Example sentences of "[ex0] was [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was poor enough lighting in the street , and so many peculiar people … |
| 2 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 3 | There was that very nice place in Keswick where he 'd always longed to take a smart woman to stay a day or two . |
| 4 | Initially on that first night after the operation there was that very finite feeling : ‘ Oh my God I have cancer that means death . ’ |
| 5 | There was concrete underfoot , cracked but reasonably clear of vegetation . |
| 6 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 7 | I was soon to realize that there was much else , and at a far deeper level , to be learnt from this man I respectfully called Mr Rocke . |
| 8 | In addition , there was much else that needed doing . |
| 9 | A war was coming , that was obvious , and there was much forward planning for Sea Lion . ’ |
| 10 | There was much here to interest New Scientist customers — in particular a vivid portrayal of the unprecedented butchery visited on academe by the Thatcher government . |
| 11 | There was much more , but I have forgotten it now . |
| 12 | ‘ I was happy with the way I played and I do n't think there was much more I could have done , but my second serve was not good enough . |
| 13 | There was one rather large living-room , and a small bedroom , the door to which was covered by a curtain . |
| 14 | But there was one rather important difference : in classical criminology the criminal justice system , properly reformed , was seen as the means of reducing crime . |
| 15 | There was one rather serious minus in the countdown . |
| 16 | However , among the several people I had there was one rather unique fellow . |
| 17 | But anyway , this was the first we have such a conference every five years , but over a thousand of us sat around for a week and talked about evolution , and there was one rather curious fact about Vancouver , or the media of Vancouver , during that week . |
| 18 | It is no coincidence that a number of smaller mints are located at royal estate-centres , and there was one quite important mint at the palace — that is , within the king 's peripatetic household . |
| 19 | There was one very large unit of 120 sows , taking 1,100 pigs through to finishing ; the other units had 10–20 breeding sows and 180–400 fattening pigs . |
| 20 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 21 | She was getting ready to go out , however , when , in a flash of unwanted certainty , she knew that there was one very big reason why she should n't be attracted to Ven — because he was not attracted to her , and it was all one-sided , that was why ! |
| 22 | Yo do you there was one very bonny lass and she was on the er , they , they had erm composite programme the other the other week and she was on that again . |
| 23 | and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ? |
| 24 | See we 've run out of buns cos you had one yesterday and that makes one er , there was two there |
| 25 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
| 26 | Everybody w looking but when my father and all was there , there was nine then so there was more so we had to go in th in that big room there and eat off the table there then . |
| 27 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 28 | Carroll House apart , there was little else to cheer the British challengers , with the failure of Luca Cumani 's Kefaah in the Prix du Rond-Point providing perhaps the biggest disappointment . |
| 29 | While the Chiefs were largely as one in their dislike of Sandys and his methods , there was little else that united them : each had to do his best to preserve the interests of his own Service in the turbulence that hit the Whitehall market-place in 1957 . |
| 30 | His demeanour , intellect and ambition would suggest there was little else to satisfy him . |