Example sentences of "was [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was mostly because the $40.3 billion charged to its cards was far ahead of Discover 's $19.4 billion , and because Citibank had built up three times as much outstanding debt as Discover . |
| 2 | It seemed that she was right as the Allies crossed the Rhine and swept through Germany . |
| 3 | This was so whether the reformative sentence would be disproportionately long or disproportionately short , although most adherents of the Justice Model in the 1970s ( who tended to be liberal or moderately radical in political persua-sion ) wanted a just deserts system which would punish less harshly overall — again like Beccaria two centuries previously . |
| 4 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 5 | In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’ |
| 6 | It could be argued that this was so because the individualist Hobbesian anarchism which formed the theoretical model of the bourgeois economy provided no basis for any form of social organisation , including that of the family . |
| 7 | Poole remarked that the choice of Stravinsky music horrified many people ( this was long before the composer had been understood or accepted by general audiences ) and the score ‘ made great difficulty for the cast but none at all for John ’ . |
| 8 | This was long before the De Lorean affair began to cast its long shadow over Chapman 's empire , but the two incidents served to keep me on my toes . |
| 9 | Leading the way to her sitting-room , she turned to face him , and saw that any gentleness of expression was long since a thing of the past . |
| 10 | As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day . |
| 11 | Clouds towered on every side , and the attacking front was less than a mile to their left . |
| 12 | Left-booted , he forced the bike upright as he hit the water , which was less than a foot deep . |
| 13 | It seemed amazing that it was less than a year since that had been said . |
| 14 | McCartney was less than a year older and even Ringo , the ‘ old man ’ of '60s pop was just 23 . |
| 15 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 16 | It was less than a hundred metres away , and gave us a long hard look as we stood there . |
| 17 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 18 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 19 | Although the original intention was to devote every Thursday morning during the autumn term to the project , the time spent each week was less than a morning as pupils from Sutton School had to be transported one and half miles to Russells Hall , and other events such as school assemblies delayed the start each Thursday . |
| 20 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 21 | Back at the beginning of November we instigated our first car boot sale , which we reluctantly accept was less than a 110 per cent success . |
| 22 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 23 | Our house was less than a kilometre from the pick-up point . |
| 24 | The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year . |
| 25 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 26 | There was less than a yard between the beds . |
| 27 | In 1991 , the figure for England and Wales was less than a third of what it was 10 years ago . |
| 28 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 29 | Presley City 's up-town morning traffic was less than a match for it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but Edwin told me once that there was less than a dozen pictures altogether . |