Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were right the eel tipped the scales at 2lb 2oz for best of the day ! |
| 2 | Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 . |
| 3 | Burns , he said , were rarely the cause of death , though the resulting shock-induced pneumonia was . |
| 4 | Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies . |
| 5 | Well they were mostly the Clydesdale but oh there were some light horses in it too . |
| 6 | Naturally there will be memories of matters you felt were entirely the fault of others . |
| 7 | In the case of Chinn v Hochstrasser 54 TC 311 at 351 and 357 , the Court of Appeal held that an appointment by the trustees of a settlement under a special power did not contain an element of bounty since they were merely the agents of a settlor whose bounty had been exhausted on the creation of the settlement . |
| 8 | Colonel Smith had been the thief , with Trent 's habit of loyalty as the accomplice ; the Latinos were merely the instruments , Trent thought as he looked across at the thick shape of Pedro Gomez seated on the windward side of the cockpit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For a long time , it seemed as if these were merely the ranting of a bitter exile . |
| 11 | It 's weird dimensions were merely the result of maximum usage of the available space and materials … it was punk and we loved it . |
| 12 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 13 | And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope . |
| 14 | From the respectable view , these rogues were merely the dregs of civilization — potentially dangerous , it is true , but in no way a part of the true social order . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This methodology unfortunately confounds proximity to the actual events with arousal since the most stressed witnesses were naturally the ones most closely involved in the incident . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were only the cases that have been uncovered . |
| 19 | And these were only the London evenings . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Er those were only the setups o as a result of breaking something else down and putting this bearing on . |
| 22 | The filing-cabinets ran in all directions , and these were only the cards and the photographs . |
| 23 | There were only the crickets shrilling away to themselves in the bushes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We girls were only the workhorses really — we read the instruments , plotted the charts , made the tea and kept the office clean , and were not meant to be able to give a weather forecast . |
| 26 | The morning celebrations were only the start of an eventful day for Napier University . |
| 27 | Those early ambitions have been achieved — and they were only the start . |
| 28 | All this could not have been achieved without Macintosh computers , but again , they were only the means to an end . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |