Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably that was why the kitchen door been left open — to get enough light from the kitchen . |
| 2 | Presumably that was why permission was given to the young lady to pose suggestively within the club 's portals . ’ |
| 3 | So presumably that was quite a popular piece of er legislation ? |
| 4 | His most endearing was how loving he was at the start . |
| 5 | But it transpired eventually that was n't the only reason . |
| 6 | Neville Cardus wrote , ‘ Bradman did little that was more wonderful and so highly charged with his own force of character than his dazzling improvisation , his neck-to-nothing brilliance , in the face of the ruthless challenge of Jardine . ’ |
| 7 | Luckily that was quickly detected by alarms . |
| 8 | Her father , having been an Oxford don , doubtless had a library of some kind , and presumably this was not dispersed after his death . |
| 9 | The most northerly was apparently undivided , though only its southern ditch lay within the excavated area . |
| 10 | The most popular was undoubtedly the stripping policewoman or traffic warden — always good for a laugh among London 's paranoia-ravaged motorists . |
| 11 | Sometimes I thought that what was so outstanding was how he taught rather than what he taught , but then one realised that the two were inseparable in their effect , that this was the quality of the medium who spoke to each one of us who was present but who did not selfishly intervene . |
| 12 | Then suddenly that was not enough . |
| 13 | From there the SAS returned to Kabrit , where Stirling found much that was not to his liking . |
| 14 | But it gave me satisfaction and comforted me for much that was otherwise missing from my life . |
| 15 | It rapidly instituted one under the New Deal administrations of Franklin Roosevelt , however , despite the problems of Federal initiative in what was deemed by the Constitution to be an area of State responsibility , plus the challenges to the legality of much that was initially proposed and enacted . |
| 16 | The Crown was dependent upon Parliament for its important legislation and for much that was less significant too . |
| 17 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |
| 18 | Four lots of three I have n't got time to write that down that was very quick . |
| 19 | Though , as he himself realised , with a hypochondriacal mother , a sister who committed suicide , an uncle who lived ‘ like King Ludwig II of Bavaria ’ and a paranoid cousin who died in an asylum , perhaps that was not surprising . |
| 20 | And perhaps that was not very far at all . |
| 21 | Perhaps that was not the ideal place to lodge her . |
| 22 | He had never recovered his position at court ( perhaps that was not surprising , given the rumours that linked his name with Judith 's in 830 ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps that was why people who talked to themselves usually had an abstracted smile : they had accepted they were stark raving mad , loony tunes , round the twist . |
| 24 | Perhaps that was why … surely she had not wetted herself ? |
| 25 | Perhaps His seal of approval was never quite so firmly over this operation as it was over the contras ; perhaps that was why he needed to be importuned . |
| 26 | perhaps that was why . |
| 27 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |
| 28 | Perhaps that was why she still thought they were alive . |
| 29 | Perhaps that was why Father Devlin had volunteered to act as match-maker , preferring to have him married rather than have him fornicate , as he had in the past , with the tinker women passing through the district . |
| 30 | Her accent reminded Paula of Louise — perhaps that was why she warmed to her in spite of the fact that she was so awe-inspiring . |