Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed again , however , that although a specialized function might well exist , many small towns ultimately came to possess a range of functions , not least those which were most conveniently placed to exploit their full urban potential . |
| 2 | Once established , however , this function is likely to have assumed an over-riding importance at those towns which were most suitably placed to exploit its potential . |
| 3 | Hardly any have unmarried daughters , who in the past were most often expected to do the caring . |
| 4 | The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility . |
| 5 | The customs establishment was one of the more extensive branches of the eighteenth-century bureaucracy , and the fact that its officers were necessarily widely dispersed enhanced the attraction of the service for freeholders , burgh councillors and their friends , for an appointment in their home district was not an unreasonable objective . |
| 6 | The wounds Giles had inflicted were only just beginning to heal . |
| 7 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 8 | " We were only just beginning to listen to Bach " , said one Iranian businessman . |
| 9 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 10 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 11 | All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon . |
| 12 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 13 | Similarly , few word processing packages can accurately hyphenate and justify text that is proportionally spaced as they were only ever designed to handle monospaced characters . |
| 14 | There was nothing explaining the makeup of the organisation which all of us were so desperately trying to join . |
| 15 | The fact that these pairs were so assiduously taught seems to suggest that they are not innate . |
| 16 | While most eighteenth-century beaux were obviously not disposed to live within their income and affected a bland indifference to the need to manage their personal finances , the tradesmen , the creditors on whose forbearance their insouciance depended , were campaigning against any legislation which seemed to reduce any further the chances of recovering what was owed them . |
| 17 | The patients here were obviously not allowed to feel that nobody cared about them . |
| 18 | Compared with the previous county elections in 1989 , the Liberal Democrats ' vote rose most in the south of England — where they were generally better placed to win seats . |
| 19 | For these reasons Magharba and Zuwaya who were not tribally minded stayed away : voters who regarded themselves as modernizing were silent , and the turn-out was somewhat lower than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 20 | Prisoners were not normally allowed to visit the library to choose their own books . |
| 21 | They announced they were not even prepared to come in and talk . |
| 22 | It soon became evident that nothing of the kind was forthcoming : the racist strictures of the War Office prevented promotional possibilities , blacks were not even allowed to join in combat with the enemy . |
| 23 | They were not even allowed to take such belongings as they had — pots and stools and the like . |
| 24 | Tourists and journalists , including , to their chagrin , the three American network , were detained in a hotel on the airport road and were not even allowed to watch the cars pass by . |
| 25 | Citizens were not even allowed to sing the Marseillaise for themselves . |
| 26 | In Orkney not only did the parents not see or have any access to their children , they were not even allowed to communicate by letter or telephone . |
| 27 | They were not even allowed to attempt to grow things in tubs in their black area , for reasons vague but peremptory , put forward by their landlady , an octogenarian Mrs Irving , who inhabited the three floors above them in a rank civet fug amongst unnumbered cats , and who kept the garden as bright and wholesome and well-ordered as her living-room was sparse and decomposing . |
| 28 | Since that time , it has become steadily more unbreakable , to the point where the courts were not even allowed to consider reports , written by Commissioners , on which legislation was based . |
| 29 | He saw the Labour Party 's position as a difficult one , and began his conversation with Stamfordham by saying rather patronisingly that in MacDonald 's position , he , Asquith , would decline office ‘ on the grounds that he and his Party were not yet fit to undertake the responsibility ’ . |
| 30 | When they were not otherwise engaged performing Parsifal in the pit , Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony Orchestra were performing a programme of Chopin 's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky 's Fifth Symphony at their home , Jones Hall . |