Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those incredible eyes were extremely prominent too in the bright sunlight . |
| 2 | You could n't begin to compare a father like hers , who was n't there and whose face and voice were so vague now in your memory that you' d almost forgotten them , with a father like Simon 's who had such a powerful physical presence . |
| 3 | as if that quest were not macabre enough in itself , I went as if under some sort of malediction . |
| 4 | People were largely interested only in the Wehrmacht and ‘ how things were out there ’ at the Front . |
| 5 | Thus by March 1947 , when the foreign ministers of the occupation powers met in Moscow to discuss a German peace treaty , the Anglo — Americans and Russia were already far apart in their German policies . |
| 6 | And , while Emma and Sophie were still happy here in London , she had no alternative but to try and endure the venomous pin-pricks of her elderly mother-in-law . |
| 7 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 8 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 9 | ‘ They were n't impressive either in their 2–0 win at Ards last week . |
| 10 | Students at London University were almost unanimous today in saying a couple going to bed together did n't necessarily mean the woman consents to sex . |
| 11 | For a time , like Dona and the Frenchman , Vronsky and Anna were very happy together in love ; but because of their circumstances their relations became more strained . |
| 12 | He was most likely still in the wood . |
| 13 | He was highly successful both in negotiating behind the scenes with the Post Office and in informing and interesting listeners in the implications for them , which included alternative programmes , of developing communications technology . |
| 14 | He was obviously well-known here in Dublin . |
| 15 | Jonathan Williams was critically ill yesterday in hospital . |
| 16 | Their displacement was not however immediately perceptible even to a writer like Disraeli , who was critically interested both in the architecture and in the social function of great houses . |
| 17 | Gouldner was just three-quarters right in describing it as a culture of critical discourse ; for it is essentially a culture of self-critical discourse . |
| 18 | Realising that I was piqued by the recognition that I was not singular even in what I had considered an inadequacy , I convicted myself of lack of humility . |
| 19 | One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first . |
| 20 | I think that B eight was not upper most in the department 's mind when it was making its er views known about a major exceptions policy . |
| 21 | He was not interested yet in the dead , who would have to be cleared and identified later . |
| 22 | He felt that MacArthur was not interested now in a peace conference actually meeting but rather of putting forward the proposal in order for the Soviet Union to reject it . |
| 23 | The idea that an economic imperative justified the large-scale demolition of people 's homes was not unknown elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( or the West ) . |
| 24 | Yeah Di Diane was off sick earlier in the week so |
| 25 | Smiling as she surveyed the posters on the walls of the twins ' bedroom — obviously Peter Rabbit was still popular here in New York ! — she moved on to the much larger main bedroom . |
| 26 | It was imaginatively true also in commerce and industry , in religious and intellectual life , and in the arts . |
| 27 | It is interesting to observe that private capital was more significant both in absolute terms and in relative importance at these provincial levels than in the great urban centres in 1922 . |
| 28 | Free duodenogastro bile reflux was seen in two cases , but the pylorus was deformed in all 21 and was wide open constantly in 16 . |
| 29 | It was nearly two o'clock in the morning . |
| 30 | It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning ! |