Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wont Be Gone Long was making a belated seasonal reappearance due to a nasty cut on a hind leg , but now fully recovered , he loves this fast ground and obviously jumps for fun . |
| 2 | For since , just as in any conventionally organised manufacturing enterprise , capital employed labour , its first priority naturally and necessarily was to secure a sufficient return for the investors on their investment . |
| 3 | The rocket motors were closer to the centre of the hole than the rest of the craft ( it was falling in backwards , remember ) so was experiencing a stronger gravitational pull than the rest of the craft . |
| 4 | To offer the best was to set a general standard and to create a wider public expectation . |
| 5 | Although headhunting generally was gaining a professional reputation , he continued , in London especially the business was still seen as ‘ rather dodgy ’ . |
| 6 | Evidently Edward 's purpose now was to inflict a final blow on the Valois monarchy by marching to Rheims and having himself crowned Ring of France . |
| 7 | However , the planning permission here was to operate a commercial port in a precisely delineated area . |
| 8 | The edition of his book I quote from here was published a hundred years ago in 1891 . |
| 9 | The principal task initially was to create a wider range of accommodation services . |
| 10 | Someone there was having a heated argument with an official , who then called the guard to deal with the matter . |
| 11 | SAVE therefore decided the only way forward was to establish a new independent trust to take on the task of urgent major repairs . |
| 12 | However , almost nothing else was considered a taboo subject . |
| 13 | And before very long , by quite different means , Paris too was to enjoy a public opera . |
| 14 | The tendency in the Council therefore was to seek a sufficient measure of ‘ self-validation ’ to enable institutional progress to be made , but to marry it with the protection of the external validation system which appeared to be the best defence of hard-won standards . |