Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [adj] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These new improved organisms were much better able to survive and avoid danger , to find food and to reproduce , multiplying ever more rapidly . |
| 2 | They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair . |
| 3 | They were always too busy to come but they sent their children . |
| 4 | In this way the Association could counter the Left Wing Type Seminars [ sic ] which were often very one sided and misrepresentative of current Police views … |
| 5 | people were simply too lazy to try and remember . |
| 6 | This legal bonanza was obviously too good to last and ultimately matters were brought to a head in a series of compromises , as a result of which the lease was forfeited but the plaintiffs abandoned all its money claims in the relevant action other than for arrears of rent , and — and for the present purposes this is the crucial matter — the plaintiff released the surety unconditionally from his personal guarantee contained in the licence of 3 December 1973 . |
| 7 | She was much too weary to eat or even to open her post ; she would do that later . |
| 8 | Here the ‘ cut and paste ’ method of working was just as easy to use and so the program 's sales began to mushroom . |
| 9 | It was not too far to jump and I know every inch of the lake . |
| 10 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 11 | She was far too quick-witted to complain and endured silently , but she managed to extract a promise of a new hat and a new dress from him , before getting up an hour later to tidy herself and prepare supper . |
| 12 | I was now better able to concentrate and better able to take stock . |
| 13 | So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of . |