Example sentences of "[adv] was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One who came out into the open after having lost his political way somewhat was former premier Bazargan . |
| 2 | Opposite was another room , smaller , that looked out the back . |
| 3 | How long was that ? |
| 4 | And how long was this measure , designed to embrace the principles of 48 pages of white paper and some 68 pages of analysis in two specially-commissioned Price Waterhouse reports ? |
| 5 | And how long was this measure , designed to embrace the principles of 48 pages of white paper and some 68 pages of analysis in two specially-commissioned Price Waterhouse reports ? |
| 6 | How long was this fencing going to continue . |
| 7 | ‘ And how long was this before you were attacked ? ’ |
| 8 | She wanted to say that not only was that ridiculous but it was dangerous , she wanted to tell him about the frightening minutes in the maze of old Nice . |
| 9 | Although the Labour Party — then in opposition — declared its disagreement with the underlying principles of the bill , the tone and level of the debates about immigration cemented the belief that not only was such legislation desirable from all political perspectives , it was also inevitable that it should be brought in . |
| 10 | Not only was this untrue but it was a very foolish piece of disinformation , since Stokes Bay is a good three miles away from where Crabb was last seen alive . |
| 11 | Not only was this St Vitus ' Day , but the ascent of Leo was in the appropriate conjunction with the sun and Saturn , and the date and time of 1357.9.7.5.31 was deemed numerically prophetic . |
| 12 | Not only was this excellent value but it provided , for the first time , the full breadth and vision of The Smiths on album format . |
| 13 | Not only was this unhygienic but it was most uncomfortable for me , being in close proximity to him . |
| 14 | Now here 's the frightening part : not only was this maniac young , fairly tall , immensely broad and strong , and unbelievably savage and violent , but he was also able to run with amazing speed . |
| 15 | Not only was this behaviour upsetting for anyone hearing it , but it gave my walking partner and I quite a scare . |
| 16 | Not only was this the only way , according to d'Argenlieu , to stop a Vietminh that was determined to oust the French but , in effect , it would be the only way to hold the French Union together . |
| 17 | Not only was this good news for TV science fiction it was also good news for the BBC , at a time when they were beginning to feel the effects of an increasingly powerful competitor — ITV . |
| 18 | The dwellings were often damp as a result of their situation ; not only was this chosen to please the owner 's eye , but the cottage was sometimes actually sunk in the earth , in order to preserve a humble outline . |
| 19 | Not only was this the evidence of a wonderful and mysterious world in which I had no place , I was being given the chance to destroy the evidence . |
| 20 | Not only was this group on the increase but it embraced a complete cross section of society . |
| 21 | For some teachers not only was this difficult to plan and implement as an organizational strategy per se , but the increased demands imposed on them by the strategy meant that their opportunities for systematic and sustained monitoring of children 's progress were further reduced , while at the same time the increased levels of movement and disturbance in the classroom might adversely affect children 's concentration and time on task . |
| 22 | Soames spluttered like a malfunctioning Scud : not only was this biased journalism , he fumed , but ‘ frankly , disloyal ’ . |
| 23 | By the mid 1960s , not only was this area experiencing acidities less than pH 4.0 but the area of acid precipitation with values below pH 4.5 had expanded to include most of East and West Germany , northern France , eastern England and southern Scandinavia . |
| 24 | Not only was this man overbearing ; he was arrogant too . |
| 25 | he says all the blood and everything all was all |
| 26 | The interest of psychiatrists was aroused , and so was that of biochemists . |
| 27 | So was that individual Mafia , the local Quakers . |
| 28 | So was that what Johnny had done , fifty years ago ; or was doing now , depending on which way you looked at it ? |
| 29 | So was that the convergence theory ? |
| 30 | So was that first baler belong to this chap in Kirkwall ? |