Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeks later , half were downstairs for the more tuneful brew mixed up by various members of the Flying DJ family . |
| 2 | Even so , as Arnold Freeman argued in Boy Life and Labour ( 1914 ) if it were not for the admittedly frail system of compulsory schooling , ‘ we should be manufacturing a race of hooligans who would make our existing civilisation an impossibility ’ . |
| 3 | His dealer , Zborowski , found to his chagrin that the rich pleasure-seekers in the south of France were not in the least interested in buying modern paintings . |
| 4 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 5 | For three-quarters of a century from the 1650s successive holders of this post , John de Witt , Gaspar Fagel and Anthonie Heinsius , acted in effect as foreign ministers , and were thus among the most important figures on the European political stage . |
| 6 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |
| 7 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 8 | The Friend is like the phoenix , yet without the life-giving or self-sacrificing qualities of that mythical creature : Again , ‘ thou consum'st thy self in single life ’ : for Shakespeare images of self-division were always among the most potent signs of disorder . |
| 9 | Asked to make the empty tree so it had less , children again added apples until there were more on the originally empty tree . |
| 10 | The whole burden of these cuts fell on the colleges of education partly because , as we have seen , their numbers could be swiftly regulated and partly because they were still for the most part institutions predominantly concerned with teacher education . |
| 11 | By the early seventeenth century , therefore , foreign offices , in so far as they existed , were still for the most part embryonic . |
| 12 | The firearms receipts were probably of the most use to him , and the guarantee cards all carried the purchaser 's signature , Ian P. Sampson in a leaning scrawl that should n't be too hard to imitate . |
| 13 | The health service residents were originally in the now closed St John 's Hospital where they lived in wards with up to twenty people . |
| 14 | They were now at the most vulnerable stage of the mission . |
| 15 | ‘ You shall have both , ’ he promised , and within a very short time they were back in the blissfully cool hotel . |
| 16 | Those who were lucky enough to see these two players in the same Palace team for four and a half seasons were certainly among the most privileged of the club 's patrons . |
| 17 | They were therefore under the most powerful compulsion to adapt their ideas and tailor their programmes to ensure that they had mass appeal . |
| 18 | When he did speak , it was mostly of the very distant past , remembering his brothers as boys . |
| 19 | And erm the er the first class was right at the very far end of the corridor . |
| 20 | Production in 1974 was down from the immediately post-war total of 600 000 tons to just over one sixth that figure . |
| 21 | And , of course , the stables , that was all it , flattened down like , but that was only at the most twenty yards from the house . |
| 22 | The three others rose to leave and it was only at the very last moment that he added , almost casually : ‘ What message were you supposed to phone to the American Consulate ? ’ |
| 23 | It was only in the more enlightened judgments that it was held that resistance was unnecessary where the complainant was overcome by fear . |
| 24 | Or if a Form knitter found that the pattern was only in the fully written version , with no Form program . |
| 25 | The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs . |
| 26 | Indeed , the old common law was not in the least interested in how the police got their evidence ; all that mattered was its probative value . |
| 27 | Mary was not in the least surprised . |
| 28 | Something was wrong she knew though she could not have said what it was and she was not in the least surprised when he made some excuse about being a bit busy next week and unable to see her . |
| 29 | But the young doctor was not in the least disconcerted . |
| 30 | Sir Alexander Seton was not in the least upset about being transferred down to the town . |