Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burns , he said , were rarely the cause of death , though the resulting shock-induced pneumonia was . |
| 2 | Naturally there will be memories of matters you felt were entirely the fault of others . |
| 3 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 4 | For a long time , it seemed as if these were merely the ranting of a bitter exile . |
| 5 | It 's weird dimensions were merely the result of maximum usage of the available space and materials … it was punk and we loved it . |
| 6 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 7 | And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope . |
| 8 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 9 | He would come when he would come , and the Tabula Rasa would have to bide its time , though the longer he was away the more the likelihood grew of one of their number voicing the suspicion some of them surely nurtured : that Godolphin 's dealings in talismans and wantons were only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 10 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 11 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 12 | The morning celebrations were only the start of an eventful day for Napier University . |
| 13 | Those early ambitions have been achieved — and they were only the start . |
| 14 | However , the figures of 2,561 drivers humiliated for a 3.2 per cent return were only the average over the previous three years in Nottingham . |
| 15 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 16 | And if it were only the future of the Conservative Party that was at stake I would probably agree that electoral chastening would be a good thing . |
| 17 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 18 | Dexy 's Midnight Runners were perhaps the prototype for the new soul militancy of the eighties . |
| 19 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 20 | Officials in Moscow claimed that communist party buildings in Lithuania were rightfully the property of the Soviet Communist Party ( CPSU ) since the CPL 's declaration of independence in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 21 | The consequences of the declining importance of grants after the mid-1970s were obviously the opposite of the consequences of their former growth . |
| 22 | ‘ They were down the shelter … or out of the way , for once . ’ |
| 23 | By the time he 'd got inside , I 'd taken Martin 's arm and we were down the alley outside the Pontefract Castle just as the doors opened . |
| 24 | ‘ My first year at the club was tough when we were down the bottom of Division Two , but this is the biggest challenge I 've faced . |
| 25 | Large numbers of low assessments in certain districts , like the Forest of Dean , were generally the mark of a lower overall scale of wealth . |
| 26 | While these national liberation movements in the Third World were in theory modelled on the nationalism of the West , in practice the states they attempted to construct were generally the opposite of the ethnically and linguistically homogeneous entities which came to be seen as the standard form of ‘ nation- state ’ in the West . |
| 27 | You 're in your opinion what do you what were what were generally the motivation behind the girls becoming prostitutes , I mean was it |
| 28 | The remembered light on the empty hayfields would grow magical , the green shade of the beeches would give out a delicious coolness as they tasted again the sardines between slices of bread : when they were away the house would become the summer light and shade above their whole lives . |
| 29 | when you were not the holder |
| 30 | ‘ when you were not the holder ’ This was once difficult for the prosecution to prove as there were numerous local taxation offices which issued driving licences . |