Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
| 2 | When they were outside and walking towards the aircraft , Woolley said : ‘ The French make such a fuss , you see . |
| 3 | The idea of biology having important lessons for control is not new , but in this case the Sheffield group would have the willing and enthusiastic support of two control engineers — Harry Nicholson and Vince Femando — who were just as excited about the prospects for collaboration as their new biological colleagues . |
| 4 | When he completed his circumnavigation of the world , his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy . |
| 5 | The emphasis is on Europe and in July their bookings were more than doubled on the same month last year . |
| 6 | I disliked these two intensely and did n't like being told off for being rude to them , so I told her peevishly that I was n't staying while they were there and kicked off the slippers , put on my clogs and ran out banging the door behind me . |
| 7 | This was , in fact , still many months of fighting away , but with the loss of the northern territories , the die was all but cast for the Second Republic . |
| 8 | Clinton 's victory was all but assured by the youth vote . |
| 9 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 10 | In 1863 it was all but gutted by a disastrous fire , but mercifully the ashlar-faced east façade remained entirely intact with its projected balustraded bay , its shell-headed niches , its eccentric demonstration of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns in three tiers — all in Purbeck stone . |
| 11 | Her small-voiced reply was all but lost in the wind . |
| 12 | PPB was all but abandoned by the incoming Nixon administration and in 1973 the US government adopted a system of management by objectives ( MBO ) . |
| 13 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 14 | For a fleeting second as she crossed the floor Shannon was all but swamped by a feeling of panic that bade her run now , while she still had the chance . |
| 15 | Shannon was all but overwhelmed by the urge to slap his face — just who in sweet heaven did he think he was ? |
| 16 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 17 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 18 | The most serious problem remaining for 5 Corps was thus that posed by the approach of the main body of Croat troops ( reported as being 200,000 in number ) , accompanied by huge numbers of Croat civilians , who were attempting to escape into Austria via Dravograd , towards the small town of Bleiburg just inside the Austrian frontier . |
| 19 | I was just as engrossed in the sport 's literature . |
| 20 | The bathroom , having been converted from the front parlour , was downstairs and backed onto a small room at the rear of the cottage in which we kept the hoover , other cleaning materials and spares of this and that , such as light bulbs and rolls of loo paper . |
| 21 | At first , the expansion in student numbers was more than matched by the creation of new academic jobs . |
| 22 | When we hid a regular flow of sound , keen material and the PFF Navigation Training Unit was in full swing , we saw the steady development of tactics geared to the constant production of new and better " stores " — target indicators , hooded flares and many other innovations , all of which was more than matched by the improvement in navigational techniques . |
| 23 | The benefit of favourable exchange rates was more than offset by the adverse impact of weaker precious metal prices , particularly rhodium ( see page 21 ) . |
| 24 | The freeing of the five communists was more than balanced by the simultaneous release of four army colonels and 12 other officers who had been imprisoned for participating in coup attempts against the Aquino government . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |
| 26 | However , this was more than counterbalanced by the amount of matériel and troops shipped to the Nationalists by Germany , Italy and Portugal ; by the British and French prohibition on the sale of arms to the Republic ; and by the fact that many of the Soviet arms purchases never reached the Republic because they were destroyed in transit by enemy action or were retained in France . |
| 27 | His vote was more than halved in the party 's northern region , and nearly halved in both Yorkshire and the north-west . |
| 28 | He points to several factors supporting this conclusion : first , the patient was incapable of making a rational decision ; second , in his clinical judgment , further treatment was called for ; and third , the minor harm of proceeding without consent was more than outweighed by the major benefit , in his view , which was gained from his treatment . |
| 29 | The area of the Dalzell works was more than doubled by the end of 1883 , and Colvilles were well on the way to becoming the dominating force in the Scottish steel industry , a position which they retained to the end . |
| 30 | The state price offered for rice was more than doubled from the " patriotic contribution " level of 7 riel per kg to 15 riel per kg . |