Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phenomenal Japanese expansion of the late 1950s , in which production outstripped consumption and accumulation accelerated enormously , was altogether exceptional and only temporarily sustainable . |
| 2 | She was intensely loyal and endlessly kind to those ( women ) she knew well and respected . |
| 3 | He was crazily frightened and awfully ashamed , so that , when he heard voices , men speak outside the cubicle , he could not yell out to be seen this way . |
| 4 | This was remarkably precise and remarkably misleading and seems once again to have been based essentially on Chinese communist capability . |
| 5 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 6 | The satisfying completeness of the Gotz Friedrich Die Walkure at Covent Garden with its famous Time Tunnel set : visually outre ( how rarely does one encounter gods in the Washington subway ) , it was vocally superb and beautifully conducted by Haitink . |
| 7 | Miss Logan observed several butterflies and numerous lizards , but was secretly disappointed that so few of the creatures which had descended from the Ark were manifesting themselves . |
| 8 | The endeavour was professionally abysmal as well as painful , and his money started to run out . |
| 9 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 10 | In the nineteenth century the breed was rather mixed and mostly horned , with polled types occurring only very locally , and those of the north were mostly described as ‘ white pied ’ while those of the south were red . |
| 11 | It seems that Herle was rather exploited than gainfully employed . |
| 12 | Moreover , the quality of much of the facia and control plastic was rather hard and crudely textured . |
| 13 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |
| 14 | was as perfect as for any building that he ever saw erected ; and as for the light he thought it was rather overdone than otherwise . |
| 15 | Nigel thought his mother was rather crude as well as not versed in the ways of the world and in what men want . |
| 16 | Their hair was uniformly white and long . |
| 17 | The air was bitterly cold and still , with the peculiar lifelessness that pervaded closed-off places . |
| 18 | The result was most elegant and really suited her . |
| 19 | Change , in industry , commerce , and agriculture , was most evident and most rapid in the periphery . |
| 20 | Respiratory tract infection was most prevalent and mainly community-acquired . |
| 21 | What was wholly unacceptable and certainly played no part in the deliberations prior to privatisation was that the coach station would also be sold . |
| 22 | Yet acceptance of the Western ‘ package ’ was rarely total and frequently superficial , and , as the inevitable reaction against the Occupation changes set in , receptivity to what the West had to offer became far more selective . |
| 23 | Geoffrey was outstandingly handsome and probably quite wealthy , yet Philippa was almost plain . |
| 24 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 25 | Kirtana was regarded as the poorest man in the village — but he was fiercely proud and once he had lost his land still refused to work on someone else 's . |
| 26 | Yet it was abundantly clear that only when she was away from the influence of the house was she able to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 27 | Though it was so strange and so cryptic , Boy understood this call , because he began to understand now that there are different kinds of wanting someone . |
| 28 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 29 | It was wretched luck that the weather that day was so awful that only 1000+ turned up to see Simpson well played by Bernard Joy and Palace win by 3–2 . |
| 30 | Suggesting that life under Hitler was so bloody that even his deputy wanted to get out . |