Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe to him Elise was dead even before she 'd died . |
| 2 | The average in Japanese companies was rather more than twice this percentage . |
| 3 | Woosnam , who was playing with Parry , salvaged a 73 which left him sharing fifth place with Price , four off the lead , which was rather better than it might have been . |
| 4 | My knowledge of French was rather better than Benjamin knew . |
| 5 | In elderly men the incidence of pancreatitis discharges decreased , suggesting that the cause of pancreatitis was most probably because of alcohol or a non-gall stone disease . |
| 6 | Rumours flared that her relationship with 32-year-old Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was on again when the two were seen embracing after his band 's surprise London gig last week . |
| 7 | Er now William of course was on more than one term at the end . |
| 8 | Down towards the river Severn , the Kidderminster area was relatively more prosperous , more like the clay vales , but in some villages near Worcester , the average per person was little more than £4 , even though fewer than 30 per cent of assessments were under £2 . |
| 9 | At a time when the national income was little more than £2 billion a coal production loss of nearly £100 million and a total loss of nearly £250 million had been incurred . |
| 10 | He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits . |
| 11 | When he reached it , the village was little more than six huge farm buildings in the classic German style : each wall a grid of brown-painted timbers , filled in with rough-plastered brickwork . |
| 12 | Moreover , these houses had four rooms , and each room was bigger than its Nottingham counterpart ; and there was rarely more than one family per house . |
| 13 | He would never have guessed that Kitty was rarely more than a dozen yards away from him , knowing he was the one who troubled Mary , shadowing him like a conscience . |
| 14 | This was so even when the Libyan masses expressed spontaneous enthusiasm for some measure or decree of the government . |
| 15 | This was so even when a child had been submitted for expert medical examination . |
| 16 | This was so even though the DHAs wanted twice as much revenue as was then being spent on the large hospitals . |
| 17 | That was so even though the breach of contract had been a negligent one . |
| 18 | This was so even though the business was not that of a car dealer . |
| 19 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 20 | That 's with me , seeing that it was so long before it was diagnosed , that 's why my feet and hands are still paralysed . |
| 21 | It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this . |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't got it , ’ he said , and it was so long since he 'd last spoken that the first words came hoarse and harsh , like the sound of some animal . |
| 23 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 24 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
| 25 | In those days we had to use an oil wool , which was all right after you washed it , if somewhat coarse . |
| 26 | ‘ It was all right until you came . ’ |
| 27 | I heard Rachel — you know , that miseryguts with a face like a reflection in a spoon — saying that they reckoned Hambury was all right because nobody ever complains . |
| 28 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 29 | Yes , but you see that was all right because it was going to the Louis Pasteur Institute for Aids , it 's the only piece of important jewellery I 've ever bought myself . |
| 30 | The princess kissed the frog and he did n't turn into a handsome prince but that was all right because she liked him as a frog . |