Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission . |
| 2 | You were only young too and perhaps you 'd found it difficult that first time , to avoid having to make another date . |
| 3 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |
| 4 | The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain . |
| 5 | Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim so that he could not see ’ ( 27.1 ) . |
| 6 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 7 | Quite frequently therefore a soldier might be appointed to head a mission in Berlin or St Petersburg in the justified belief that military men were especially welcome there and likely to be effective representatives . |
| 8 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 9 | She left the bitch in possession and took her evening meal up on deck — the evenings were just warm enough and light enough . |
| 10 | However , the Independent Television Commission ruled that the adverts were more tongue-in-cheek rather than sinister or sexist and that , in any , case the Naomi Campbell one had been moved to a post-9pm slot . |
| 11 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 12 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 13 | Higgs believed that the services of a working man 's wife were more valuable economically when they were employed at home than in the labour market . |
| 14 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 15 | At that time , the continents of North America and Europe were still close together and the Atlantic was no more than a narrow strip of sea between the two . |
| 16 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 17 | The floor sloped slightly and the pews , which held 2,500 , were slightly curved so that the preacher ‘ can be seen from every part of the building ’ . |
| 18 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 19 | Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands . |
| 20 | D-dimer , fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products were also high initially and then decreased , whilst renal function improved to normal on day 14 and remained so . |
| 21 | They were probably strong enough if they acted as a team to push him aside , but he had the gun . |
| 22 | Our waterproof walking boots were really necessary here as we balanced on rocks to cross the gushing stream . |
| 23 | But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside . |
| 24 | All five wards were now open however and fully furnished ; 38 patients could be accommodated on the recommendation of subscribers . |
| 25 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 26 | According to this synthesis , Keynesian unemployment was a phenomenon which was primarily attributable to downwardly sticky money wages and prices , the obvious implication being that general unemployment would never arise if money wages and prices were perfectly flexible downwards as well as upwards . |
| 27 | Racial politics were as distasteful then as now but were as the government put it " part of an essential compromise " . |
| 28 | She made believe that they were as happy together as they should be , and was careful to weep only in secret . |
| 29 | The said transactions and each of them were so entered into : – ( i ) in the course of the first defendant 's contravention of section 3 of the Act for the period ( July 1988 to March 1989 ) when the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned therein and/or ( ii ) as a result of contraventions of sections 47 and 57 in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned . |
| 30 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |