Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw the amusement in his eyes , the question which he was delicately careful not to put . |
| 2 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 3 | A hormonal seizure was upon him , triggered by sight of the bare green flesh of that alien foe of Humankind , whom he was most unlikely ever to see again . |
| 4 | It was most infuriating not to know what Gina had done with all the free loot . |
| 5 | But there was so much else to see that , as time flew by , it was no surprise to her that , having been thoroughly absorbed , she had forgotten entirely such necessities as eating , until Ven good-humouredly mentioned , ‘ Since I did n't wish to intrude on your pleasure to suggest a coffee-break , will you permit me , at ten past one , to suggest we have a break for lunch ? ’ |
| 6 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
| 7 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
| 8 | Even in medical school it had inhibited her to the point where she had even had serious doubts about whether she would be able to continue her studies , simply because , unlike many of her senior colleagues , she had never quite managed to acquire the kind of detachment that was so necessary sometimes to become a doctor . |
| 9 | Within a minute of coming on , substitute Tony O'Donovan put Didcot right back in to the game and then Paul Spittle was so unlucky not to level the scores as his shot hit the post . |
| 10 | Once it had been a railway shed , indeed the tracks were still in it , later , in a period when Gilbey 's Gin had used the building as a warehouse , a balcony had been added , which was only wide enough to take one person . |
| 11 | We began to ‘ talk ’ , though my ‘ kitchen Arabic ’ was only good enough to ply her with questions and to catch perhaps half of the answers . |
| 12 | And his reputation for honour was apparently widespread enough to have reached Gloucester . |
| 13 | Mrs Fitchew said she was extremely relieved not to have been sent to prison . |
| 14 | Ambulance crews who treated the child said she was extremely fortunate not to suffer serious eye injuries in the incident . |
| 15 | Filmer ignored my presence throughout and I was extremely careful not to draw his attention by spilling things . |
| 16 | Each repeated the other 's remarks and on the couple of occasions that I went there when Sparks were crowded out , I found that it was extremely difficult not to laugh . |
| 17 | A shopkeeper with a shop in Bristol Central and a home in Bristol West would now qualify for a vote in both constituencies ; under the new system , there were few ways to qualify for plural votes , but it was much easier actually to qualify , and so tens of thousands of new plural votes were created , overwhelmingly Unionist . |
| 18 | From this position Morris was soon able both to develop a practice of his own and to secure the fruits of public office : as early as 1727 he was referred to in print as ‘ the noted architect Mr. Morris ’ , and in 1731–2 he made a visit to Italy . |
| 19 | Mrs Fricker , for her part , was soon wise enough to discover ‘ a great aversion to leaving Bristol ’ . |
| 20 | And his feeling of intense satisfaction at this conclusion was only because he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision . |
| 21 | Steve Foster was desperately unlucky not to score when he 'd bludgeoned his way through , right on the stroke of half time . |
| 22 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 23 | When first setting out for Basle , he had expressed the conviction that his grasp of life 's " true and essential problems " was already strong enough to meet the threat to his " philosophic sense " posed by academic specialization . |
| 24 | By 1933 , the audience was already sophisticated enough to enjoy , in The Fatal Glass of Beer , scenes that deliberately emphasized the artificiality of the process , as when W C Fields half-heartedly drives his team of male mute dogs across the frozen Northern wastes of the Yukon , prospecting for gold — though one of the dogs is too small for its legs to reach the ground . |
| 25 | One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine . |
| 26 | The road was scarcely wide enough to accommodate two cars travelling abreast but the Audi ploughed up a grass verge . |
| 27 | The first was scarcely large enough to qualify as a room . |
| 28 | The cupboard was just deep enough to hold him sitting cross-legged , his head concealed in the pinstriped folds of Francie 's second-best suit , which hung on a hanger . |
| 29 | ‘ We could n't believe it when we saw the size of the hole it had fallen down , it must have slipped backwards and was just small enough to slip in . ’ |
| 30 | In fact my chain was just long enough to let me get into the tiny bathroom , two feet from my mattress , to use the toilet . |