Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment of entering the Workhouse the expectation of life for most was a matter of weeks or even days . |
| 2 | In appearance everything had been altered since then , and — so far as looks went — much for the better , but nearly everything he cared about most was enshrined in these earliest recollections . |
| 3 | His hot hands branding her flesh for evermore was the very worst punishment of all . |
| 4 | The only magnate who kept his place unchallenged for long was the prince himself . |
| 5 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 6 | Her life was uneventful , so that what she thought about naturally was what she saw with her eyes , or in her mind 's eye . |
| 7 | For tonight was the eve of battle : the great battle , the one they had all hoped , nay known , would take place one day . |
| 8 | The nineteen twenty six strike , the o the thing that struck me most of all was , they were going to out the railway men . |
| 9 | Some tests done in was n't there , in one of those prisons , and I think they tried with very violent , very aggressive er , prisoners there , and it , they eventually found that the colours that calmed them down most of all was pink . |
| 10 | All it was first of all was a little graze on top of the skin . |
| 11 | erm when you lot out there first of all was n't there ? moved on . |
| 12 | But the , er Bernard you must admit the best one of all was the , the full works of the Encyclo Brittannia falling on her head ! |
| 13 | But the funniest thing of all was that the flat she was going in , the floor area was less than the one she 'd left . |
| 14 | But the one I like best of all was about Sir Francis Chichester , who circumcised the globe |
| 15 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 16 | Most of Yonder was new , housing estates , schools , shops , small businesses and offices , and not entirely approved of by the original residents of the village . |
| 17 | ‘ As surely as the woman of yesterday was born to ride in a limousine , the woman of today was born to ride in an aeroplane ’ pronounced Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 18 | That she was inclined to be impulsive , that the hurt of yesterday was easily forgotten under the blinding optimism that tomorrow would bring the fulfilment of her dreams . |
| 19 | good morning ladies and gentlemen the three main items I got out of yesterday was the er structured thought patterns the cluster and the playback |
| 20 | Again , though , there were some things which she was not well enough acquainted with him to mention — especially now that she knew who her Good Samaritan of yesterday was . |
| 21 | It is equally clear that the antonym of namely was not confined to a class of medrese , as in all likelihood was , or came to be , but had a much wider usage as an essentially geographical term . |
| 22 | This was further reduced in subsequent weeks until the target time of 7.30pm was reached . |
| 23 | The security of both was the promise of a large proportion of the land after the drainage operation had been successfully completed . |
| 24 | Of particular importance was the eucharist , which involved the miracle of transubstantiation ; since the twelfth century , the Catholic church had argued that , although the ‘ accidents ’ ( or external appearance ) of the bread and wine remained unchanged during the mass , the substance of both was turned by the priest at the moment of consecration into the body and blood of Christ . |
| 25 | Part and parcel of both was his confrontation of the USSR on all fronts , but especially in the arms race . |
| 26 | The use of both was greatest in both declining and growing ( as opposed to stable ) firms , and this was taken as evidence for the view that it is firms facing fluctuating demand for output that make greatest use of temporary workers . |
| 27 | To discriminate clearly between various L1 containing cell types in the same section , five step three colour staining was performed as follows : ( a ) monoclonal antibody to either eosinophil cationic protein or neutrophil elastase or a mix of both was first applied ; ( b ) biotinylated horse anti-mouse IgG ; ( c ) mix of FITC-labelled Streptavidin , monoclonal antibody to CD68 , and unconjugated antiserum to L1 ; ( d ) biotinylated horse anti-mouse IgG ; and ( e ) AMCA-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG mixed with Streptavidin Texas Red . |
| 28 | ‘ As surely as the woman of yesterday was born to ride in a limousine , the woman of today was born to ride in an aeroplane ’ pronounced Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 29 | From then onwards , Winterthur 's development into the city of today was rapid . |
| 30 | A Sheffield bound CMU speeds past Deepcar on 14th May 1982 , the final day before rerouting took place and the line north of here was finally closed for good . |