Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Cabinets were much more like that ’ , said one senior official shortly before Michael Heseltine converted semi-covert insider objections to the Thatcher style into a glowing neon sign . |
| 2 | erm you were all right on those . |
| 3 | ‘ But they were all right after that ? ’ asked Duncan . |
| 4 | They were only together for this term : after that — who knows ? |
| 5 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
| 6 | And later on , in the '30s , the Hawaiians managed to get hold of the early electrified lap-steels , like the Rickenbackers and the Gibsons — Gibsons were just everywhere in those days . ’ |
| 7 | It was certainly a convincing win but the warning signs were already there for all to see : despite the forwards winning a barrel-load of good possession , the Scottish three-quarters failed to score a single try at home in front of a vociferous support and against a decrepit Welsh side . |
| 8 | He turned his attention to the troops , who under the quick thinking extemporisation of their Sergeant were once again in some semblance of order . |
| 9 | Ruth shivered ; her spirits were low enough without this . |
| 10 | It does not matter to Hobbes whether men were ever actually in such a ‘ state of nature ’ , but he suggests that the American Indians are in one somewhat like it . |
| 11 | They were quite obviously without any effective social traditions . |
| 12 | St Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) saw Spain as a Christian land , in which the separate identities of Goth and Roman were no longer of any but historical interest . |
| 13 | Westerners in Japan were therefore virtually outside any control by the Japanese . |
| 14 | Richard Hannon 's filly was slowly away on that Haydock run , handing a significant advantage to her main market rival Floating Trial . |
| 15 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 16 | Maisie , from deep inside her black linen bag , was muttering about how it was all right for some people . |
| 17 | I was all right after that . |
| 18 | Yet as she did so their eyes met , and it was all there in those brown depths . |
| 19 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 20 | The general standard of driving was only slightly above that of the average twelve-year-old at the dodgems . |
| 21 | Of those fourteen speeches er er er only the Noble Lord , Lord Tebbit who was only here for half of the Debate has supported er er the idea that there should not be a local authority majority on the Debate . |
| 22 | Further advancement , however , was slow indeed for those officers who were unable to purchase a step in rank in their turn . |
| 23 | Indeed , by the time that the credits of René Clair 's supernatural comedy came on , the ads had already done their work , and I was already invisibly inside that bottle too , ready to share in Veronica 's throaty vibrato . |
| 24 | The only existing course , of 2 years ' duration , in the methodology of French teaching , was open only to those students who already had an A Level in the subject , and was seen as a holding operation . |
| 25 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 26 | were almost erm okay just like that , I mean there were one or two very good ones , I think there was one that was just about like that with the odd word and when an editor receives something like you , you know , it 's usually going to be something he wants to change very slightly , erm that , those were the best ones , there were in general however you have n't yet got used to the idea of editing . |
| 27 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 28 | Insofar as GPs were using section referrals as a method of social control , it was more frequently upon these women . |
| 29 | In overall terms audience delivery , to quote a respected analyst , was probably ahead of most initial forecasts with , predictably , ABC1 men outperforming all the demographic groups . |
| 30 | That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it . |