Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if the drivers had never visited London , they would have no excuse for mistaking the building ; the throng around it-was already twenty or thirty deep , spilling far over the pavement and into the street . |
| 2 | Her body-was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces , like a porcelain figure . |
| 3 | TNF α+; cells were also seen in Crohn 's granulomas and in the germinal centres of lymphoid follicles : the second were large CD3- cells and were presumably tingible body macrophages . |
| 4 | Wearing the portrait of a military or political leader upon a ring or on a coin mounted as a jewel was an obvious sign of allegiance ; other portraits of unknown individuals were presumably private commemorations . |
| 5 | The defendants at the time of the victims ' deaths were presumably unconscious and it is accordingly difficult to attribute to them any mens rea . |
| 6 | But this instance apart , there were presumably some official functions which the sites in this category possessed and which were physically concentrated within the defences and probably unrelated to local needs . |
| 7 | People who responded to the considerable demands of the questionnaire were presumably those who felt committed enough to do so . |
| 8 | They were presumably responsible for supervising the civil settlement outside the fort and , in particular , the Sarmatian veterans who had been granted land in its vicinity . |
| 9 | By his day the sort of German pressure on Denmark experienced by Harald Bluetooth was a thing of the past , for Henry was fully occupied with campaigns in Italy and Lotharingia , and especially against Cnut 's uncle Boleslav of Poland , and may have troubled little about Swegen and Cnut , who were presumably happy to leave the Germans largely to their own devices while they were subjugating England . |
| 10 | The fines for these licences were uniformly trifling , implying that they were obtainable without difficulty . |
| 11 | While the barriers between the Boundary Drive gardens were uniformly low , the hedges and fences which separated the bottoms of the gardens from those of the houses behind were generally much higher . |
| 12 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 13 | That said , the car felt extremely solid and well screwed together , exterior panel gaps were uniformly narrow and even and all the doors shut with a satisfying ‘ thunk ’ . |
| 14 | Until the late 1970s these organisms were uniformly sensitive to therapeutically useful antibiotics . |
| 15 | There is an important point here : ancient accounts of Greek relations with Carthage often treat her as a barbarian power whose dealings with the Greeks were uniformly hostile . |
| 16 | It would be impossible , therefore , to construct a rule that would frame the ambit of management discretion in such a way as to ensure that the members ' varying expectations were uniformly satisfied . |
| 17 | Yes , she had to concede that the gentleman 's exterior qualities were uniformly pleasing . |
| 18 | The Chester traincrew concerned were duly relieved about 11.15 am and hitched a lift onto the LM shed from the station . |
| 19 | Callaghan and some of the CBI , at least , were duly impressed . |
| 20 | They were duly impressed . |
| 21 | I do n't remember ever being afraid , and I would boast of my nocturnal activities to a few close friends , who were duly impressed . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr. Ross goes lieutenant into one of them if he can pass his examination on the morrow ’ , Keith informed his sister , and it would seem that the examining board were duly impressed by their admiral 's anxiety , for they took a chance on this doubtful candidate . |
| 23 | Then we make a tour of the commune — we visited a secondary school ( altho the children were away , it being Sunday ) and were duly impressed by what had been achieved , esp . |
| 24 | ‘ The killings were duly lawful and the defence acting for us will be making that point . ’ |
| 25 | Perpetrators were overwhelmingly male . |
| 26 | The definitions and examples were sexist , and the sources were overwhelmingly male . |
| 27 | Living in the northern cities , they had a deep commitment to the radical wing of the Liberal Party and were overwhelmingly nonconformist in religion . |
| 28 | ‘ We put the contract out to tender and were overwhelmingly impressed by Bookpoint , ’ Mr Webb said . |
| 29 | This was important at a time when outvoters were a larger group in many constituencies than the size of the majority and when the outvoters were overwhelmingly Unionist . |
| 30 | There were 200 seats with a substantial middle-class element , and these were overwhelmingly Unionist at each election between the wars . |