Example sentences of "was [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it was mostly the other thing , that he 'd had to sweat all his life and she 'd never done a hand 's turn . |
| 2 | As Tacitus informs us , all the tribes occupying that territory on the Roman side of the Rivers Trent and Avon , which was effectively the new province , were disarmed . |
| 3 | But the dramatic decline to 40 MPs in the 1924 General Election was effectively the electoral sign that the Liberal Party was no longer a realistic party of government . |
| 4 | From then until the dissolution of the Empire by Napoleon in 1806 the Imperial crown was effectively the hereditary possession of the Habsburg family . |
| 5 | Our story begins in India , where in 1885 what was arguably the only significant nationalist organization with which the British ever had to contend , the Indian National Congress , was founded by — an Englishman . |
| 6 | A glorious sunset is a standard Romantic thrill : the greetings which human beings exchange are usually meaningless , and the woman 's strange expression was presumably the usual one in that part of the country . |
| 7 | The buildings of this remarkable site included a large and elaborate bath-house and a guest-house with rooms round a courtyard and a fine pillared fore-hall , which was presumably the communal dining room serviced from the detached east wing and , as Wheeler suggested , based on the classical hostelry ( his p. 48 ) . |
| 8 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 9 | Government itself was rarely the active initiator in the move to criminalize immorality . |
| 10 | The Gore-Tex Climbing World Finals as this second British international competition was erroneously called , since it was merely the final round of a six competition series , was a great success , both from the organisational point of view and the paying spectator 's viewpoint . |
| 11 | Control was merely the essential prerequisite to constructive administration . |
| 12 | But the hatred was merely the other side of love , the element that darkened it , touching their passion with the hostility that made their lovemaking resemble fighting . |
| 13 | Increasingly referred to by its citizens as ‘ the Zone ’ , as it had been when it was merely the Soviet occupation zone , it has achieved no genuine separate identity or legitimacy . |
| 14 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 15 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 16 | If Scripture referred to the sun 's motion , and even to its standing still during the miracle of Joshua 's long day , this was merely the everyday language of common sense . |
| 17 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 20 | The main factor in yesterday 's currency trading was less the French decision to remove controls and more the underlying strength of the DM . |
| 21 | This was obviously the Great Controller In The Sky having a laugh . |
| 22 | To each the other stand seemed an irrelevance : a perverse trivialisation , a distraction from what was obviously the only serious moral question arising . |
| 23 | She was obviously the only person around , so I introduced myself and told her what my mission was . |
| 24 | However , I have always had an interest in gardening so this was obviously the ideal hobby , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | It was a large , tiled canteen and was obviously the main social gathering place for the troops . |
| 26 | The princes had obviously refused to select their prince as Phoenix King although he was obviously the rightful heir to Aenarion . |
| 27 | These works do not seem to have been widely read , and his reputation as an author now rests on his Thanksgivings , published as A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation Of the Mercies of God in 1699 ‘ at the request of a Friend of the Authors ’ , who was perhaps the devotional writer Susanna Hopton [ q.v. ] ; and on a number of manuscript works which have become known , in a remarkable series of discoveries , in the course of the twentieth century . |
| 28 | However , Attlee 's position was a complex one : he was more ready than anyone to criticize strategic arguments used to justify such expenditure , but was never willing to push the arguments to the extent of causing a serious rift with Bevin , who was perhaps the key minister in the government after Attlee . |
| 29 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 30 | And he he he he was perhaps the black sheep . |