Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blow , blow thou Winter wynd , thou wert not so unkind as man 's ingratitude ! |
| 2 | Lodovico gives an external judgement on him that is essentially right : ‘ O thou Othello , that wert once so good , /Fallen in the practice of a damned slave ’ ( 293f . ) . |
| 3 | Although the colliery communities -were never really associated with the cult of respectability , which was so important in dividing the " rough " from the " respectable " working class in Victorian England , nevertheless the pit brow women were regarded as a moral threat . |
| 4 | Our isolates of E coli were from the rectal mucosa and were presumably closely associated with , if not actually attached to , the epithelium ; loosely adherent bacteria were removed from the tissue by the vigorous washing procedure . |
| 5 | Others , such as the fault that let down the great thickness of Mesozoic in Cardigan Bay ( to the west of Wales ) must have been much later , though they served to define basins that were presumably already there . |
| 6 | But the appointments were presumably also made on the assumption that the men concerned could be relied upon to obey Gloucester rather than the Woodvilles , an assumption which , during the protectorate , seems to have been vindicated . |
| 7 | But the appointments were presumably also made on the assumption that the men concerned could be relied upon to obey Gloucester rather than the Woodvilles , an assumption which , during the protectorate , seems to have been vindicated . |
| 8 | Furthermore , earlier studies of patients with duodenal ulcer disease , who were presumably mostly infected , showed their parietal cells to be , if anything more sensitive to gastrin than those of controls , although it was not known whether the controls were infected with H pylori . |
| 9 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 10 | People were presumably far too busy at the time , and the principal workers have now died . |
| 11 | These activities were presumably far more common than the evidence so far suggests , given the widespread use of leather . |
| 12 | Adam said he did n't , he meant myopotamus , which in turn meant coypu that were presumably now in the process of being exterminated , whereupon Mary burst into shouts of anger and distress , calling him a cruel beast and an enemy of ecology . |
| 13 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 14 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
| 15 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 16 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 17 | The trouble was that neither of them was entirely certain he was right , and the funny thing was that people who were n't entirety certain they were right always argued much louder than other people , as if the main person they were trying to convince was themselves . |
| 18 | In between the ladies and the gents ( matches I mean ) we were ushered to private rooms , where , beneath striped awnings , we were right royally entertained to a distinguished tea . |
| 19 | No I know you were right now , cos I have n't seen it but grandma says it was new |
| 20 | And yet they were right of course , they were right enough it , it never came again completely as it , noth nothing stay the same . |
| 21 | One moment they denounce the war and claim Mr Milosevic 's U-turn shows they were right all along . |
| 22 | Only after years of dogged activity by tenants backing up their own experiences with systematic surveys , did local authorities bring in the experts , and the tenants were right all along : they were living in leaking , sweating , unstable structures . |
| 23 | ‘ So you were right all along , ’ she murmured . |
| 24 | By the time George got his gun out , they were right there , on us . |
| 25 | Yeah were right then that might push us back towards the Platonic view , that some people are more . |
| 26 | They were rather unpleasantly self-satisfied for a start — and this was not incompatible with the impression made on him by the man himself at their meeting . |
| 27 | On the extreme eastern boundary of the parish , however , where the church and vicarage were rather oddly placed , a number of small terrace houses had been bought up by speculative builders , gutted , modernised , and sold at high prices to people who wanted small houses that were almost in town but could not afford the more fashionable districts of Islington , St John 's Wood or Hampstead . |
| 28 | In the more ethnically uniform Berlin the Jews were rather clearly the other nationality . |
| 29 | At that time , we were rather badly off . ’ |
| 30 | It would appear , therefore , that without the support of a permanent committee several of the Minor Project initiatives were rather narrowly based in terms of key personnel . |