Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After the revolution , those authors who were not simply names to fill space on the badly produced jacket were usually sufficiently embarrassed to try to explain away their participation in the cult of Ceauşescu and thereby in lengthening his rule . |
| 32 | The Germans were not simply going to let us walk in . |
| 33 | He claimed the South African federation were not legitimately entitled to conduct the testing , and they had not been conducted according to DLV rules . |
| 34 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 35 | For the most part , parents mistakenly thought their children were not legally entitled to vote , despite having voting cards , or they judged that their children would not understand what it was all about . |
| 36 | They were not legally entitled to do so as teenagers and various factors may trigger their desire to find their birth parents at this stage . |
| 37 | The hon. Gentleman 's synthetic protestations about unemployment would carry a little more conviction if he were not so determined to advance policies which , by introducing a national statutory minimum wage , by embracing the European Commission 's social action programme and by imposing a jobs tax on employers , would make unemployment far , far higher than it otherwise would be . |
| 38 | Leaders must use sound judgment and , if necessary , part from those who were inclined to involve them in disputes that were not only calculated to bring defeat but to weaken and endanger the position held at the present time " . |
| 39 | In each school the library committee provided a forum in which a wide range of subject teachers were not only permitted to involve themselves , but to some extent obliged to participate in formulating specific curriculum/library plans . |
| 40 | Labov 's quantitative methods ( and his interpretation of results ) were not originally motivated to provide a statement of the relationship between linguistic structure and social structure . |
| 41 | Did n't you know that these were not originally invented to wind yarn on to ? |
| 42 | Political parties were not formally authorized to field candidates in small constituencies in local elections . |
| 43 | They were not usually intended to produce a modern type of financial statement and only very rough approximations can be wrung out of them . |
| 44 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 45 | Admittedly the Lord Treasurers were , until the appointment of Paulet in 1552 , unqualified noblemen ; but they were not usually expected to perform any serious duties . |
| 46 | Foster parents were not always equipped to cope with the vagaries of their own children , let alone the problems of outsiders . |
| 47 | We tried to profit by our mistakes but were not always allowed to forget them by fellow crewmates . |
| 48 | Their great unpopularity may have been the consequence of the heavy financial burden they imposed on their employers ; their mere existence is proof that money was circulating fast in western Europe ; but that they were not always paid implies an economy too immature to support them readily . |
| 49 | The threat , however , was apparent from the outset , for Montrose 's enemies the Campbells had been actively attempting to disappoint the duke 's recommendation , and were thus well placed to take full advantage of any subsequent trouble to strengthen Argyll 's following and weaken the interest of the family of Montrose . |
| 50 | As Allen Saddler 's notice so rightly says , many of the Labour MPs who swept to power in 1945 had come through J.P.M. 's schools and were thus well armed to fight for the legislation which so transformed society after the second world war . |
| 51 | For our part , the Government were just not prepared to stand by and see our capital city and its people denied the benefits of this imaginative project . |
| 52 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 53 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 54 | Accordingly there was no consideration for the owner 's agreement to pay the further 10 per cent. , since the yard were already contractually bound to build the ship and it is common ground that the devaluation of the dollar had in no way lessened the yard 's legal obligation to do this . |
| 55 | According to Vasily Kazakov , who led the study , the youngest children affected were contaminated in 1986 even before they were born , when their thyroid glands were already sufficiently developed to absorb radioactive iodine . |
| 56 | Jane Shore , a dancer in the company at that time , remembers it only with amusement : ‘ We were always simply dying to know what rude words they were using . ’ |
| 57 | If we had several surveys at our disposal , and those aged 45 or less were always more prepared to break an unjust law , regardless of when the survey was undertaken , this would be an example of a pure age effect . |
| 58 | POLICE were yesterday still waiting to interview a man who was badly burnt in a fire which swept through his first floor flat in the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 59 | But although Wordsworth contributed a few lines , he quickly realized that attempts at collaboration were once again bound to fail : ‘ … |
| 60 | There was a deepening of the shadows and a swirling of something heavy and turgid and foul , and then the creature was gone and the Workshops were once again lit to crimson and the slaves turned back to their tasks . |