Example sentences of "was [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was intensely and justifiably proud of his family , which in his own generation produced a viceroy , a general , an admiral , a Lord of Appeal , a High Court judge and a famous actor . |
| 2 | The rumbling in Mathers 's chest was gravelly and deep . |
| 3 | Seemingly valid claims by the Los Angeles County that such a proposal was economically and politically unrealistic contributed to undermining the EPA 's demands for maintaining strict attainment deadlines . |
| 4 | President Carlos Saúl Menem began an official 10-day visit to France and Belgium on Feb. 12 , continuing the efforts of his government to project the image of a new Argentina which was economically and politically stable and could be regarded by the West as its most reliable ally in Latin America [ for Menem 's November 1991 US tour see p. 38572 ] . |
| 5 | Franco 's refusal to recognize that autarchy was economically and politically untenable was due partly to his belief that liberal democracy could not bring economic well-being , and partly to his lack of understanding of the complexities of economic policy-formulation . |
| 6 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 7 | This second phase ( 1945–56 ) must in turn be contrasted with the post-1956 , post-Stalinist phase during which the credibility of the Zhdanov line was slowly but irreversibly undermined , and the centre of gravity of Marxist cultural activity shifted away from orthodox socialist realism to a variety of experiments involving linkages between revolutionary politics and formalist experimentation at the level of imaginative writing , and between Marxist theory and innovations in the human sciences at the level of critical analysis . |
| 8 | Gazing into grey eyes that seemed incredibly gentle and soft , she forgot all about his reasons for being there , forgot everything except this infuriating giant who was slowly but surely destroying her peace of mind , ‘ Why ? ’ she whispered . |
| 9 | When he did rise in the chair it was slowly and grudgingly and he followed McQuaid out into the stone hallway as if he were finding it difficult to walk or move . |
| 10 | Nonconformity was slowly and unevenly moving towards the idea of a worshipping community as well as a gathered audience eager to hear the Gospel preached . |
| 11 | When she spoke again it was slowly and with great emphasis . |
| 12 | She bit her lip , feeling the tension curling in hot little spirals in her stomach as she realised that once again he was slowly and insistently drawing her into one of those disturbingly intimate conversations . |
| 13 | She refused to flinch , or back away , even though she was uneasily and acutely aware that his broad and mostly naked chest was a few dangerous inches from her own . |
| 14 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 15 | Your first prescription was right but a new remedy is now needed . |
| 16 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 17 | I felt I was right but my stock was low on this establishment . |
| 18 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 19 | The Soviet contention that military bases in the Third World could generate dangerous East-West tensions was forcibly and unexpectedly underlined by the crisis initiated by Soviet attempts to establish a nuclear missile base on Cuban soil in 1962 . |
| 20 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 21 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 22 | If you played it out to the left of the fairway it was down-wind and a difficult shot . |
| 23 | Dr John Gauden , who had managed to hold the Deanery of Bocking successively as an Anglican and as a Presbyterian , secretly claimed that ‘ This book and figure was wholly and only my making and design ’ , and demanded his reward . |
| 24 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 25 | Only a small section of the labouring poor was wholly or permanently dependent on poor relief , predominantly the old , the sick and the orphaned who made up the " impotent " as opposed to the " able-bodied " . |
| 26 | In the context of a business sale an employee will be redundant if his dismissal was wholly or mainly attributable either to the change in location of the business or to the fact that fewer employees are now required for the business . |
| 27 | A violent uprising by a Marxist-nationalist group , the JVP , was effectively but brutally crushed in 1989–90 . |
| 28 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 29 | And the of heaven was within and the waters returned to the earth and abated after the end of a hundred and fifty days . |
| 30 | There was a madness about and I could n't tell whether it was within or without me , or either or neither . |