Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used to give them Pedigree Chum too , but it was mostly cat food . |
| 2 | It was mostly Crown land , divided into ‘ Rayles ’ ( enclosed areas for herding deer ) . |
| 3 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 4 | One of his most enterprising productions was Little Mary Sunshine in 1962 . |
| 5 | ‘ It was constantly party time , ’ he recalls . |
| 6 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 7 | ALAN CORK , fast becoming as big a folk hero at Bramall Lane as he was down Wimbledon way , has set a new record . |
| 8 | There was down stage right and left and upstage right and left , up centre , down centre and of course centre plus many others such as ‘ left of so and so ’ . |
| 9 | More importantly , it was only Biscuit Bomber left in Australia . |
| 10 | No I was only garrison artillery on guns . |
| 11 | Yeah well , there was n't many shops there really dear , there were just the er fishmongers and greengrocers and the butchers and the , we used to have to go there to get , to queue up , you had to queue because there was no , not many shops to be there you see to serve you , it 's altered a lot now , there 's a lot more shops now and the doctors I used to have to queue right out the gate , the doctors a big long queue , there was only Dr surgery and then we had another doctor came that started down at erm the bottom of erm Harlow near where , where do they call that ? |
| 12 | Because you see that surface water , it was only surface water , because when that boat was drifting there was an awful lot of movement . |
| 13 | It was only Operation Eagle that saved him and his men from the penal unit they were serving in . ’ |
| 14 | She was tearing herself away from him and spinning round to face him , a storm in her eyes that was only part fury . |
| 15 | It was only tomato sauce , after all ! |
| 16 | It was only police vigilance which prevented more than the four casualties . |
| 17 | There was only booking Amnesty ? |
| 18 | He thought that the Capra film had made ‘ greenish grass grow where there was only alkali dust before ’ because it consistently preferred ‘ the light touch to the heavy ’ and used actors ‘ who are thoroughly up to the work of acting ’ . |
| 19 | It was only summer timber thing , you know . |
| 20 | Before it was only pet shop owners who were entertained ! |
| 21 | Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying , so there was only routine work to attend to . |
| 22 | I 'm sure I seen it , or was it , less it was only club book I seen it in . |
| 23 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |
| 24 | It was only family loyalty that prevented Lucy from admitting that her aunt 's references to her dear Tom had never sounded convincing , and , giving a small sigh , she said , ‘ Perhaps I understand more than you realise . ’ |
| 25 | It was nevertheless US equipment that was most in the news , after the struggle in Congress to carry through the sale of F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia in the face of resolute opposition from Israel and its supporters in the American legislature . |
| 26 | So the drop in fee income was largely people delaying letting us do the work : it was n't solely through lost work . |
| 27 | He 'd forgotten about the booklet that he put forward on building regulations , the forward that he 'd put forward , so what he was asking to do was already Council policy that he initiated but forgot about . |
| 28 | He was already master mason to the cathedral and about 1310 undertook the new work of the presbytery , at the joint cost of the bishop and priory . |
| 29 | The same approach could be taken with regard to the Maastricht Treaty : when it was signed there was already Community legislation on , for example , consumer protection , tourism , energy policy , European networks , health protection , and ( to a limited extent ) education . |
| 30 | While water certainly found a place in the past in the landscapes of famous gardeners like Capability Brown , this was scarcely water gardening as we know it today . |