Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd how the scar had remained all these years . |
| 2 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 3 | It was nearly four in the morning by now , and Boy was ready to sleep ; not exhausted , but content , knowing that the night was perfect just the way it was . |
| 4 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 5 | His voice was hearty yet the answer did not convince her . |
| 6 | If the gas density in the PFM was appreciable then the terrestrial planets could have acquired substantial atmospheres , and these would have been representative of the PFM , with H 2 and He dominant . |
| 7 | Excitement had been steadily rising in the crowded chamber during the closing stages of the debate on a new clause to be added to the Criminal Justice Bill , but jubilation found vent in a roar of cheering when it was evident how the vote had gone … |
| 8 | When he was angry then the Yorkshire surfaced again in his voice , the grate of the harsh streets of Leeds . |
| 9 | er I thought your chain was loose there the way it was hanging |
| 10 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 11 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 12 | It was unclear why the Green Berets were in the hotel when the guerrillas attacked , whether the luxury hotel was their normal billet , and what their precise mission was supposed to be . |
| 13 | Hungarian Defence Minister Lajos Für described the agreement with neighbouring Ukraine as important because it was unclear how the Soviet-Hungarian military agreement signed in December [ see p. 38687 ] extended to individual states . |
| 14 | he was Vietnamese presumably the comments were of a racist nature ? |
| 15 | If the market was efficient then the model could not produce above normal profits for the user . |
| 16 | it was disgusting how the held the country to ransom did n't they ? |
| 17 | and er , it was bad enough the , the last one , erm , and I started with the Corporation when they opened at Turlings in that , that was in nineteen forty eight |
| 18 | It was disconcerting how the desire not to appear a fool followed one into captivity . |
| 19 | Oh it was horrible not the first time . |