Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outset the work of the Panel and Board was intensely time consuming . |
| 2 | To say it was effortfully hollow would have been an understatement . |
| 3 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 4 | She used to give them Pedigree Chum too , but it was mostly cat food . |
| 5 | How little Dana knew her ; the strength she admired was mostly window-dressing . |
| 6 | This was mostly afternoon and evening clothes . |
| 7 | It was mostly Crown land , divided into ‘ Rayles ’ ( enclosed areas for herding deer ) . |
| 8 | There was a novel before which was never published , and never will be because it was mostly autobiography and self-expression . |
| 9 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 10 | Towards 1540 , when earnings were certainly much lower , it was mostly fishing villages lik Bodinick and St Germans that looked poverty-stricken to Lelan , though the jottings of a tourist , primarily on the look-out for antiquities , hardly stand comparison with systematic investigations of Carew , a professional surveyor and a life-long student of local matters . |
| 11 | It was mostly material like this which was being dumped in the mid-Atlantic . |
| 12 | It was mostly East Grinstead in the second half with Leman being denied by Thompson twice and new England sensation Mahmood Bhatti shooting wide twice when well placed . |
| 13 | In my view , then , it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham 's . |
| 14 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 15 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 16 | Incidentally , Tommy had a dog of 57 varieties called Sammy who was predominantly Spaniel by looks and devoted to him . |
| 17 | The second was that the UK was effectively part of an increasingly competitive world market so that the monopoly power of the merged firms , and the corresponding social cost of the dead-weight burden , would be small . |
| 18 | However , the defendant 's argument that the list was effectively idea reflects the desirability of standardization in traffic controllers as , otherwise , there could be catastrophic mistakes . |
| 19 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |
| 20 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 21 | For Mum , life was fundamentally hell . |
| 22 | She could hear he was somewhere dose now , in the wood nearby . |
| 23 | She said it like it was somewhere south-east of Sodom . |
| 24 | In celebration of what was arguably mankind 's greatest achievement to put a man on the moon , Spaceprints is making you an offer which is too good to miss . |
| 25 | No but I mean the basis of it was presumably landlord out and China was based around this |
| 26 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 27 | When he woke , sweating and exhausted , with his heart thudding as though he had been running , it was properly morning . |
| 28 | Within many genera , there seemed to be little variation , but , within families , there was rarely uniformity , the two classes being : ( i ) large orange , yellow , brown or green fruits with a tough outer layer ; and ( ii ) small black , white , blue , purple or mixed colours , corresponding to mammal and bird ‘ syndromes ’ respectively . |
| 29 | That Jesus was personally kind to women there is no reason to doubt . |
| 30 | The company said the position would be kept under review , and if there was enough support it would run from Burntisland . ’ |