Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 17 April 1764 , he finally got the go-ahead , providing of course that the new building was erected as economically as possible . |
| 2 | The Union Jack was fluttering proudly more than 29,000 feet above sea level , planted there by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay three days previously on May 30 . |
| 3 | The concern of the wealthy landowner was to continue as long as possible the wealth and social status of the family . |
| 4 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 5 | Or at least it was withdrawn as far as er railway engines were concerned . |
| 6 | It was formed as early as 1805 by the Marchese Tommaso degli Obizzi whose taste in ‘ primitives ’ was ahead of his time . |
| 7 | The meal was consumed as rapidly as was comfortable within 15 minutes or stopped when satiation occurred . |
| 8 | The 1960s witnessed a downturn in economic performance and a growing realization that , in comparative terms , Britain was faring less well than many of her continental neighbors . |
| 9 | It was raining quite heavily when er I took Heidi up . |
| 10 | The 77-year-old Cranston , who had resigned as majority whip in 1990 and had dropped plans to seek re-election in 1992 on grounds of ill-health , was treated more severely because he had received by far the largest contributions and , unlike the others , had actively solicited funds . |
| 11 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 12 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 13 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 14 | Our aim was to go as far as the Wellenkuppe ( 3,903 metres ) , a beautiful mountain in its own right . |
| 15 | As a result , by the end of the seventeenth century popular Anglicanism was enmeshed more closely than ever within the social fabric of the English countryside . |
| 16 | It was recognized more clearly than before that most large companies actually held a portfolio of businesses , and that long-term growth , or indeed survival , might depend more on managing that portfolio rather than assuming continued growth on all fronts . |
| 17 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 18 | In many of these ( 233 cases ) it turned out that a person was recognized perfectly well as being familiar but the subjects reported a difficulty in recalling other details , such as the person 's name . |
| 19 | The aim was to restore as far as was practically possible the conditions of the pre-First World War era . |
| 20 | I took the view , shared by counsel , that no similar privilege was justified so far as copyright was concerned . |
| 21 | Perhaps she did not realize how easy it was to sit perfectly still while you studied the faces one by one of the people in the audience , imagining their names , learned the words of the speaking players , and then — best of all ! — played the Wishing Game . |
| 22 | Few of its members , remembering the success of Lloyd George in 1981 , expected to win against the personal appeal of Winston Churchill , who was regarded almost universally as the principal saviour of the country , not only in the crisis of 1940 but in the years of partnership with foreign allies . |
| 23 | This was proving even harder than she 'd anticipated , she thought , nervous hilarity bubbling up inside her . |
| 24 | The markets became empty and what food was left in Paris was prized more highly than gold . |
| 25 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 26 | This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn . |
| 27 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 28 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 29 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 30 | It was to meet as often as was thought desirable . |