Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lincolns played an integral part in the overall harassment of the communist offensive campaign and were effectively the only permanent heavy bomber unit in Malaya . |
| 2 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 3 | These were not the short-legged all-white animals that Buddie kept in his pigsties over by the disused cinder-heap . |
| 4 | Civil wars were not the only destructive forces in the Merovingian kingdoms . |
| 5 | The translations were not the only technical difficulty : there were only two shorthand writers in the court and they were hard pressed to keep up with the proceedings , causing the court to be adjourned more than once so that they could transcribe their notes . |
| 6 | Travel and practical experience abroad were not the only possible ways of preparing for a career in diplomacy . |
| 7 | Furthermore , rats were not the only artificial animals used . |
| 8 | Tea and coffee were not the only important export crops . |
| 9 | Those who benefited from improved earnings , however , were not the rural poor , but the farmers who were able to take advantage of the opportunities the Green Revolution had to offer . |
| 10 | Clear words were a matter of practical rather than juridical significance ; they were not the essential constitutive element in trusts but invaluable evidence as to the intentions at law of the settlor . |
| 11 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 12 | The two key areas were final acceptance of the European monetary union agreement and the Government 's resistance to many of the suggestions in the social programme of the additional treaty — those were not the original social suggestions in the social action programme . |
| 13 | The hospitals more remote from their catchment area were thus the natural early candidates for closure . |
| 14 | she and I were always the last two |
| 15 | And for apres-apres-ski there were always the lovely blonde women flown in from Madam Claudes famous establishment in Paris . |
| 16 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |
| 17 | It was still very difficult to see how the process might work , or to account for the fact that some ads worked , and some consumers took action , but others stubbornly did not ; or that an apparently good campaign failed to achieve extra sales — for sales were still the only real measure of effectiveness . |
| 18 | In terms of total expenditure of time , instructional and general care and supervisory activities were clearly the two main duties . |
| 19 | These were also the only LMSR-built coaches to be constructed with drop head buffers , buckeye couplers and Pullman type gangways . |
| 20 | I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air . |
| 21 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |
| 22 | In post-Roman times , reoccupied hillforts and hilltops were probably the focal administrative points for their regions , and by late Saxon times royal palaces such as Cheddar , Yeavering , and the newly-discovered site at Malmesbury were important royal centres , as were the old established monasteries . |
| 23 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 24 | The mother 's behaviour was often related to how the child had behaved , but there were long aggressive interchanges which were often the only predictable interaction that the mother and child demonstrated ( Wahler et al . |
| 25 | The squalor was still there , but with East London there were now the old industrial towns of the North . |
| 26 | But they were n't the same superior quality as those Mr Watson Taylor brought because they wore out . |
| 27 | There were even the familiar masculine responses when the machines broke down . |
| 28 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 29 | With a squeal , a scantily clad girl whose eyes were twice the normal human size scampered out , to be caught by one of those guards and led away . |
| 30 | We were then the greatest industrial nation on earth . |