Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it was generally accepted that the country was economically near bankruptcy and would need time and a continuation of generous American aid to effect recovery , few people doubted the economy could be rebuilt faster than that of devastated Europe and Japan . |
| 2 | The whole place was remarkably like school , only better . |
| 3 | She was remarkably like Eleanor , he thought , but better . |
| 4 | However , in what the Guardian of July 9 called " a scintillating display of his personality and skill at manipulation " , Gorbachev castigated and cajoled the congress into reversing this decision ; on this and several subsequent occasions it was proved that the combative talk by the majority conservatives was strikingly at odds with their docility when it came to challenging outright the will of the party leader . |
| 5 | I told her that an aunt of mine used to insist that Charles , the crippled brother in the book , was secretly in love with his cousin , Lady Eveleen . |
| 6 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , with whom half the Tory Party was secretly in love ( Edwina hoped the other half was in love with her ) , was holding a small court , flanked by her husband , Peter . |
| 7 | But how was that possible when he was secretly in love with Silvia ? |
| 8 | But from 1564 until 1585 England was mostly at peace with her neighbours , even if that peace was sometimes fragile . |
| 9 | That was stardom and Kenneth Williams was a star , even if his appeal was mostly on home territory . |
| 10 | Well , I thought it was mostly for people there . |
| 11 | The decor in the low-ceilinged room was mostly of wicker and bamboo , with plenty of foliage washed by a green light so vivid that its effect was one of utter unreality . |
| 12 | The wood was mostly of hardwood — oaks , beeches and elms — with an occasional small clump of conifers undergrown by a mass of rhododendron . |
| 13 | The prose was mostly about places Rory had been ; they read like out-takes from his travel pieces . |
| 14 | The most time was on Fridays when the drivers and conductors or fitters , everybody used to get their pay packet which was mostly in notes they would immediately go to the depot and say , can I change it . |
| 15 | The conversation was mostly in Portuguese , a language in decline here , but still widely used among the landowning classes . |
| 16 | Although air travel started to grow again last year , it was mostly among passengers using discounted tickets and sitting in the economy section . |
| 17 | She was right of course , he knew that , but her words hurt just the same . |
| 18 | He was right of course , Carrie thought , and as she nestled the child to her and placed the teat of the bottle against the child 's searching mouth she bit on her lip and tried to suppress the anger which welled up inside her . |
| 19 | She was right of course . |
| 20 | Blanche was right of course . |
| 21 | And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street . |
| 22 | Building societies , for the finance of house building or purchase , grew rapidly and by the end of the century attracted many small investors , but their appeal was rather to tradesmen and the lower-middle class than to manual workers . |
| 23 | He led her along a cold flagged corridor now , where the walls gleamed faintly with phosphorescence , and where , although wall sconces flared bravely , the light was greenish and lack-lustre , so that it was rather like walking under water . |
| 24 | Fishing was rather like farming in that a river fishery was a limited resource that could support only a restricted number of people . |
| 25 | It was rather like leaving tributes at an altar . |
| 26 | I also see Spitting Image , yes , though I 've always felt their puppet of me was rather like Richard Nixon . |
| 27 | She was eventually in charge of 160 dancers at one point , and she choreographed productions all over the world . |
| 28 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 29 | The SDP 's electoral strength was predominantly in Lagos , in the Yoruba-speaking states of the south-west , and in the middle-belt states . |
| 30 | Mr Churchill was luckily in Ditchley Park , in Oxfordshire , and I am to fly there now . |