Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bergère he motioned her to sit on was plumply comfortable . |
| 2 | The conditions laid down were therefore designed to differentiate the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition , and to make it clear that the National Government was not intended , as the Lloyd George coalition had been , to lead to a permanent realignment of the party system . |
| 3 | That 's how Harold Wilson got in was n't it . |
| 4 | The street Nevil lived in was n't nearly as nice as the McNairs ' . |
| 5 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 6 | My driving on was not a blind impulse , for I had reasons to stop with which I would have justified myself had I done so , but I discounted them in favour of other reasons for continuing . |
| 7 | However , the fact that the war could not be won outright was gradually sapping public confidence in the political objective of " French Algeria " . |
| 8 | Just waiting for your boy friend to come in were n't you ? |
| 9 | Oh yes , her voice was good , but voice alone was n't enough in operetta . |
| 10 | What had come through was not quite a complete Terry Place , but one substantially still himself He remained in the intensive care unit of the local hospital and under police guard . |
| 11 | An assignment of a deposit , in whole or in part , made while a bank is trading normally was not struck down . |
| 12 | It was the same hexagonal design as any of the thousands you can still see along the South Coast or that you suddenly come across in the wilds of East Anglia for no apparent reason until you realize that the fields you 're driving through were once airfields littered with empty Lucky Strike packets and B52 bombers . |
| 13 | The model we used above was very simple in that the manager , in effect , had only to toss the coin to determine the outcome . |
| 14 | The second time I tried to come off was when I went to stay with me sister and I took her DFs and just stayed in , y'know . |
| 15 | that were a very good send off were n't it for me ? |
| 16 | If anything happened at light you 'd be mixed up were n't you ? |
| 17 | Oh that was almost a classic build up was n't it ? |
| 18 | After the terrible decades of Cold War and such near approaches to Hot War as the Cuba crisis , after decades in which the whole of Eastern Europe was a remote and hostile armed camp , the sudden thaw in which all of Europe seemed caught up was more than a political event . |
| 19 | Mm I think the thing with that was it was to some extent clouded before was n't it ? |
| 20 | A man who left his tropical fish ‘ home alone ’ when he moved out was today cleared by Berkshire magistrates of abandoning them . |
| 21 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 22 | For many years these agencies operated free of any congressional oversight and , while many members of Congress clearly preferred not to know what they were doing , any attempts that were made to find out were firmly rebuffed . |
| 23 | The checks that were carried out were not particularly rigorous and did not in fact tend to reveal abuse . |
| 24 | The grounds under which abortion could legally be carried out were greatly widened by the Abortion Act of 1967 , although these stop short of the ‘ abortion on demand ’ available in several other countries . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is possible to argue that in both the fields of child language and acquired disorders the earliest studies to be carried out were almost exclusively concerned with production . |
| 26 | The rate of liver protein synthesis in patients with non-metastatic colonic carcinoma reported here was not significantly different from the rate documented in patients with benign disease of the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 27 | Long and low , with transept towers and a vaulted nave , the building as it stands today was largely the work of Bishop Grandison of Exeter , a ‘ magnificent and diligent prelate ’ who ruled over the diocese in the fourteenth century . |
| 28 | But just how this sudden demise had come about was even more sinister . |
| 29 | The two microphone techniques mentioned earlier were then rivals , and professional engineers and amateurs could not easily switch from one to the other , much less judge absolute fidelity . |
| 30 | Scattered about was exactly the sort of clutter you found in the parish church : holy pictures of saints , missals , rosaries , little bottles of holy water . |