Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 2 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 3 | There was altogether less to be frightened of . |
| 4 | Alcuin was so far from being certain of this standing with Coenwulf that he asked a Mercian patrician — probably the senior Mercian ealdorman Brorda — to greet the king peaceably ‘ if it is possible to do so ’ . |
| 5 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 6 | To be a bourgeois was not merely to be superior , but also to have demonstrated moral qualities equivalent to the old puritan ones . |
| 7 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 8 | Here he rejected the widely accepted ‘ penal theory ’ , according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them . |
| 9 | It was too soon to be fitzAlan , she told herself , reason overwhelming her first impulsive hope . |