Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VOLPONE : 'Fore heav'n , a brave clarissimo ; thou becomest it ! pity thou wert not born one . |
| 2 | These statements-were then considered by ministers and senior civil servants who then made decisions which were implemented . |
| 3 | The new owner — a man on his own , gossip said , a wealthy man-was plainly moving in . |
| 4 | The different degrees and sources of political power of the hospital consultants on the one hand and the general practitioners on the other were skilfully exploited by Bevan in setting up the NHS . |
| 5 | Even if the insults were skilfully repaid with interest . |
| 6 | Elongated single-aspect plans with hall-corridors on the entrance front were introduced to ensure even greater privacy from callers and servants , private wings were stepped back to create private sheltered garden areas , and the kitchen and staple offices were skilfully deployed at right angles to the main block to create sheltered L-plan forecourts . |
| 7 | These , built as defences against the Viking invaders , are accredited to the Iron Age and were skilfully constructed to a circular plan , with a double wall enclosing a stairway and a circular paddock for cattle . |
| 8 | The fifteen acres of nursery were skilfully planned . |
| 9 | New tees lurked in the trees on several holes , and were skilfully placed to bring into play the same hazards which threatened the club players from their tees . |
| 10 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 11 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 12 | Its somewhat irregular shape and measurements were presumably counteracted as the building rose above ground level . |
| 13 | It is easy enough to identify features that are likely to provoke laughter and were presumably intended to do so amongst the common attributes of the fabliaux . |
| 14 | As the pitch patterns were presumably dictated by Elgar 's ‘ secret ’ melody , we can safely assume that his invention , and indeed the beauty of his creation , lay almost entirely in his construction . |
| 15 | The various fittings associated with the handle rarely survive as they were presumably made from organic materials . |
| 16 | Both men were presumably accompanied by their brothers , since Robert Harrington and John Parr were later knighted by Edward at Tewkesbury , and Thomas Parr died at Barnet . |
| 17 | Both men were presumably accompanied by their brothers , since Robert Harrington and John Parr were later knighted by Edward at Tewkesbury , and Thomas Parr died at Barnet . |
| 18 | But you were presumably feeling not well before then ? |
| 19 | Our Flag printed New Year messages in 1914 from Lansdowne , Bonar Law , Selborne , Austen Chamberlain , Long , Carson , Smith , Steel-Maitland , Lord Edmund Talbot , and George Younger , in that order ; the last three were presumably included as Party Chairman , Chief Whip and Scottish Whip , but the rest of the list may be taken as indicative of a rough order of precedence at that time . |
| 20 | They were found in Rome , where they were presumably brought in antiquity . |
| 21 | He invited scores of congressmen and journalists , civic officials and academics to visit Iran and made sure they were lavishly received and entertained . |
| 22 | Even accompanying pets were lavishly treated . |
| 23 | Religion was the only subject treated by the Khmer artists of the Angkor period : temples were lavishly embellished with sculptures of gods and goddesses , and bridges represented the rainbows that united people and their gods . |
| 24 | The lay-out was traditional and mirrored that of the old medieval cathedral , but both exterior and interior were lavishly decorated with classical arches and columns , and the whole building was dominated by a vast classical dome , which rose almost to the height of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral , one of the tallest Gothic buildings in Europe . |
| 25 | Despite minority reservations , Moody and Sankey were rapturously received in 1874 in Inverness , Campbeltown and Oban after international success in Edinburgh and Glasgow to mention but Scotland . |
| 26 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 27 | In the free industrial zones , trade unions were unofficially banned and the government refused to recognize the unions that were formed , although they fulfilled the legal requirements . |
| 28 | Although the basal lamina remained visible at many places , the gastric pits of vehicle pretreated rats were uniformly filled with gastric glands ( Figs 5E and F ) . |
| 29 | The needs of war , however , were clear cut . |
| 30 | Job evaluation , however , was an ideal application for the use of interactive computing during negotiations in that : ( i ) the issues were clear cut and technical ( no elements of pure judgement , such as the value of a cooperation clause , were present , for example ) ; ( ii ) several different facets of the outcome were important ( grade specific rates of upgrading being relevant , not merely the overall upgrading figure ; the effect on individual formations , not just the overall position ) making manual calculations particularly slow and cumbersome . |