Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you were only a child really when you went there |
| 2 | You were only a child then , but now you 're a woman , and this time I 'm going to take what you came here to give me . ’ |
| 3 | But they were only a fraction ahead of the rest of the side , who always gave the ball carrier excellent support , |
| 4 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 5 | were only a month before so I sort of war wound down a bit , so |
| 6 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 7 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 8 | The potential to encourage lifestyle changes that would make retailing more environmentally sustainable are more limited than they were just a decade ago . |
| 9 | ‘ Talking about work , as we were just a moment ago … perhaps you would n't mind explaining to me why you want to reject some of the new designs I 've just shown you ? ’ |
| 10 | By the end of it we were just a shot oft Paul Azinger 's lead . |
| 11 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 12 | Special sound effects were still a problem though . |
| 13 | They were still a mile off , but their gray-black humps were unmistakable . |
| 14 | They loved the way acts like Hüsker Dü and The Minutemen ( so named because , in the beginning , all their songs were under a minute long ) made sharp , concise statements about love and life , without introducing dubious concepts ( that came much later ) . |
| 15 | Few realized that Depailler and Hunt were both a lap down on Andretti . |
| 16 | They were also the group least likely to eat fresh fruit . |
| 17 | At the same time it was doubtless the case that by-employments , which were probably the rule rather than the exception , were decisive in bringing the level of wealth in districts unfavourable to husbandry more or less into line with that of the more eligible farming regions . |
| 18 | Sir James and the prison cell were simply a warning not to go too far , not to presume too much on our present weakness . ’ |
| 19 | And er we went in , there were quite a crowd there you know . |
| 20 | The older generations of miners were almost a race apart , misunderstood by outsiders . |
| 21 | Many of the words were almost a line long and all looked the same . |
| 22 | One moment , and the gush went forth Of music-mingled laughter — The struggling splash and deathly shriek Were there the instant after . |
| 23 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is not an exaggeration ( or a slur ) to say that the students were sometimes a jump ahead of their tutors , not for the first time in the history of education ! |
| 25 | They were barely a yard apart now . |
| 26 | The sudden motion brought her forward a step , so that suddenly they were barely a breath apart . |
| 27 | Year after year we came home convinced that ‘ all-German ’ emotions , though officially discouraged on one side and dormant on the other , were far from dead , and that the post-war arrangements in central Europe were therefore a lot less permanent than they might seem . |
| 28 | Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ? |
| 29 | That it had made contact was evident , for Sister Mary let out a cry , a weird sound that was rather a yell not a scream . |
| 30 | Now the feat hierarchical feature analysis that we 've done so far was predominantly a bottom up data driven process . |