Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinions were rather divided over the effectiveness of other strategies and sanctions such as setting extra work or detention . |
| 2 | Wickham thought that a weak defence and said : ‘ The Linleys were rather disturbed by the incident … ’ |
| 3 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 4 | The dishes he filled seemed indistinguishable to my eye from run-of-the-mill cottage pie except they were rather blacker round the edges than is normal , and they were accompanied by the garnish of a quarter of a raw tomato , two cucumber slices , a sprinkling of cress ( or maybe lawn clippings ) , and a tired , pre-chewed lettuce leaf without which no British pub meal is complete these days . |
| 5 | In those days the Fellows of Corpus were rather proud of the briskness of their conversation . |
| 6 | ‘ You were rather mean by the way to tell everyone I spoke to — or was about to speak to — not to talk any more to Scotland Yard . |
| 7 | Among the more doctrinally united Baptists some conservatives were rather defensive by the end of the century and accepted the need for a middle course between ‘ exaggerated and ill-directed individualism ’ on the one hand and ‘ exaggerated and ill-directed socialism , on the other . |
| 8 | Social class patterns of ‘ ideal ’ family size were rather uniform in the 1960s ( Woolf 1971 ) . |
| 9 | As he put it : " We were rather cross at the time that all the torches back on the shore spoilt our chances of photographing the moon . " |
| 10 | ‘ We were rather angry in the beginning to have heard it off the radio . |
| 11 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 12 | Well since nineteen forty-five , in the Federal Republic of Germany , there is very little difference essentially between the educational system erm there and the educational system in this country , for very obvious reasons , I think the western Allies simply imposed their values , their educational systems among other things , on the West Germans , who were rather reluctant at the time to accept it , but have grown to love those values and arguably are now as good if not better at preserving them than we are . |
| 13 | It was all very well for the intellectuals to associate the movies with the mindless masses , but the masses who went to cinemas in the 1920s were rather different from the masses who had so enthused about films twenty years earlier . |
| 14 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 15 | According to this record landowners were rather thin on the ground , a little more than one in ten of all persons listed in Rutland , and fewer than one-quarter in Buckinghamshire , a county of contrasts . |
| 16 | Within Kufra they were conspicuously absent from the extensive public housing scheme , from public employment and from the retail and wholesale trading sector . |
| 17 | The vigour and enthusiasm of the CCP were conspicuously absent in the NKLP . |
| 18 | Last night , you were dead set against the idea . ’ |
| 19 | The ‘ property world ’ , ‘ financial landowners ’ and finance capital in general , were keenly interested in the development opportunities offered by the reconstruction of the UK 's Victorian town centres . |
| 20 | We were eventually married in the spring of 1946 , in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence . |
| 21 | Referral patterns among fundholders and non-fundholders were strikingly similar after the implementation of the NHS reforms . |
| 22 | Like most true Cornishmen , the Arundells were staunchly Royalist during the troubles , and the sixth Sir John was killed at Plymouth while charging at the head of his troop in 1643 . |
| 23 | Five weeks later , on 13 November , Southey and Edith Fricker were secretly married in the same church , Southey setting off almost immediately afterwards to spend six months with his uncle in Portugal , leaving Edith behind . |
| 24 | Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment . |
| 25 | But they could also be used to reward courtiers who were wholly inexperienced in the work , or to turn life tenures into hereditary ones . |
| 26 | Headhunting 1960s-style tended to make consultants feel conspiratorial , shady and slightly suspect even if , like Young , they were wholly convinced of the ultimate value of executive search to a company 's efficiency and performance . |
| 27 | One of Acheson 's biographers has argued that Americans , having never understood the realities of the Chinese situation , were wholly unprepared for the deluge of hate and vituperation which descended on them from Peking once the Chinese People 's Republic had been established . |
| 28 | Is it not extraordinary that the Leader of the Opposition is incapable of understanding that we might frequently find that monetary and interest rate policies were wholly inappropriate to the requirements of this country if we join a single European currency ? |
| 29 | Steel frames were widely available in the 1930s , but these early frames were liable to rust and could soon look tacky . |
| 30 | Conditions were little better for the Germans . |