Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 2 | Only ‘ Spinster ’ and ‘ Bawd ’ , two poems that I suddenly realised were dramatic monologues anyway . |
| 3 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 4 | Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied . |
| 5 | Goody traces the development of written forms in early Greece until the point when alphabetic literacy enabled ‘ groups of writers and teachers … to take as their point of departure the belief that much of what Homer had apparently said was inconsistent and unsatisfactory in many respects ’ ( 1968 , p. 46 ) . |
| 6 | To assess whether the failure of Myc or Max alone to transactivate was due to an inability to bind DNA , we tested their function when fused to a heterologous transactivation domain ( VP16 ; Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 7 | One-way traffic was not introduced until the 1930s so passing was hazardous , especially when the stone-carts came down the hill . |
| 8 | The roads were still hard so travel was fast and easy as Mandeville used the royal messenger service to obtain good food and warm beds at priories , monasteries , taverns or royal manors . |
| 9 | Though she wanted to run , she forced herself to walk , with what she could only hope was regal grace , past Matthew and out of the confines of that cupboard . |
| 10 | I think it might , cos like does a lot of legal aid , so erm the , you know , legal aid work and he 's quite into it I think , I think he 's quite a decent chappie erm what they were basically saying was poor people wo n't be re erm erm poor people would n't be represented well enough , were n't they ? |
| 11 | The main thrust of Thatcherite social and economic philosophy was far from clear when she took office in May 1979 , so entrenched were key figures of the Heathite past in the party ; but the general thrust would clearly lie in pursuing the monetarist approach of the Chicago economist , Milton Friedman , in which control of the money supply through M3 indicators , and identifying inflation rather than unemployment as the central enemy , were the fundamental themes . |
| 12 | I was aware of your love of language and literature and the involvement which you obviously felt was contagious , and came over to me as being very real . |
| 13 | The adverse act required under Morris did not mean that the prosecution had to prove that the appropriation was not done with the authority of the owner because so to hold was inconsistent with Lawrence . |
| 14 | Health chiefs called in to investigate were astonished to find piles of plastic puppies , all modelled on the loveable star of the famous Andrex TV adverts . |
| 15 | The Labour Council , elected in 1982 , had as a stated policy aim that every child whose parents so wished was entitled to a pre-school place of some sort . |
| 16 | The basal acid output in the one duodenal ulcer subject in whom H pylori infection was not eradicated was similar before ( 3.7 ) and after ( 4.8 ) the triple treatment . |
| 17 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
| 18 | Despite the heat , Ludovico 's passion had taken her to heights she had not dreamed were possible . |
| 19 | They were risking falling foul of the law whose edge they would not find as rough as their ancestors had , but would soon discover was hurtful enough . |
| 20 | Students who could not attend were able to obtain the examiners ' notes , which highlighted the main points of each talk . |
| 21 | Best known was International Champion and Bundessieger and Worldsieger , Erno v Wellesweiler , an American champion . |
| 22 | Among the representatives of the paramilitary organisations , the best known was Lieut.-Colonel E. H. Brush , CB , DSO , OBE , the commander of the Down Orange Welfare Volunteers . |
| 23 | But the relationship thus defined was fraught with all manner of difficulties . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the characteristics of pill users no longer observed were similar to never users no longer observed , so comparison between contraceptive groups also remains valid . |
| 25 | They could also describe children being sent individually or in small groups , to forage for information on particular topics , and in the case of the school which monitored library use , the school could demonstrate that the range of subjects thus represented was considerable . |
| 26 | Leighton 's error in allowing Didier Deschamps to beat him at the near post and present France with an advantage they did not deserve was crucial to the outcome of the match . |
| 27 | To be near someone who had just killed was painful , agonising if the killer had enjoyed the killing . |
| 28 | The duplication and friction thus created was palpable . |
| 29 | The idea that science teaching can be more effective if you start by eliciting the ideas which children already have was new to many of the teachers participating in the SPACE Project . |
| 30 | Umpire Woodward was also standing during delays most thought were unnecessary in the Napier Test between New Zealand and India in 1990 , and at last year 's Wellington v Sri Lankans match ( ‘ We will not tolerate a repeat , ’ said national chairman Peter McDermott and executive director Graham Dowling at that stage ) . |