Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village of Teddington was tranquil once again today … a lone police car and childrens toys in the garden the only reminders of the triple killing there . |
| 2 | A particularly big tremor on 1 September 1880 damaged an important lighthouse on the Java coast , and was perceptible as far away as northern Australia . |
| 3 | Some of the children 's expectations were so heartbreakingly wrong that it was clear that much more needed to be done to inform young people about what work is really like . |
| 4 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 5 | What would be the position if the product was dangerous rather then merely defective . |
| 6 | When that did n't halt the disintegration they got a few able-bodied men from the village to help , but after a while it was obvious that much more radical repair was needed . |
| 7 | To Daugherty this trick ensured that the audience ‘ automatically became his ally ’ and it was all therefore very much ‘ a matter of showmanship ’ . |
| 8 | It was all very much less threatening an atmosphere than Judge Furner 's county court in Lewes in the 1840s . |
| 9 | Oh dear , it was all so very long ago . |
| 10 | It was all so far away now . |
| 11 | But it was all so much more difficult than she had ever imagined it would be . |
| 12 | ‘ Vaguely , but it was all so long ago , ’ he said . |
| 13 | It was all so long ago . ’ |
| 14 | He came from a cricketing family — his father was a leading fast bowler in Antigua — and his great talent was evident very early on , so that he was already popular with the fans as a youngster . |
| 15 | ‘ Charles and Camilla enjoyed a kind of secret romance which was meaningful yet never really intense . |
| 16 | Thus , in spite of the importance of the pioneering work in rural areas , it was apparent even as late as 1935 that the District had made little substantial and quantifiable impact in its rural counties and among its dispersed population . |
| 17 | Ginny had never been able to understand why Ralph continued to put up with the expense and inconvenience of a London solicitor ; the legal advice he received at Lincoln 's Inn was available far more cheaply in Paulstock . |
| 18 | The memory of that puzzling experience still disturbed and excite And then there were her bare feet in the stream and the tadpoles round her ankles , the cherry blossoms which she had thrown in his face , and above all the walk upon the airfield : there was magic there all right . |
| 19 | A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley . |
| 20 | Paula smiled , all sunshine now she had her own way , and treated her mother to a hug that was enthusiastic yet somehow oddly impersonal . |