Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Artistically I was certainly the weakest student . |
| 2 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 3 | I had suggested that Longman 's should send it to The Criterion , but obviously I was not the right person to review it . |
| 4 | So I was n't the only duffer around after all . |
| 5 | They all laughed , rather more heartily than the witticism warranted ; so I was not the only one who felt awkward . |
| 6 | So she was n't the sole occupant after all , she thought , amused . |
| 7 | Furthermore there was still the problem " What exactly is |
| 8 | The car was not bought for resale , and the purchase was incidental to the company 's business as a freight forwarder ; it was only the second or third car bought by the company and so there was not the required degree of regularity . |
| 9 | So there was just the two |
| 10 | I still had to do homework when I got back home because nobody knew how quickly the floods would disappear so there was still the possibility of school tomorrow . |
| 11 | More incredible was that all of this violence , all of this blood and gore , all of this inhumanity and human sacrifice was being conducted in the corner of our living rooms , because suddenly it was also the nightly fodder of the television stations , who were only just realizing the potential of on-the-spot coverage of such despicable yet compelling viewing matter . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was just the effect of the tourist season , but Spain seemed very much more prosperous , and the construction companies and property developers had their giant cranes everywhere , their crude colours looming garishly over the old amber-rose stone of the city 's most ancient monuments . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 14 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |
| 15 | Finally the interrogators must have lost their patience , or perhaps it was just the heat of the vodka . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 17 | It was the only horse so far which was the right size and the right shape — or perhaps it was only the spots that detracted from Jazz 's mount . |
| 18 | Even Mister Johnny sat still , as if the story had lulled him , though perhaps it was only the soft sound of Hepzibah 's voice . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was only the effect of the cold , clinging mist but now and again I would catch a sound as if another rider were covertly following our route . |
| 20 | Her agent — perhaps he was n't the best in the world — never got her an American tour which , again , might have made all the difference . |
| 21 | Charles got the impression that perhaps he was n't the first to have followed this particular route . |
| 22 | Obviously it was n't the money that made the difference : what was important was the fact that the wealth opened up all sorts of possibilities to the lucky children that simply were not available to adopted children of poorer parents . |
| 23 | The general opinion was that the court was ‘ vulgar and in bad taste ’ , but interestingly enough it was not the King who was held responsible for this state of affairs . |
| 24 | She had a fever all right — only it was n't the sort any doctor could treat . |
| 25 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 26 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 27 | So it was n't the sexual aspect of Helena 's affair that interested him but its romantic side . |
| 28 | So it was n't the fact that he 'd cut back on government it 's just that the government came , the spending came at a different er point in the , in the political structure . |
| 29 | So it was n't the clutch then ? |
| 30 | So it was n't the kids to read ? |