Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We melted away again into the mists and learned to make our way back with unerring accuracy to places that were little more than pinpoints on the map . |
| 2 | Some of these marine stations were little more than dissecting rooms by the sea , but there was increased pressure from governments for scientists to study practical problems such as the effects of over-fishing . |
| 3 | Among the females of Seyfarth 's study those of highest rank were most preferred as grooming partners . |
| 4 | Airily we were told by our controlling officer at Gravesend to investigate on a night patrol , and anyone who knows the maze of creeks and rivers on this part of the coast will realise that the odds were much greater than finding a needle in a haystack . |
| 5 | He said the figures for the business rate were much better as expected with a 94.1 per cent collection rate and end of year shortfall of about £850,000 . |
| 6 | On Jan. 8 the Defence Ministry sought to justify its operation against draft-dodgers by declaring that conscription levels were so low as to threaten national security . |
| 7 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 8 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 9 | It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be . |
| 10 | Perhaps the immediate and justified reaction was that the proposals in the Green Paper were so sketchy as to pose an unenviable choice between ‘ a crude centralist and an equally crude local authority solution ’ . |
| 11 | He and his advisers were so dismayed as to misread the letter , for the reply makes it clear that they understood the meeting of the princes to have taken place already . |
| 12 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 13 | Even if we make the comparison with the earlier part of the twentieth century when people were beginning to live longer , the economic conditions of family life were so different as to make a decision to take an old person into one 's home , if they could not maintain themselves , a very different decision from its equivalent today . |
| 14 | Some of his preferences were so extreme as to appear perverse . |
| 15 | But for the majority , conditions were so atrocious as to justify Dostoevskii 's description of the Siberian penal system as ‘ The House of the Dead ’ . |
| 16 | He went to the village school in Crawcrook , where his abilities were so marked as to attract the attention of his father 's landlord , Sir Thomas Liddell ( later first Baron Ravensworth ) , to whose collieries in Killingworth , Northumberland , he was sent in April 1811 to learn the business of a viewer or colliery manager . |
| 17 | Some people were so bold as to suggest that he had now lost his grip and was writing pretty fair garbage . |
| 18 | However , his stated grounds for that opinion were a figment of his imagination : his misdescriptions of the performance were so fundamental as to vitiate any factual basis for his criticism . |
| 19 | Other defects were so trivial as to have no effect . |
| 20 | In certain circumstances the trial judge might feel that the facts relating to the making of statements such as those made in this case to Mr. O'Hanlon were so unusual as to justify him in directing the prosecution to furnish them to the defence , but this must be a matter within the discretion of the trial judge . |
| 21 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 22 | Studies on attitudes towards the monarchy reveal that respondents do not resemble McGuire 's subjects ( 1964 ) , who were totally unarmed when called upon to defend their cultural truism . |
| 23 | With the exception of PEG 414 , the differences in absorption were statistically significant when comparing patients with active ulcerative colitis with patients in remission ( p<0.05–0.01 ) and controls ( p<0.05–0.01 ) . |
| 24 | Few things were more demoralising than to stand uselessly by while other men demonstrated their professional competence ; Kerrison , that connoisseur of death , literally sniffing at the body ; the photographers , taciturn , preoccupied with lighting and angles ; Inspector Doyle , in charge of a murder case at last , impresario of death , tense with the suppressed excitement of a child at Christmas gloating over a new toy . |
| 25 | For this reason his volumes of essays , After Puritanism ( 1929 ) , The Poisoned Crown ( 1944 ) , and The Progress of a Biographer ( 1949 ) , were more satisfactory as finished books . |
| 26 | It also brought Victorian attitudes dictating that dancing lessons in dance schools were more acceptable than dancing at large public Assemblies . |
| 27 | Thus the static form rather than the dynamic process became the characteristic concept in his philosophy of nature , and form and place were more fundamental than time . |
| 28 | William Willesley very possibly had one , for although his personal circumstances were slightly better than average his stipend was a wretched one , £3. 13s. 4d. a year . |
| 29 | Apart from branches of psychology , laboratory experiments in which factors were manipulated in order to achieve the necessary control were clearly impracticable when dealing with , say , the effects of educational attainment on voting choice . |
| 30 | While many of them had developed techniques for checking understanding when teaching ‘ traditional ’ FE students , some of which were also useful when working with bilingual students , few of them had any professional training in the part that language plays in classroom learning . |