Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vamplew suggests shareholding was rather more democratically distributed in Scotland with skilled manual workers making up 19.1 per cent of shareholders in twenty-three clubs up to 1916 . |
| 2 | It was a grand chance to see all the states and sometimes Canada , even if it was rather too fast moving . |
| 3 | She was n't sure really how long she could keep it up — since after all , he was most probably here to stay … |
| 4 | The living-room has a lived-in feel about it and the parlour , so immaculately tidy was so obviously only used for special occasions . |
| 5 | She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan . |
| 6 | She 'd heard the landlady say how it was all over now bar the shouting . |
| 7 | But the concession of the papal taxes of the clergy to the king was all too clearly to release the king from baronial pressure when his oath to the barons was cancelled and the obdurate archbishop recalled . |
| 8 | The reviews of A Very British Coup and Distant Voices , Still Lives have shown how this gap in left criticism was all too easily filled by the ideas and discourse of the mainstream . |
| 9 | That purity was all too easily sullied . |
| 10 | Indeed , the search for anatomical abnormalities seemed to create a division between conditions , such as haemorrhage into the brain or a cerebral tumour , where an organic cause of disease was obvious , and conditions where a patient was all too evidently suffering from a mental disturbance , but for which no physical basis could be found . |
| 11 | The devil was all too efficiently looking after his own . |
| 12 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |
| 13 | London was all too obviously selling Hong Kong down the Pearl River , despite its protestations to the contrary . |
| 14 | This request was obviously not well received , for at the bottom of the letter is the hand-written comment : ‘ At first sight it certainly appears a bad case of body snatching , but I assume this is not so . ’ |
| 15 | Refusing to credit that story , he was obviously not much moved by the excitements that flowed from it . |
| 16 | The problem of residual pottery was obviously not fully understood at this time , and a return must be made to this point later . |
| 17 | I had to remind myself sternly that Thornfield was not my permanent home , and that the person I was so looking forward to seeing was perhaps not even thinking of me . |
| 18 | Bakunin was perhaps not entirely wrong in supposing that in such a time the spirit of at least potential insurrection was most likely to smoulder among the marginal and sub-proletariat , though he was quite mistaken in believing that they would be the base of revolutionary movements . |
| 19 | This allegiance to Stalinist construction was perhaps most forcefully articulated in 1938 in Nizan 's critical review of Georges Friedmann 's De la Sainte Russie a l'URSS . |
| 20 | The worst was yet to come , was perhaps always yet to come , never would actually come , because if it did you would know it , that would be reality , and there would be nothing then but to kill yourself . |
| 21 | It looked no doubt much like other fortified noble houses of the period in Rome , although it was perhaps more lavishly decorated . |
| 22 | Certainly the industry 's borrowings amounted to a significant portion of the new capital raised on the London market , and the profitability of its investment was below that typically earned by private industry . |
| 23 | However , when approaching Cézanne after an intensive analysis of the predominantly simple , sculptural forms of tribal art , Picasso was naturally most immediately drawn to the precise , solid treatment of volumes that is found in so much of Cézanne 's portraiture and still-life painting . |
| 24 | The international organisations and aid donors did what they could to fill the gap by giving them special status and new credit facilities , but it was only just enough to keep them financially afloat . |
| 25 | Despite the quality of the exhibits and the rigorous and scholarly catalogue ( containing , among much else , an essay on ‘ The Birth of the Modern Museum ’ by Marc Fumaroli and a reflection on ‘ What does the Future hold for Museums ? ’ by the same author ) , the show was only averagely well attended with 248,000 visitors . |
| 26 | Ebenezer Howard 's ‘ garden city ’ movement was one man 's attempt to express the desire for a more suburban type of existence , although this was only ever fully developed in Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth . |
| 27 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 28 | This was apparently reasonably well received by the offenders involved , as even this basic standard of education would be sufficient to improve considerably their potential for employment and thus for higher earnings after their release . |
| 29 | Individual authorities apart , however , the pattern across London was much less clear cut . |
| 30 | Both have powered mills , but the Carrant Brook was much more heavily utilised . |