Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lamb won the toss and chose to field , but although Haynes was soon dismissed there was altogether more resistance from the West Indian batsmen than before . |
| 2 | ‘ He was incredibly good company ; he used to make me laugh all the time . |
| 3 | The culture of the features used was overwhelmingly middle class and European : the cookery columns , for example , assumed the reader lived in a house with a gas or electric oven . |
| 4 | The seemingly potent forces of his Imperium were stretched thin as strands of spider-silk in a giant galactic web which was mostly vacant space . |
| 5 | Cawthorne 's file from Prior , Keen , Baldwin did n't actually mention the Exhilarator , it was mostly financial stuff about his holdings and interests in the City . |
| 6 | It was mostly silver set with unpleasant purple stones . |
| 7 | It was mostly warm-weather gear , light cotton and silk dresses , blouses , skirts , jeans , tights , panties , bras , the whole lot smelling of her , a mixture of scent , talc , perspiration and her own peculiar body odour . |
| 8 | It was mostly soft grass and woodchips here , and she 'd stepped out of her shoes and was now carrying them , walking barefoot . |
| 9 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 10 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 11 | ‘ I bet I was right first time , ’ she said to Betty . |
| 12 | They 'd get off the bus from West London there because they were such big Faces fans and Malcolm 's shop was right next door to the home of the dandy fashion shop Granny Takes A Trip — a shop which had a Cadillac sticking out of its window — where The Faces and The Stones bought their clothes |
| 13 | You went to work by yourself but you had to be taken to the hospital , and when I was on Martin it was right next door . |
| 14 | common and he lived at Grimston and er he got this plot and er what was right next door to it was a sort of real big old li like a French chateau and he wanted a big ge red brick Georgian house , a real big one , sort of sitting at the back of this plot that the owner |
| 15 | Er of course , it was rather dangerous work , really , because it was stuff we was dealing with . |
| 16 | It was rather late notice to book a table . ’ |
| 17 | In the case of the Mother and Child scheme , it was rather through withdrawal from the scene that first the politicians and later the churchmen avoided further trouble . |
| 18 | The , it was officially launched in London yesterday at Ken 's House , unfortunately neither of the two officer 's could go , it was rather short notice , but it has been officially launched now as a national thing . |
| 19 | In the field of the symphony , there was rather more competition . |
| 20 | His appearance was rather more conformist now — he looked more like the Lowell of the old days . |
| 21 | Little evidence supported this theory , and there was rather more reason to think that antihistamines might be blocking noradrenaline receptors . |
| 22 | where it uses in relation to the previous authorities the words ‘ the principal debtor acted as the agent of the creditor in obtaining a security ’ to relate to any formal contractual agency or agency by ostensible authority but was rather another way of saying ‘ they left it to the debtor to obtain the execution of the necessary documents . ’ |
| 23 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 24 | There was rather less humour at Price Waterhouse earlier in October when a 786-page report by Senator John Kerry was published in Washington . |
| 25 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 26 | Rain suspected this was rather flimsy evidence on which to accuse Oliver of trafficking in drugs . |
| 27 | In southern India , where the population was predominantly low caste , there was strong support for Singh 's action . |
| 28 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 29 | right and he said in it oh Roy , er Roy , strap him in Roy , cos he 's got this like thing and face mask to stop him talking , we saw Roy Hattersley right behind us , it was most embarrassing moment |
| 30 | It was most interesting talking to him ; he really was a most pleasant man . |