Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he knew he would not see them here — they were much further north and anyway he would know he was near them when the crows gave way to a different more sinister corvid-the hooded crows , the vicious crows whose kind had once nearly succeeded in killing Minch when she was trapped near Callanish . |
| 2 | The other three aims were much further west and were determined by geography . |
| 3 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 4 | Moreover , TV and radio were not primarily news media , judged simply by the proportions of their output . |
| 5 | That wretched obsession with time which was a hallmark of my own age had not yet set in ; there were not even railway timetables to make people conform to the clock . |
| 6 | These intermedii with their mixture of styles and resources , differing from earlier sixteenth-century dramatic or festive ones only in their lavishness , were not yet opera but they were the most important harbinger of opera , which just because of that mixture was gradually to supplant church music as the very heart of European music and hence establish Italian pre-eminence throughout the continent . |
| 7 | Dworkin himself suggests that no one has an individual right to have enforced all the laws of the nation , only those which he would have a right to have enacted if they were not already law . |
| 8 | This suggests that the constant complaints of their social superiors , that the poor 's expenditure was irrationally related to their incomes , were not simply class prejudice . |
| 9 | It was a reminder that the Quantocks were not merely nature 's beautiful and benevolent face , but the setting also of great tragedy , where the extremes of human emotion found expression in the humblest lives . |
| 10 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 11 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 12 | Jacques 's flute method , compositions and instrument were not only characteristic of the early Baroque flute but elegantly expressed its aesthetic virtually to perfection . |
| 13 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 14 | Here were not only class tensions and antagonisms but also the yearning — ‘ that united wail ’ — for a different form of social relations which would link all women . |
| 15 | Lindsey argued that the tax cuts were not only incentive creating but they also increased the cost of tax avoidance . |
| 16 | He grew , however , to see that many of the new movements were not seriously deviationist or dissident . |
| 17 | Attitudes to parents , school and the police were not specifically skinhead , but like that of other working class youth . |
| 18 | As there were not enough metre sticks to go round , I gave out matchsticks to represent the fences . |
| 19 | His hands were not quite skin and not quite plumage … |
| 20 | Their eyes were ancient , filled with the wisdom of their long lives , and their shapes were not quite Tree and not quite Human , but a blend of the two . |
| 21 | They were just really attic rooms , that we used . |
| 22 | I think they 'd always sort of wanted to go and explore , yes , and it seemed the ideal time , the boys were just about school age , erm , sort of you could well . |
| 23 | down , along all Anyway , it was on the bend , and he just waved me they were still there lunchtime |
| 24 | They were still only man to man , and there was still quietness as soon as they were quiet . |
| 25 | The peaty lowlands were still mainly marshland . |
| 26 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 27 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 28 | They were also mainly peasant economies , but they had a significant number of industrial enterprises ( many of which were the ancestors of today 's ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ) . |
| 29 | The rooms were probably once Templar cells but now they were luxuriously furnished . |
| 30 | For instance , Local Peasant Leaders or Mayors ( who were often also Party functionaries ) had to adjudicate on the ‘ reserved occupation ’ applications of farmers in the neighbourhood . |