Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table . |
| 2 | It was most probably the closeness to the river that was the deciding factor in choosing the site , for the state of the roads at that time made it easier to travel by water . |
| 3 | It was most probably the cry of one of those . ’ |
| 4 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 5 | The story of the weekend was most certainly the success of the team that travelled the full vast width of the country to emerge as only the second-ever to represent Newfoundland in the final . |
| 6 | Birds and cats , as everyone knows , do not normally hit it off , and when Dawn met our cat , Jasper , this was most definitely the case . |
| 7 | There were places where it was effectively not the Principal but the local authority that was running the college — a tradition of detailed local authority control over further education Institutions that it was difficult to break even in developed institutions . |
| 8 | It was presumably where the community was predominantly free that one finds continual buying and selling of land between peasant families and the consequent development of a group of more prosperous men in the community . |
| 9 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 10 | He was halfway up the final flight when he heard the voiders ' whistle in the street outside , its piercing din unmistakable . |
| 11 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 12 | All the same , by the time he was halfway down the passage , she was coming back , staggering under the weight of a large , square , glass case . |
| 13 | It was enough just the hot water and the spills |
| 14 | ‘ Having the bump out the front was so obviously the right thing at the right time . |
| 15 | came in half way through it , at least half way erm but it was so obviously the voice of erm Freud , Clement Freud |
| 16 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 17 | Heterosexuality among English writers , it was being implied , was so much the exception to the rule as to demand special treatment . |
| 18 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 19 | As was so often the case in central-local relationships , poor distribution was often to blame . |
| 20 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 21 | Warner Bros had once again profitably combined instruction and entertainment but as was so often the case it was the way in which they had used an actor that made the movie work in both respects . |
| 22 | Nowhere is the art of the Designer needed more than when a script calls for an entirely new world to be created , as was so often the case in Doctor Who . |
| 23 | As was so often the case with railway stations , these facilities were reaching their highest point at just the time when immigration — like the passenger statistics themselves — was about to take a steep downturn . |
| 24 | This was less often the case under the NBC . |
| 25 | Anyway , someone pointed out that the face in the mirror was obviously not the face of the woman looking into it , something to do with the angle at which the mirror was held , and what theory they attached to that , whether it had been intended , or a mistake , or even an overpainting at a later date — he did not remember that he had known about that . |
| 26 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 27 | Lastly an open door showed him a high square room , almost certainly set under the campanile , which was obviously both the vestry proper and the bell room . |
| 28 | The room in which they found themselves ran the whole length of the house and was obviously both the formal dining-room and library . |
| 29 | Ross was obviously still the same hard , tough personality that he 'd always been — never giving an inch in an argument , or showing any trace of the ordinary human weaknesses which affected everyone else . |
| 30 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |