Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recommendation most widely noticed was that full-time students should normally study a wider range of subjects — five A levels plus one AS level , rather than three A levels as at present . |
| 2 | The most widely spoken was Sinhala , the language of the majority community . |
| 3 | The most widely publicized was the murder of six Jesuit academics from the University of Central America in November 1989 . |
| 4 | For business people the question of what consumers wanted and how their products could be most effectively marketed was a vital one spelling the difference between success and failure . |
| 5 | The most keenly felt was a condition attached to a large scale loan from the International Monetary Fund in 1976 requiring a reduction of £1 billion in public expenditure to support the external value of sterling . |
| 6 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 7 | When Zita Hirschhorn heard her name , so little acquainted was she with all that was going on , she cried out : ‘ Ich bin verkauft ’ ( ‘ I am sold ’ ) . |
| 8 | The period you so fondly remember was dominated by activist and economically unschooled regulators and judges . |
| 9 | So highly regarded was the mistletoe , that it had to be cut with a golden knife . |
| 10 | And , so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more , that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome . |
| 11 | But so physically restricted was the Calais area , and so often was it under French pressure , that for long years at a time all the needs of the garrison , whether in provisions or materials , had to be shipped in from England . |
| 12 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
| 13 | So thoroughly buried was Herculaneum that a new town , Resina , has been built right on top of the old . |
| 14 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 15 | The area so far excavated was the size of a football pitch , and deep enough for three levels of laboratories and workshops that would be concrete-lined . |
| 16 | THE best sermon I have so far heard was on the subject of ‘ ontological anxiety ’ . |
| 17 | This usually involves over 1,000 birds , and the highest count so far recorded was of 1,535 in Chichester Harbour on 30 January 1972 . |
| 18 | The main difference between the races in the data so far discussed was that in the arrest rates of Blacks and Whites living in the same areas . |
| 19 | So far removed was it , both in time and in temper , from the realities of a large city parish and the growing bewilderment and tribulation that the first two decades of the new century had visited upon its inhabitants that his birthplace and its memories became as insubstantial as the tales of Cuchullain and the Red Branch Knights that he had read about in school . |
| 20 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 21 | The only consolation and the reason why Mrs Brodowitz was so well informed was that the man had been spotted by the military police and was now in prison . |
| 22 | So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ . |
| 23 | Reaction even against the political system with which it was so closely integrated was muted . |
| 24 | The widespread acceptance of the invariance proposition with which the rational expectations hypothesis was so closely associated was met with a variety of reactions : glacial disdain ; head scratching incredulity ; stony , deafening silence ; deep shock . |
| 25 | The date that was eventually generally accepted was 753 BC , originally suggested by Varro ( 116–27 BC ) . |
| 26 | It was , for example , the House of Lords which insisted upon the institution of conciliation machinery in the Race Relations Act 1965 , which experience elsewhere strongly suggested was the key to success but which the Commons had , strangely , omitted . |
| 27 | There are a number of treaties of guarantee where the entity most directly affected was not a party to the treaty . |
| 28 | Its impact on the public was enormous ; and among the figures it most deeply influenced was Albert Schweitzer . |
| 29 | But the one most deeply hurt was Rosie herself . |
| 30 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |