Example sentences of "[verb] was [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of whether the queen would survive was not the only problem created by James V 's early death . |
| 2 | The measure used was simply the total number of accidents reported at a junction in this period . |
| 3 | What Hope had to bear was exactly the same kind of pressure as other blacks of his generation . |
| 4 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 5 | The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway . |
| 6 | The first that Tarmac knew that the union disapproved was when the present proceedings were commenced . |
| 7 | Gothic he stated was not the national style its exponents claimed , but a foreign importation and as if to counter his own question to Scott , he recited a long list of classical public buildings in Britain and Ireland . |
| 8 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 9 | But the door by which she had entered was not the only way out . |
| 10 | She soothed herself with the thought that the small deception she was about to practise was not the only reason for her attack of nerves : her own college in London , housed in a nondescript modern block , had nothing at all in common with the medieval gateway in front of her . |
| 11 | What mattered was not the territorial integrity of the empire , but the just rights of each member of the family . |
| 12 | The awe I felt was probably the first phase of hero-worship — the sort of thing some people call a crush . |
| 13 | The only time spending on the national health service has been cut was when the Labour party was in power . |
| 14 | ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . ) |
| 15 | She had no idea what to do ; somehow fighting was not the right thing at this moment . |
| 16 | Deciding which manuals to supply was just the first of a chain or decisions . |
| 17 | The last bit we did was only the small numbers . |
| 18 | For what had happened was not the worst , you realized that . |
| 19 | She poked my shoulder for what I gradually comprehended was n't the first time . |
| 20 | Yet in essence what she said was always the same . |
| 21 | Let me add that the Leninist theory of nations on which the USSR ( and Yugoslavia ) was subsequently constructed was essentially the same , though in practice — at least in the USSR — supplemented by the Austro-Marxist system of nationality as an individual choice , which every citizen has the right to make at the age of 16 wherever he or she comes from . |
| 22 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 23 | Despite this it was found that in all three areas of Wales the amount of land owned was almost the same . |
| 24 | The counsel given was probably the best in the circumstances , which was that I should go abroad for a break . |
| 25 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 26 | I 've been in the United States , I 've been in Europe , but the politics and the way people behave was just the same the world over . |
| 27 | The last thing she wanted was even the smallest degree of intimacy in this relationship . |
| 28 | Contrary to press reports , Sunday working was not the central issue in that case . |
| 29 | William Reilly 's efforts to persuade the Administration to agree to sign was reportedly the prime focus of tension between them . |