Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Truman administration was widely condemned for allowing the " fall " of China , although , as Secretary of State Dean Acheson pointed out , there was little more the US could do for Chiang — short of direct intervention by US forces in the civil war . |
| 2 | DURING the months of March , April and May , while at Verdun the Germans were painfully inching forward towards the summits of Le Mort Homme and Côte 304 , in the world outside there was little enough the belligerents could find of positive comfort . |
| 3 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 4 | Was this then the moment to come clean , he wondered ? |
| 5 | It was nearly four in the morning by now , and Boy was ready to sleep ; not exhausted , but content , knowing that the night was perfect just the way it was . |
| 6 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 7 | His voice was hearty yet the answer did not convince her . |
| 8 | When he was angry then the Yorkshire surfaced again in his voice , the grate of the harsh streets of Leeds . |
| 9 | er I thought your chain was loose there the way it was hanging |
| 10 | It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at . |
| 11 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 12 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 13 | he was Vietnamese presumably the comments were of a racist nature ? |
| 14 | If the market was efficient then the model could not produce above normal profits for the user . |