Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be all right if God was there . |
| 2 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 3 | Coleridge was the first to recognize that ‘ Freshmen always begin very furiously ’ ; but so long as Middleton was at hand to guide and encourage , he overcame the weakness of will and habit of procrastination which were always ready to disable him . |
| 4 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
| 5 | The man spun round so swiftly that George was taken aback and tripped , falling onto the soft mud . |
| 6 | In the second half , the silence was golden , but the ears of the referee and the Darlington keeper were ringing loud enough when Hereford were denied a winner . |
| 7 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 8 | In fact time went so quickly that Shelley was surprised when the crowded room fell silent , and the sound of the church clock in the square drifted through the little café . |
| 9 | 228 looked better when three West Indian wickets went for 51 and better still when Richards was caught . |
| 10 | ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered . |
| 11 | His condition deteriorated so rapidly that Brian was unable to reach his father 's bedside in New York before he died . |
| 12 | She walked from the herb garden so rapidly that Meryl was unable to utter another word . |
| 13 | ‘ I wonder , ’ said Ian and laughed so genuinely that Julia was reassured . |
| 14 | Brown claimed it was himself and not Nicholas who was guilty of the assault adding somewhat implausibly that Charlie was ‘ pure as the driven snow ’ . |
| 15 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
| 16 | The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned . |
| 17 | My objections were originally on the grounds of freedom , rather than efficiency , although in the event , so far as Britain was concerned , socialism led more to stagnation than to tyranny . |
| 18 | Later he moved over and took his seat in Parliament , where he was able to exploit even grander notions , that public transport be nationalized and another Bill was placed before Parliament , with this in mind , at least in so far as London was concerned . |
| 19 | By December 1940 the news from the African front was very bad so far as Italy was concerned . |
| 20 | However , the most striking feature of the reforms resulting from the Maud Report , so far as England was concerned , was the institution of ‘ metropolitan counties ’ in the most heavily urbanised areas of that country . |
| 21 | He seems to have recognized — at least he did not dissent from the view — that so far as England was concerned , the choice lay with the king . |
| 22 | Beyond the immediate circumstances of this case , Anselm rejected , so far as England was concerned , the recent papal practice of entrusting to specially appointed legates large areas within which they had authority over all archbishops and bishops . |
| 23 | So far as Rome was concerned , they were , of course , rebellious outlaws , to be hounded , harried and ruthlessly extirpated . |
| 24 | In so far as Japan was concerned , it was apparent that all profits made from their ‘ British ’ made products went back to Japan to boost their economy and to further their influence into the European markets . |
| 25 | It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned . |
| 26 | In so far as Bukharin was discussing the relationship between society and nature he focused his attention almost wholly upon the material aspects of the exchanges . |
| 27 | So far as Dicey was concerned Parliamentary sovereignty was ‘ a legal fact ’ and his purpose was to demonstrate that ‘ Parliament does constitute such a supreme legislative authority or sovereign power as , according to Austin and other jurists , must exist in every civilised state . ’ |
| 28 | It would not be the end of France 's participation in the alliance — although privately de Gaulle toyed with that step — but the end , so far as France was concerned , of participation in the structures and institutions of NATO . |
| 29 | She had no living relatives and , so far as Celia was aware , none of her friendships had survived her arrest . |
| 30 | So far as Andrew was able to think beyond himself , Nicandra 's beauty overpowered him . |