Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the planned job cuts did not affect RMT members and the pay cuts were effectively only a withdrawal of overtime . |
| 2 | Police and government officials have said the Bombay explosions were most probably the work of an overseas group operating in tandem with local criminals and drug smugglers . |
| 3 | Bishoprics were most commonly the reward for service to one or other important secular potentate . |
| 4 | It was now quite clear that barrage balloons were much more a hindrance than a help to London . |
| 5 | Of young women 66 per cent thought Britain was heading in the wrong direction , and that major changes were needed , and only 28 per cent felt things were all right the way they were . |
| 6 | Those activities were so evidently a waste of spirit that Louisa had never understood how men were so easily lured by them . |
| 7 | As for my eidetic happenings , I found them suspect as well ; they were so clearly a product of my own fervid visual imagination . |
| 8 | Street-fighting and village brawls at football matches were so much a part of ‘ traditional ’ society that we tend to forget how relatively civilized modern social life has become . |
| 9 | It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war . |
| 10 | The lulling cushion of blood-heat saline solution I floated on did help me to neglect those bodily fears that were so much a part of me . |
| 11 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 12 | People thronged in the several outdoor cafés , while others sat in groups on the paving stones , enjoying the music , cans of Coke at their feet , slices of smørrebrød in their hands , while neatly stacked against the railings of the old houses with their terracotta- and gamboge-painted façades were the ubiquitous bicycles which were so much a part of the Danish travel scene . |
| 13 | Canal tours , blue-and-white china , narrow streets — if it were not also a university town it would be merely beautiful . |
| 14 | At this meeting there is considerable scope for adjustment , but the process would clearly fail if there were not also an understanding of the need for a consensual solution to emerge , and within a very tight timescale . |
| 15 | Seldes marvellously captured the great down-town appeal of the movies when he spoke of the irresistible lure of ‘ the tinkle of a tinny piano playing a ragtime ’ which floated ‘ to the street from a darkened doorway ’ but the point about the movies was that they were not just a city or down-town phenomenon , they were everywhere . |
| 16 | Steve Knight , of Railnews , who proposed the motion , said consultants were not just a waste of money , but also a waste of time , a waste of resources and a drain on the whole of British industry . |
| 17 | Such activities were not just a waste of time which could be more usefully passed making profits for capitalists . |
| 18 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |
| 19 | It is well established that any Palestinian delegates must be acceptable to all parties : if this were not already the case , the Palestinian delegation would be made up of PLO members . |
| 20 | These developments were not simply a confrontation between Britain and Europe . |
| 21 | The tensions were bound to create difficulties , which came to the fore as national problems of economic management became clearer , even if they were not simply the consequence of those problems ( Rhodes , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 23 | ( as if such undesirables were not precisely the sort of candidates all too often put up by parties and elected by voters in both British and Irish constituencies ! ) |
| 24 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |
| 25 | If this were not so the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 26 | They were not then a class which had consolidated its position through marriage and inheritance : the combination of their own practice and of national policy made it unlikely that they would ever be able to do so . |
| 27 | Now Naughtie told her : ‘ You were not only the belle of the ball , but the star of the show . |
| 28 | Almost immediately , the Ladies ' Association issued a strongly worded protest in The Daily News , signed by prominent figures like Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale , claiming that the acts were not only an attack on the civil liberties of all women but also implicated the state in sanctioning male vice . |
| 29 | The Ranger series of spacecraft for impacting the Moon were not entirely a success story ; but the soft landing Surveyors , which followed them , were . |
| 30 | Hard conditions were not necessarily a bar to enjoying hostel life as Martha Levy discovered : |