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 | They were away again for a new season . |
| 16 | They were just slightly under the weather . |
| 17 | At the interval MIS 1 were just ahead of the posse by one point . |
| 18 | ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone . |
| 19 | Where we were just now with the research then talk about questionnaires . |
| 20 | Chile 's external tariffs were already well below the levels which the Mercosur countries contemplated in their initial cuts . |
| 21 | They were already well within the shield zone and , had the barge been hostile , it could have inflicted untold damage . |
| 22 | The signs were already there on the campuses , particularly in the capital , that ‘ something ’ would happen sooner or later . |
| 23 | The implication is that the parish boundaries were already there in the early Saxon period when the dyke was built . |
| 24 | Cos any spare the men or that they were usually away for a har taking up a harvest . |
| 25 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 26 | During the 1950s and 1960s , Plan forecasts for business investment were always well below the outcome . |
| 27 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |
| 28 | At any rate by 1775 work seems to have been discontinued , and the following letter to Moore , created the impression that the mines were once again on the market . |
| 29 | Things , in other words , were once again in the condition of being other than what they seemed . |
| 30 | In the immediate aftermath of the Restoration , the newly restored bishops made the rebuilding and renovating of their cathedrals one of their chief priorities , and by 1662 all except Lichfield and Rochester were once more in a good state of repair . |