Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously chemotherapy was most commonly used to treat men suffering from testicular cancer . |
| 2 | Previously chemotherapy was most commonly used to treat men suffering from testicular cancer . |
| 3 | Masturbation was most often used to demonstrate how the transgression of divine law inevitably brought down the wrath of God : ‘ For he that soweth his flesh , shall of the flesh reap corruption . ’ |
| 4 | Was most often used to describe the original IBM PC , but is now more widely used to describe any computer . |
| 5 | She was most likely going to fix up about someone shutting the hens up for her instead of him , going to see the other boy . |
| 6 | I was jolly well tempted to tell him it 's those wretched Frenchmen . |
| 7 | He had a mountain to climb and he was jolly well going to reach the top or die in the attempt . |
| 8 | He said he wanted to toast a bridesmaid but there were n't any around so he was jolly well going to toast Gill instead . |
| 9 | Charles the Bald was presumably not seeking to stir up trouble in Corbie . |
| 10 | Her voice sounded drugged and heavy from the feelings she was so desperately trying to bring under control . |
| 11 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 12 | She drew back , rejecting this warmth that was so obviously designed to undermine her determination . |
| 13 | Not now , not when there was so much left to discover . |
| 14 | The violence of the language used by the chronicler of St Albans shows his hatred of the Forest system , which was so often used to extort money from the monasteries . |
| 15 | The commemorative battle was sufficiently well choreographed to avoid serious damage … although there were still plenty of cuts and bruises . |
| 16 | He appears to have set up in trade as a London mercer , and he was sufficiently well connected to obtain , like his uncle and elder brother , a minor office at court , that of ‘ harbinger ’ , arranging the progresses of the queen . |
| 17 | And no doubt because that is where the railway was long ago made to go , other uglinesses too have intruded between Pau and the Pyrenees , on the far bank of the Gave . |
| 18 | Nicky and Enya pride themselves on their rows ; ‘ I was basically just left to concentrate on music , ’ says Enya . |
| 19 | When it was some ten metres away and was obviously not going to stop at the shelter , Adam stepped right into its path . |
| 20 | Theda took Hector to the kitchen and left him with Mrs Elswick to do what he might in the way of cajolery , for she had several morsels of interest to his ever ready stomach , and Theda was obviously not going to take him outside . |
| 21 | He seemed intent on what James was saying , and was obviously not going to rise to her remark . |
| 22 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 23 | Although she was only just learning to speak , on spotting one she would shout ‘ mushoosh , mushoosh ’ ' much to the amusement of passers by . |
| 24 | At this time West German rearmament was only just beginning to gather momentum . |
| 25 | But , in Britain , it was election year , and , in America , President Johnson was only just beginning to grasp the reins of power after Kennedy 's assassination , and so little political progress was made . |
| 26 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 27 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 28 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 29 | At that time , Mary 's mother had a strange , possessive relationship with another woman ; an affair which young Mary was only just beginning to understand . |
| 30 | The steady gaze was only just beginning to show a hint of scorn . |