Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam said he did n't , he meant myopotamus , which in turn meant coypu that were presumably now in the process of being exterminated , whereupon Mary burst into shouts of anger and distress , calling him a cruel beast and an enemy of ecology . |
| 2 | These proportional changes rendered the design of the Greek Doric Order , with its baseless thick and shorter columns , more difficult and temples built here from about 300 B.C. onwards were most commonly of the Ionic Order or , occasionally Corinthian Order construction . |
| 3 | • Independent Television were most recently at the ELR to film background scenes for the Aussie bodice-ripping soap , Families . |
| 4 | While Danzigers were most definitely on the sharp end of Polish-German relations they were also historically and personally in a unique position to give the lie to Nazi manipulation and simplification . |
| 5 | But the conditions and the pay were long since beside the point . |
| 6 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |
| 7 | They were much more like the nuns than were my fellow-countrywomen and co-religionists . |
| 8 | The policeman 's job was to count the knobs and report that they were all right in the morning . |
| 9 | The sides were only just above the water , and often the water came in . |
| 10 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
| 11 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 12 | Zakrevskii 's political opinions were so far to the right that he thought the Moscow Slavophiles were dangerous subversives ; his antipathy to modernization led him to deplore not only the construction of new factories in Moscow but also the expansion of old ones . |
| 13 | We were so far behind the group that King Hussein got us permission to fly the pipeline across Saudi Arabia ; the group which did not have the same permission had to backtrack to Luxor , before crossing the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 14 | In 1980 Davis and Dean Martin were together again in The Cannonball Run , a star-studded comedy headed by Burt Reynolds and directed by Hal Needham . |
| 15 | We were in just over the border . |
| 16 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
| 17 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
| 18 | Consultancy profits were down again from the poor first half level . |
| 19 | When you were actually involved in it , when you were down there at the murder coal-face , it could be as complicated and unsatisfactory as marriage . |
| 20 | ‘ Literally hundreds of people were down there on the beach , ’ she said . |
| 21 | I think about the same time as Walter for the war was declared when we were down there on the third of September . |
| 22 | Her parents were down there in the garden , Missy , her labrador bitch , at their heels . |
| 23 | Lost time incidents and the associated frequency index were down substantially from the previous year , maintaining a progressively improving trend . |
| 24 | They were away again for a new season . |
| 25 | So God 's promises to Abraham were not just for the selfish enjoyment of a chosen few . |
| 26 | If Max was there when Dedo arrived the chances were not altogether against a peaceful conversazione and the witty exit of Modigliani to his own atelier close by … |
| 27 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 28 | Commissions in an expanding army might be made available without purchase , either to support the interest of Administration politicians or to stimulate recruiting and sometimes both , but rarely could they serve an opposition politician directly , although the fact that military commissions were not immediately under the control of the Government manager for Scotland permitted some indirect approaches by opposition members and their friends . |
| 29 | The children were not even at the back of the house away from the road . |
| 30 | Essential services like housing and transport were not even on the drawing board . |