Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outset the work of the Panel and Board was intensely time consuming . |
| 2 | To say it was effortfully hollow would have been an understatement . |
| 3 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 4 | It was mostly merchants who lived here , but notwithstanding their love of luxury , their houses were gloomy inside . |
| 5 | The clientele of Le Club Zodiaque was mostly ladies of a late autumn who visit a grave back home with a weekly gift of fresh flowers . |
| 6 | She used to give them Pedigree Chum too , but it was mostly cat food . |
| 7 | How little Dana knew her ; the strength she admired was mostly window-dressing . |
| 8 | This was mostly afternoon and evening clothes . |
| 9 | It was mostly Crown land , divided into ‘ Rayles ’ ( enclosed areas for herding deer ) . |
| 10 | There was a novel before which was never published , and never will be because it was mostly autobiography and self-expression . |
| 11 | Her diet was mostly handfuls of peanuts and crisps from private views she had attended . |
| 12 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 13 | Although it was mostly men I felt totally at home . |
| 14 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 15 | It was mostly seeds and stuff like that . |
| 16 | Towards 1540 , when earnings were certainly much lower , it was mostly fishing villages lik Bodinick and St Germans that looked poverty-stricken to Lelan , though the jottings of a tourist , primarily on the look-out for antiquities , hardly stand comparison with systematic investigations of Carew , a professional surveyor and a life-long student of local matters . |
| 17 | It was mostly material like this which was being dumped in the mid-Atlantic . |
| 18 | It was mostly East Grinstead in the second half with Leman being denied by Thompson twice and new England sensation Mahmood Bhatti shooting wide twice when well placed . |
| 19 | In my view , then , it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham 's . |
| 20 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 21 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 22 | that it was predominantly women that were in the carriage cleaners . |
| 23 | Incidentally , Tommy had a dog of 57 varieties called Sammy who was predominantly Spaniel by looks and devoted to him . |
| 24 | In addition the population was predominantly men and elderly . |
| 25 | The background of one was recognizably Santa de Nogueira , and she was locked in struggle with an ordinary-looking man about whom a dark cloud was gathering . |
| 26 | The second was that the UK was effectively part of an increasingly competitive world market so that the monopoly power of the merged firms , and the corresponding social cost of the dead-weight burden , would be small . |
| 27 | From then until the Battle of the White Hill in 1620 , Bohemia was effectively Europe 's first Protestant state . |
| 28 | However , the defendant 's argument that the list was effectively idea reflects the desirability of standardization in traffic controllers as , otherwise , there could be catastrophic mistakes . |
| 29 | The Suffolk side had the perfect start , as the impressive Fry waltzed through the visitors ' defence to settle any early nerves and just six minutes later the title was effectively Tuddenham Road bound . |
| 30 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |