trent believed that they were less than two miles from the river mouth . |
| 19 | The two were less than two centuries apart , but it brings back to mind Flecker 's verses To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence , which ends : |
| 20 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |
| 21 | The German trenches were less than two hundred yards ahead , with our front trench only a hundred yards from theirs . |
| 22 | When expected cell frequencies were less than 5 Fisher 's exact test was used . |
| 23 | But they were less than competent in certain areas . |
| 24 | Mr Rajat Goswamy , who is a consultant gynaecologist at St Thomas 's Hospital , comments , ‘ I have used it successfully on 20 women , all of who were less than eight weeks into pregnancy . |
| 25 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 26 | By the time I realized this we were less than twenty yards apart . |
| 27 | Fifteen of the sporadic adenomas were less than 2 cm in size , 16 were greater than or equal to 2 cm in size , and seven had undergone focal malignant transformation , characterised by invasion of neoplastic epithelium through the muscularis mucosae . |
| 28 | By 1939 , one-third of all British houses were less than 20 years old . |
| 29 | Despite his magnetic personality and his enormous popularity the PNI was slow to win members : one calculation is that by September 1929 there were less than 6000 . |
| 30 | There were less than three minutes to go and referee Brian Hill decided to call a halt — with a little help from Wilkins . |