Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it was generally accepted that the country was economically near bankruptcy and would need time and a continuation of generous American aid to effect recovery , few people doubted the economy could be rebuilt faster than that of devastated Europe and Japan . |
| 2 | The whole place was remarkably like school , only better . |
| 3 | I told her that an aunt of mine used to insist that Charles , the crippled brother in the book , was secretly in love with his cousin , Lady Eveleen . |
| 4 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , with whom half the Tory Party was secretly in love ( Edwina hoped the other half was in love with her ) , was holding a small court , flanked by her husband , Peter . |
| 5 | But how was that possible when he was secretly in love with Silvia ? |
| 6 | But from 1564 until 1585 England was mostly at peace with her neighbours , even if that peace was sometimes fragile . |
| 7 | That was stardom and Kenneth Williams was a star , even if his appeal was mostly on home territory . |
| 8 | The decor in the low-ceilinged room was mostly of wicker and bamboo , with plenty of foliage washed by a green light so vivid that its effect was one of utter unreality . |
| 9 | The wood was mostly of hardwood — oaks , beeches and elms — with an occasional small clump of conifers undergrown by a mass of rhododendron . |
| 10 | The conversation was mostly in Portuguese , a language in decline here , but still widely used among the landowning classes . |
| 11 | She was right of course , he knew that , but her words hurt just the same . |
| 12 | He was right of course , Carrie thought , and as she nestled the child to her and placed the teat of the bottle against the child 's searching mouth she bit on her lip and tried to suppress the anger which welled up inside her . |
| 13 | She was right of course . |
| 14 | Blanche was right of course . |
| 15 | He led her along a cold flagged corridor now , where the walls gleamed faintly with phosphorescence , and where , although wall sconces flared bravely , the light was greenish and lack-lustre , so that it was rather like walking under water . |
| 16 | Fishing was rather like farming in that a river fishery was a limited resource that could support only a restricted number of people . |
| 17 | It was rather like leaving tributes at an altar . |
| 18 | She was eventually in charge of 160 dancers at one point , and she choreographed productions all over the world . |
| 19 | We felt a little like prisoners and missed our privacy and independence ; my mother was the most aware of this feeling as she was the one who was most at home . |
| 20 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 21 | The group of the population which was most at risk was young children drinking locally produced milk . |
| 22 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 23 | Fleming sought help in identifying the mould from the mycologist La Touche , who worked in the same building and who thought that of the many species of Penicillium , it was most like Penicillium rubrum . |
| 24 | It was not so , because he behaved in this strange and bearish fashion from the very beginning , even when he was most in love with me . |
| 25 | Management training was mentioned most often by County and Metropolitan libraries , community relations were more likely to be mentioned by London , Metropolitan and Welsh libraries , and computer and technical training was most in evidence in Inner London . |
| 26 | As he rushed towards the wheat-rick that was most in danger , he saw he was not alone . |
| 27 | It shows that the lighter side of entertainment , then as now , was most in demand : Madame Pompodour , The Three Graces , Nell Gwynne , Tonight 's the Night , and two unnamed shows ; or there was variety from the Alhambra , seasons of opera from the Old Vic and ( at a small extra charge ) from Covent Garden , and the usual Sunday church services . |
| 28 | Thus each profile had a distinct expression ; and when the movable side was most in action , the rigid one was in its coldest state of watchfulness . |
| 29 | And , while she was chewing on that , suddenly some fierce Czech expletive rent the air , then , ‘ Hell , did you have me fooled ! ’ he raged , and when she had been certain that his fury was wholly on account of her pretending to be a journalist when she was not , he proceeded to throw her thinking totally out of gear when , his face whiter than ever , ‘ You wanted that interview so badly you were even ready to commit adultery to get — ’ |
| 30 | It was a moment to be savoured , when danger was past and I was wholly at peace . |