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Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1	Here , Mrs Pettifer began to interject but the small gentleman silenced her with a flap of the wrist which was altogether not very gentlemanly and proved too much for the great lady detective who made a more purposeful interjection of her own .
2	Kenrick Wynne-Jones was altogether less turbulent He understood the art of getting along with politicians , and found a power base for himself through friendship with the Labour leaders of the day from the North , such as Ted short and Lord Glenamara .
3	There was altogether less to be frightened of .
4	He was altogether too dignified and courteous for the rough and tumble of politics , was not a good debater , and left after less than eighteen months .
5	He was altogether too good .
6	That was altogether too brazen .
7	It was bad enough he himself trying to turn into an amateur psychiatrist or psychotherapist or whatever they liked to call themselves , but to have some strange layman taking an interest in his wife , or his wife 's case , was altogether too much .
8	Molly Malone 's smile was altogether too smug , Lucinda considered bleakly .
9	And besides , he was altogether too attractive , too sure of his masculinity , and it unnerved her .
10	She knew that she ought to be paying some attention to the rest of the class but she was altogether too excited to let the matter rest .
11	This was altogether too public , and too dangerous .
12	He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first .
13	The Swiss money-laundering network run for Monzer al-Kassar by Arman Haser and the Magharian brothers was altogether too valuable an asset for the Syrians to have left unprotected .
14	‘ You know , Harry , when I met Dr Kingdom , it seemed to me he was altogether too self-possessed to be true .
15	At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture , but a payment of two rhinu left them astoundedly agreeing that perhaps He was n't as holy as all that .
16	He was too old now and the whole thing was altogether too complicated .
17	It was altogether too much .
18	There was no doubt that Grunte was altogether too much of a bad thing , but it was not the Party Chairman 's task to get rid of him .
19	Out of the corner of his eye , because up here there was altogether too much outside to look at , Dorcas saw flashing lights on the main road , far away .
20	He was altogether too expert at drawing confidences .
21	He was altogether too appealing when he did that , and he was probably well aware of it .
22	With a feeling of despair she knew there was altogether too much about him that attracted her , that made her want to respond .
23	He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him .
24	The second was altogether more clever : McDonald isolated and an offside trap jammed by a pass that Alan Pardew collected before shooting diagonally past Southall .
25	The announcement of the executive election results minutes later was altogether more dramatic .
26	Compared with Vogelsang , reveille in Nijmegen was altogether more civilised .
27	George Bernard Shaw was altogether more worldly-wise , observing that ‘ all professions are conspiracies against the laity , ’ and while they affected contempt for the medieval craft guilds , with their closed shops , the professions were in reality based upon very similar principles .
28	During the 1950s the public image of science was altogether more positive ; science was providing solutions to society 's greatest needs .
29	The third , from a young man in Birmingham , was altogether more disturbing .
30	The white press of Kenya had a far larger market to attract and was altogether more viable : a considerable number of Kenyan newspapers and magazines were readily available in Tanganyika .