Example sentences of "was [adv] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizenship was obviously and visually a life , your whole life , with common dangers , common responsibilities , common enjoyments , and common ambitions … |
| 2 | As has been seen above the Council was organically and functionally the creation of the member States with no separate existence outside their control . |
| 3 | It seems , on looking back , one day I was outside and then the next day I was in , as if I 'd had nothing to do with it : I had been pushed or drawn or whatever you like . |
| 4 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 5 | To my mind , Niki was technically and mechanically the better driver ; he was willing to make the absolute best of even the most minimal chance . |
| 6 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 7 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 8 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 9 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 10 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 11 | This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere . |
| 12 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 13 | The first street in Funchal was more or less the present Rua Santa Maria , and the flat area of beach was where the Largo do Corpo Santo is now . |
| 14 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |
| 15 | To effect the separation it was needful that the particle size was more or less the same . |
| 16 | Bumboy not only won : it was more or less the sole survivor . |
| 17 | This was more or less the view of the headmaster . |
| 18 | It was more or less the first thing we checked . ’ |
| 19 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 20 | He was more or less an alcoholic before he was 20 . |
| 21 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 22 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 23 | The latter is a is a direct result of setting a poll tax which was clearly and blatantly an under provision to provide decent services in this city . |
| 24 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 25 | But she did n't know where it was either and soon the whole family was up on their feet looking for the source of the noise . |