Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not only was there the evidence of the changed recording on the telephone . |
2 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
3 | Not only was it the case that many projects were already under way before ERDF resources were committed , but also member states were free to add ERDF aid to the national aid for the project ( individual additionality ) or to add such aid to national regional expenditure as a whole ( global additionality ) . |
4 | Not only was it the structure of attitudes which concerned these scholars , but also they were interested in the dynamics of attitudinal change . |
5 | As it was the revolt of the Czech Legion on the Trans-Siberian Railway in May 1918 which in a sense signalled the start of the Civil War , so was it the taking of Vladivostok by the Red Army in 1922 , the withdrawal of American and Japanese interventionist forces from the Siberian mainland , and the incorporation of the short-lived far Eastern Republic into the Soviet Union which finally marked its end . |
6 | So was he the guy that did everything himself then ? |
7 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
8 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
9 | supposed to write to somewhere else was it the department of the environment or now what would it be , energy ? |
10 | Mr were you actually were you the cover man ? |