Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean — A , it was incredibly badly set out . |
| 2 | Somehow the secret was remarkably well kept . |
| 3 | Even if it failed , the attempted takeover was remarkably well planned and executed . |
| 4 | This high western section was remarkably well preserved , the stone slabs tightly laid , and the primitive stairway safe and solid . |
| 5 | It was only a matter of months before she was forced to withdraw even with the support of Alfonso ( who now that the Cid was dead finally recognized the worth of his finest knight ) . |
| 6 | The speech , billed as the most important address ever made by a Hong Kong governor , was mostly well received by community leaders , with criticisms focusing on its skimpy attention to important political issues . |
| 7 | On the seats we 'll call it , on the seats of the rowing boat , I was standing on that and my father said to me when I got aboard , do n't do that no more , he said , cos he say if that paddle , what we call the paddle , come out of that sculling hole , he said you 'll go over the side and the boat will go away from you , he said , you 'll be bloody well drowned , which was right never forgot it never . |
| 8 | The right hon. Member for Finchley was right yesterday to express concern from her point of view that the Foreign Secretary was a bit wobbly on majority voting . |
| 9 | But probably a guard had spotted it and it was right now sitting in some staff-room in Queen Street station , or Gallanach . |
| 10 | Naylor , tall , dark , and not looking any sweeter , was right there towering over her . |
| 11 | ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea . |
| 12 | ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea . |
| 13 | Jones had tried various materials and what he now sought was rather clearly defined — are there neutrons of a specific energy or not ? — and his apparatus was almost completed and ready to go ; the chemists by contrast had to do a broader range of experiments as their problem was more subtle — is there fusion and if so by what process ? — and the necessary materials and apparatus had yet to be assembled . |
| 14 | She tried again to meet Norman 's eye but he was rather desperately keeping his attention on that slut Yvonne . |
| 15 | Mrs Eckersley 's friend at the German Foreign Office , to whom he now offered his services as a full-time employee , passed him on to Dr Erich Hetzler , private secretary to the Nazi Foreign Minister , von Ribbentrop , whom Joyce was rather ungratefully to refer to in future as ‘ Ribbentripe ’ . |
| 16 | It was rather strangely put , he thought . |
| 17 | Lord Beddington , mindful of the same appointment , was rather optimistically emerging from the shop with a bottle of Lockyers Sulphur Hair-restorer , and six tablets of Amiral soap ( ‘ Removes Burden of Corpulency ’ ) . |
| 18 | Central Gully on Great End kept up its yearly performance when the cornice collapsed with a climber attached ( Sunday , March 3 ) — he and his partner were swept down the gully ( unfortunately one was rather badly hurt ) picking four others up en-route . |
| 19 | " Parallel " was rather better known than " perpendicular " or " at right angles to " ( see Example SS ) . |
| 20 | The independent Red Army press was rather better adapted to its readership . |
| 21 | Bridget Hill maintains that wife-beating was common through all levels of society , though it was rather better concealed among the affluent [ Hill , 199–200 ] . |
| 22 | I was rather less taken , however , with the somewhat frivolous embellishment of the flute obbligato in this movement . |
| 23 | In Vienna , the radical challenge of such a raw aesthetic of the instincts was rather quickly recuperated into an unchallenging baroque and decorative aesthetics . |
| 24 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 25 | Being a major shareholder or a director was rather like holding some honorific office within the community ; it brought its own private and social satisfactions which could not be measured financially . |
| 26 | Watching Violet sitting through the preliminaries to the world title elimination bout was rather like watching her son as he prepared for the fight . |
| 27 | So , in Madras , he demonstrated an alternative approach and it was rather like watching Norman Tebbit become Mahatma Ghandi . |
| 28 | In the end it was rather like working for two pop stars . |
| 29 | It was rather like working out the details of one of her plots : circumstances capable of more than one interpretation ; actions which might or might not be innocent ; individuals who might or might not have a genuine motive , the means and opportunity to commit the crime . |
| 30 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |