Example sentences of "was [adv] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of the Environment survey confirmed the results of earlier work carried out by Bristol University School for Advanced Urban Studies ; that it was predominantly the better-off and middle-aged tenants who bought , usually with more than one wage-earner in the household . |
| 2 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 3 | There was ‘ a foreign substance which can be felt by touch under the skin of the neck ’ , which was presumably the first and fatal bullet fired by Abbas Mohamed . |
| 4 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 5 | The raid on Gay 's The Word bookshop in 1984 was merely the largest and best publicised exercise in State censorship this decade . |
| 6 | It was merely the nearest and loudest of five or six clashing noises . |
| 7 | The pope 's request was all the odder because there was already in existence a special papal commission discussing birth control and related issues . |
| 8 | The impact was all the greater because for nearly two decades industry had benefited from particularly favourable terms of trade for raw materials and food which , in various ways , had moderated production costs and wage demands . |
| 9 | Time and time again families were identified with a particular farm or tenement , a link that was all the stronger because the home was also the place of work , the spot where an individual spent most of his time . |
| 10 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 11 | It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions . |
| 12 | However , it is perhaps significant that environmentalism received little attention as long as it was only the poor and the powerless who suffered from the detritus of industrial society . |
| 13 | This view was then modified by the ‘ young Hegelians ’ , a group of radical followers and critics of Hegel who argues that it was only the reformed or purified State which could be the source of a just society . |
| 14 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 15 | The car was not bought for resale , and the purchase was incidental to the company 's business as a freight forwarder ; it was only the second or third car bought by the company and so there was not the required degree of regularity . |
| 16 | It was only the last and biggest headline-grabber — Sir James Goldsmith 's failed bid in 1989 for B.A.T Industries — that threatened to bring junk to London . |
| 17 | Except that it was only the wealthy that did their two years . |
| 18 | We have precious little information about the internal life of most of these establishments ; it was only the scandalous that was reported . |
| 19 | Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person . |
| 20 | Their Lordships also had to look after half-a-dozen Caribbean islands , of which the newest , Jamaica , was much the largest and looked like providing the best prospects for the future . |
| 21 | Well the the idea of farming was much the same but he certainly was not very much of a farmer . |
| 22 | Doc Allsop 's professional grin , broad and crumpled as a crushed melon , was much the same whether he were offering congratulations or consolations . |
| 23 | It was much the same when it came to doctors for the people . |
| 24 | The organisation and roster of labour was much the same as usual . |
| 25 | But I asked one when we ( they ) were talking about income tax and rents and rates , and Herman implied that 95% was much the same as 100% . |
| 26 | In a way , the pattern of her life was much the same as during the years following her mother 's death : she ate alone and as soon as she heard her father 's key in the door she went upstairs to her room . |
| 27 | Posters and photographs featured strongly in the catalogue and the general mixture was much the same as that in the other sales . |
| 28 | Than Tun 's background was much the same as that of Aung San and Nu . |
| 29 | Wide Work , despite the richness and width of the vein — 6 ft. and more in places — was much the same as when the " German " miners had left it . |
| 30 | When the series of sessions with the advisory teacher came to an end , Betty said that she thought that the work had gone well and that the children had enjoyed it , although she had noticed that the response of the ‘ difficult ’ children , whom she also described as ‘ poorly motivated ’ , was much the same as usual . |