Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speech , billed as the most important address ever made by a Hong Kong governor , was mostly well received by community leaders , with criticisms focusing on its skimpy attention to important political issues . |
| 2 | But probably a guard had spotted it and it was right now sitting in some staff-room in Queen Street station , or Gallanach . |
| 3 | Naylor , tall , dark , and not looking any sweeter , was right there towering over her . |
| 4 | Mrs Eckersley 's friend at the German Foreign Office , to whom he now offered his services as a full-time employee , passed him on to Dr Erich Hetzler , private secretary to the Nazi Foreign Minister , von Ribbentrop , whom Joyce was rather ungratefully to refer to in future as ‘ Ribbentripe ’ . |
| 5 | Lord Beddington , mindful of the same appointment , was rather optimistically emerging from the shop with a bottle of Lockyers Sulphur Hair-restorer , and six tablets of Amiral soap ( ‘ Removes Burden of Corpulency ’ ) . |
| 6 | The independent Red Army press was rather better adapted to its readership . |
| 7 | Bridget Hill maintains that wife-beating was common through all levels of society , though it was rather better concealed among the affluent [ Hill , 199–200 ] . |
| 8 | In Vienna , the radical challenge of such a raw aesthetic of the instincts was rather quickly recuperated into an unchallenging baroque and decorative aesthetics . |
| 9 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 10 | In the end it was rather like working for two pop stars . |
| 11 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |
| 12 | After several hours of futile combat , in which the Norman minstrel Taillefer perished in a glorious suicide ride and the knights were unable to smash the fyrd 's defensive rings , the battle turned , the Saxon ranks broke line under their own enthusiasm rather than the Norman ruse always reported , and Harold was eventually mortally wounded by the repeated rain of arrows which , lacking sufficient archers , the English were unable to return . |
| 13 | The parents again refused consent for the operation , but the operation was eventually successfully conducted following the intervention of social workers and a woman judge . |
| 14 | The other had continued pain that was eventually successfully managed by a laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 15 | Drawing on support from leading Party members , such as Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang and his popular appeal among the people , Deng was eventually formally restored to his government posts in July 1977 . |
| 16 | Quite apart from the fact that Hopper 's movie was eventually virtually sabotaged by the studio ( or himself , depending on which side you were on ) , director Bob Rafelson had a good script which would without question consolidate Nicholson as the finest exponent of counter-culture appeal available anywhere in America in that year . |
| 17 | Corinth , then , not Sparta , was most nearly affected by the rapprochement between Athens and Megara in 460 and , consistently with this , it was Corinth rather than Sparta who fought Athens hardest in the war which now broke out , the First Peloponnesian War , of 460–446 . |
| 18 | The 1830s was not only the most successful decade abolitionists in England experienced in their history but also the period in which the fluctuating interaction of agitation in the country with manoeuvre by and within the political class was most nearly resolved into parliamentary and administrative activity as a direct expression of mobilised grass-roots attitudes . |
| 19 | On the following day I gave directions for expedition , and also for the service of evidence , which was most commendably complied with by all concerned during the intervening five days , which included the May bank holiday weekend . |
| 20 | This vision was most dramatically evoked by John Bailey at a conference of the English Association in 1917 : |
| 21 | This view was most effectively expressed by writers such as G.H. Mead ( 1934 ) and L.S. Vygotsky ( trans. 1962 , 1978 ) over 50 years ago . |
| 22 | The contradictory nature of the party leadership 's stance on cultural matters between 1928 and 1934 was most strikingly illustrated by Barbusse 's editorial control of the journal Monde . |
| 23 | The idea that the appearance of amour courtois in late eleventh-century Aquitaine was one of the great moments in the history of mankind was most powerfully expressed by C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love . |
| 24 | This view was most strongly expressed in respect of music and drama . |
| 25 | The US , however , was most strongly criticised for its record on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 26 | Junius 's main targets may have been the King 's ministers , but in 1792 Gillray 's satirical alm was most surely directed against royal personages . |
| 27 | In one of them , Dundee , advantage was most shrewdly taken of the fruit growing capabilities of local soil and climate when the Keillers set up their jam and marmalade manufactory in 1797 . |
| 28 | The identification of Hitler with the ‘ struggle against the Jews ’ was most probably seen in a more positive light by the far wider sections of the population , who , though never rabid or violent anti-Semites , had accepted the basic justification of discrimination and expulsion of Jews , and who were largely persuaded of the responsibility of world Jewry for the war . |
| 29 | The philosopher whose name is always associated with the 1688–9 settlement in England is , of course , John Locke , even though his Second Treatise of Government , which was taken as an apologia for that settlement , was most probably written as a response to the Exclusion crisis of 1679–80 . |
| 30 | The formal nature of the signature does indeed suggest that Molla Fenari was signing the document in an official capacity ( cf. the informal nature of the problematical signature , cited on p. 155 of Husameddin 's article and discussed below , where Molla Fenari has clearly been asked simply to lend his name to the proceedings ) ; and while he was most probably acting as kadi of Bursa , as the biographical sources would suggest , it should be noted that the signature is not in itself conclusive proof of this . |