Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology . |
| 2 | In east Africa wage-paid labour was confined almost entirely to entrepôt ports such as Mombasa and Zanzibar . |
| 3 | In later records , notably the census returns of 1841 and 1851 , he was said more specifically to follow the trade of fancy weaver , that is the manufacture of waistcoats and other garments with decorative patterns . |
| 4 | The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket . |
| 5 | I was persuaded long ago to use Flora instead of butter . |
| 6 | Sadly , the Board was virtually alone in this support , and to understand why , we must return for a moment to the sixties , when the test was used almost exclusively to curb the spread of erotica . |
| 7 | We saw that this term was used very generally to describe various sorts of tension which arise in social practices , or between them , and which may provoke changes in the structure of society . |
| 8 | He had tried experimentally and not without success in the past , but was needed more often to revert to orthodox seam . |
| 9 | Increasing numbers , increasing opportunities , and new ideas proved solvents of the old hierarchy ; and it is only towards the end of our period that a new type of hierarchy , with ideals and aspirations of a novel sophistication , was beginning once again to build walls round the classes of society . |
| 10 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 11 | So I could in fact use it to prove that there should be a singularity only if the universe was expanding fast enough to avoid collapsing again ( since only those Friedmann models were infinite in space ) . |
| 12 | Not for the first time he concluded that the Empire was inclined too quickly to dismiss mutant and alien societies and to confuse technological advancement with civilisation . |
| 13 | John hoped Hanns would be able to design sets and maybe costumes for the ballet tour ; meanwhile he was to start straight away to design posters and programme covers . |
| 14 | Her burst of temper had left her empty , drained of feeling , and all she wanted now was to crawl away somewhere to lick her wounds in private . |
| 15 | I was learning very fast to walk in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | The unrest was taken sufficiently seriously to prompt vigorous attempts by senior members of the government to dampen this constant speculation about the leadership : for example , Sir Geoffrey Howe , among others , publicly denied that there had been any Cabinet-level discussion about the Prime Minister standing down . |
| 17 | Yeah , I mean I do n't know how powerful they were that , I mean he were n't , he were n't belting on those but there was , he was playing loud enough to appreciate with its own you know |
| 18 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 19 | The villagers , who were expecting them , had their gifts ready and soon a small van was following slowly behind to transport their ever growing number . |