Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather like saying that French was less logical than Russian . |
| 2 | Such gains were effectively only taxed as and when a UK resident enjoyed a benefit ; hence arose the opportunity for a gross roll-up of gains , followed by the eventual distribution of all gains to a beneficiary on a tax holiday . |
| 3 | Those not engaged in programming , systems or educational work were most frequently design or development engineers in their employer 's specific activity . |
| 4 | He found that open class lexical items were mostly involved in substitution errors , while closed class lexical items were most frequently lost or added . |
| 5 | Sentences containing all four pieces of information from a set were most frequently identified as having been heard before even when they had not , suggesting that the information from a related set of sentences had been integrated into one complex whole which was closest in form to a four-idea sentence . |
| 6 | Fagin inspected the handkerchieves and told the two boys that they were extremely well made and that he was very pleased with their work . |
| 7 | These were extremely well managed and arranged , for Carolan knew his subject , and if his reading of English Political history was weird his enthusiasm for English painting was real . |
| 8 | The days were long since gone when governments were prepared simply to ride out the turbulence of periodic recessions . |
| 9 | The others were long ago tested and found wanting . |
| 10 | With the internationalists McLaren and Robertson also outstanding , Hearts were much better balanced than a Falkirk side which is now paying the penalty for a lack of urgency in defence . |
| 11 | They were all later released after police dropped charges that they illegally imported anabolic steroids into the country . |
| 12 | They were all later released after police dropped charges that they illegally imported anabolic steroids into the country . |
| 13 | Conversely , Home Office guidelines were only exceptionally ignored since ‘ They were seen as having a legitimacy stemming from the fact of representing the authoritative interpretation of the law by the elected government of the day ’ ( ibid.:211 ) . |
| 14 | Before exercise , cGMP concentrations of New York Heart Association ( NYHA ) class I patients were only slightly raised and did not differ significantly from concentrations of healthy controls or patients with non-cardiac diseases . |
| 15 | Hence high contributions were only partially offset because receipts were comparatively low . |
| 16 | But these foreign debts were only intermittently repaid and , as a result , in the 1830s and 1840s Thornton headed the committee of Spanish bond-holders urging British governments to intervene on their behalf . |
| 17 | People were only ever watching when she did something dreadful , never at a moment of triumph . |
| 18 | However Sharda had a close friend who was West Indian and she had discussed with her the reasons why Asian girls were so frequently attacked and bullied : |
| 19 | Scottish villages were so frequently attacked and burned , and were so lacking in adequate fortified protection , that farmers and small gentry could survive only by building stone tower houses with barmkins , or walled enclosures . |
| 20 | But I have had patients who were so badly affected that they could not travel in any enclosed vehicle — car , bus or train — had to leave the bathroom door open while they bathed , could not enter a cinema , theatre or even a small local shop . |
| 21 | Next day in a further raid on this airfield another Beaufighter was to be slightly damaged , as was a Maryland , while a Wellington and a Blenheim were so badly hit that they had to be written off . |
| 22 | Widely commended for its environmental stance in Europe , the same standards have not been applied in the company 's operations in Ecuador , where roads were driven into virgin forests , rivers were so badly polluted that they caught fire , fish were dynamited and local people forced off their lands . |
| 23 | Most of them were so badly damaged that they sank or were forced to withdraw as shell splinters cut their steering lines and tracer set fire to fuel tanks , but they gave a good account of themselves because the port was defended by well-sited , quick-firing guns used for anti-aircraft or anti-ship fire . |
| 24 | In this short speech , I wish to think for a moment about all the youngsters who were so badly damaged and hurt by that evil man . |
| 25 | The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended . |
| 26 | I then slightly rocked the chair and my fingers were so badly crushed that , a few weeks later , my blackened finger nails fell out . |
| 27 | What made matters worse was that the police were so badly paid that they could be recruited only from poor , country districts and lacked the sophistication , education and even , Mahmoud suspected at times , mother-wit of city people . |
| 28 | Once distant from the history , it is difficult to envisage just how powerful that central imperative was and how often the options available were so narrowly restricted as to exclude most of what the party was supposed to stand for . |
| 29 | Suppose nevertheless that one party were so ill advised as to field candidates who would openly compete with each other in political terms . |
| 30 | The two cardinals were so loudly applauded that it was clear they represented the wishes of the majority . |