Example sentences of "was [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But it was mostly the other thing , that he 'd had to sweat all his life and she 'd never done a hand 's turn . |
| 3 | The pattern for aircraft was mostly the same . |
| 4 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 5 | The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man , who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink , and had forgotten to lock the door ! |
| 6 | The Department of the Environment survey confirmed the results of earlier work carried out by Bristol University School for Advanced Urban Studies ; that it was predominantly the better-off and middle-aged tenants who bought , usually with more than one wage-earner in the household . |
| 7 | Advocating a full multiparty democratic system and the CPSU 's abandonment of " democratic centralism " , this was effectively the first faction openly to have emerged in the CPSU since the 1920s . |
| 8 | As Tacitus informs us , all the tribes occupying that territory on the Roman side of the Rivers Trent and Avon , which was effectively the new province , were disarmed . |
| 9 | But the dramatic decline to 40 MPs in the 1924 General Election was effectively the electoral sign that the Liberal Party was no longer a realistic party of government . |
| 10 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 11 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 12 | From then until the dissolution of the Empire by Napoleon in 1806 the Imperial crown was effectively the hereditary possession of the Habsburg family . |
| 13 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger had previously worked on original scripts ; this was the first of four novel adaptations , of which The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the only one in black and white , was paradoxically the best , though they were the supreme colour artists of British cinema in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 14 | Our story begins in India , where in 1885 what was arguably the only significant nationalist organization with which the British ever had to contend , the Indian National Congress , was founded by — an Englishman . |
| 15 | The navigator was a young sergeant named Mike Sadler who had emigrated to Rhodesia before the war and who was arguably the best at finding his way around the Libyan desert . |
| 16 | Some fine and competitive rallying in which was arguably the best match of the three days , saw her come very close to Audra Keller , a 19 year old form Tennessee who was playing in her third consecutive Maureen Connolly Cup event . |
| 17 | John Upson who trains near Towcester wo n't hear of defeat for Zeta 's Lad who has won five chases this season and whose success last time out in the Racing Post Chaser at Kempton was arguably the best National trial so far . |
| 18 | Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics . |
| 19 | A glorious sunset is a standard Romantic thrill : the greetings which human beings exchange are usually meaningless , and the woman 's strange expression was presumably the usual one in that part of the country . |
| 20 | There was ‘ a foreign substance which can be felt by touch under the skin of the neck ’ , which was presumably the first and fatal bullet fired by Abbas Mohamed . |
| 21 | The buildings of this remarkable site included a large and elaborate bath-house and a guest-house with rooms round a courtyard and a fine pillared fore-hall , which was presumably the communal dining room serviced from the detached east wing and , as Wheeler suggested , based on the classical hostelry ( his p. 48 ) . |
| 22 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 23 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |
| 24 | Government itself was rarely the active initiator in the move to criminalize immorality . |
| 25 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 26 | While no round was less than absorbing , Bowe throwing the heavier punches but Holyfield responding with ones of more technical merit , the 10th was outstandingly the best . |
| 27 | In bulk output , Great Britain was outstandingly the biggest producer of textiles , for example . |
| 28 | The Gore-Tex Climbing World Finals as this second British international competition was erroneously called , since it was merely the final round of a six competition series , was a great success , both from the organisational point of view and the paying spectator 's viewpoint . |
| 29 | Control was merely the essential prerequisite to constructive administration . |
| 30 | But the hatred was merely the other side of love , the element that darkened it , touching their passion with the hostility that made their lovemaking resemble fighting . |