Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That said , the car felt extremely solid and well screwed together , exterior panel gaps were uniformly narrow and even and all the doors shut with a satisfying ‘ thunk ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We were rather brusque and offhand with her when she came in that first time , ’ Waterman remembered . |
| 3 | Both were intensely nationalistic and neither had any desire to see Japan play an active part in Korea . |
| 4 | Not these tough , heavy , very often butch young women who were incredibly disciplinarian and so uncaring and unbothered . |
| 5 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
| 6 | Yet in the small societies encountered during recent times by ethnologists in territories beyond those directly exploited by modern industrial economies they were predominantly organic and often highly perishable , including such things as furs and bird plumage . |
| 7 | The Inklings , as they liked to call themselves , were more commonly Anglican , but their views were blatantly traditional and unashamedly patriotic and backward-looking . |
| 8 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Ironically , it was here , says Sacks , that he Trotskyists were most active and most effective and their significant increase in strength may at least in part be attributed to a sense of frustration and anger with the ICP who had , willingly or not , abandoned the cause of independence . |
| 10 | The cocktail and long and short evening dresses I saw , were most attractive and cleverly designed . |
| 11 | Dutch radio was coming in good but the commentators were extremely biased and almost wet themselves a few times . |
| 12 | Special mention must also be made of Jane 's children — Katie , Alex and Rory — who were extremely patient and very good companions . |
| 13 | The head thought that many reports were highly descriptive and rather thin on evaluative comment and most of the heads of department I interviewed accepted that there was a tendency for reports to be largely or entirely descriptive : |
| 14 | The memories they described in response to the stimulus were highly specific and no longer consciously recollected ; on experiencing the memory they also relived the feelings they had at the time . |
| 15 | He sent messages en clair which were highly secret and carefully ciphered messages that were of no possible secret value . |
| 16 | Arnulf always considered himself a member of the court , although his services were somewhat sporadic and sometimes unappreciated by the king and his other advisers . |
| 17 | The supervising engineers were naturally unhappy and only his promise to catch up — and his reputation to back such a promise — prevented the companies from operating the clauses that allowed them to take over the work and reassign it . |
| 18 | But the contention was put forward on Mr. Steed 's behalf that , even if the transfer were only voidable and notwithstanding that the building society was not implicated in and had had no notice of the Hammonds ' fraud , nonetheless the court had a discretionary power under section 82 of the Land Registration Act 1925 to order that the building society 's charge be deleted from the register , leaving Mr. Steed with an unencumbered title and the building society to claim an indemnity under section 83 . |
| 19 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 20 | When the southernmost stars also were divided up , the whole situation became somewhat chaotic ; various astronomers invented their own constellations , some of which were so small and so obscure as to be unworthy of separate identity . |
| 21 | ‘ We were so debauched and yet we thought we were hilarious . |
| 22 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |
| 23 | Planners there began to ask why it was that their residential streets were so dull and so unsafe , and why it was impossible to do anything else there except drive cars , even though most of the time there were no moving cars . |
| 24 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 25 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 26 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 27 | No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied . |
| 28 | The Federation was , in any case , the undisputed representative of the Left at the Universities and the Labour Party would have been ill-advised to disaffiliate it while its opinions were so popular and widely accepted . |
| 29 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 30 | Boniface made claims which were so large and so tactless as to produce enemies like dragon 's teeth , and the French king 's own ambitions eventually drove Boniface into Edward 's camp . |