Example sentences of "was [conj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 2 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 3 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 4 | Well I we used er used to live in Macclesfield and er of course you know it springs to mind when er but I did n't realize it was that long ago . |
| 5 | In such surveys , however , such as that of 100 primary schools implementing the national curriculum , the conclusion was that as long ago as autumn 1989 " the best work seen in year 1 classes fully met , and went beyond , the requirements of the National Curriculum attainment targets and programmes of study in the core subjects " ( HMI 1990 ) . |
| 6 | The problem was that as late as February 1989 they had no suitable neutron detector to use . |
| 7 | The second thing was that almost never did it matter since the whips ran the show . |
| 8 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 9 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 10 | ‘ I know , like how big his cock was and so on . |
| 11 | The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening . |
| 12 | There was and there still remains a feeling that some Union members feel as though they have ‘ allowed ’ us to exist autonomously and have special union representation . |
| 13 | I quickly became aware of what a ‘ real polis ’ was and more importantly what boundaries one had to cross to cease being real and in effect become unreal , inauspicious , and inhuman . |
| 14 | So , no she 's very much in the background she was and then course little old boy he goes down to her and his old eyes lit up again s , so then eventually come in , so he said erm oh here 's that trophy they wanted , she come third in Great Britain , little old gran . |
| 15 | Maybe it was because today so closely mirrored that subconscious yearning for escape she 'd experienced , gazing at the yachts outside Roman 's office , that she felt slightly disorientated . |
| 16 | They had been conquered by Menelik but among them the Abyssinian imprint was as yet barely discernible , for which I was thankful . |
| 17 | When he next turned his attention to the matter , The Times leader writer had to explain to his readers that the law of debtor and creditor was as yet only in a transitional state and that a very unsatisfactory one . |
| 18 | Jacobitism as a movement was as yet too incoherent and badly organised , and lacked a firm social base . |
| 19 | The great industrial enterprise was as yet less significant . |
| 20 | The population of the town doubled in the last forty years of the eighteenth century ( thirty-five thousand people in 1760 ; seventy-three thousand in 1801 ) , but it was as yet far from being the dark and horrible landscape that it eventually became . |