Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lodovico gives an external judgement on him that is essentially right : ‘ O thou Othello , that wert once so good , /Fallen in the practice of a damned slave ’ ( 293f . ) . |
| 2 | Although the colliery communities -were never really associated with the cult of respectability , which was so important in dividing the " rough " from the " respectable " working class in Victorian England , nevertheless the pit brow women were regarded as a moral threat . |
| 3 | These statements-were then considered by ministers and senior civil servants who then made decisions which were implemented . |
| 4 | And even if the drivers had never visited London , they would have no excuse for mistaking the building ; the throng around it-was already twenty or thirty deep , spilling far over the pavement and into the street . |
| 5 | The new owner — a man on his own , gossip said , a wealthy man-was plainly moving in . |
| 6 | Her body-was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces , like a porcelain figure . |
| 7 | Elongated single-aspect plans with hall-corridors on the entrance front were introduced to ensure even greater privacy from callers and servants , private wings were stepped back to create private sheltered garden areas , and the kitchen and staple offices were skilfully deployed at right angles to the main block to create sheltered L-plan forecourts . |
| 8 | These , built as defences against the Viking invaders , are accredited to the Iron Age and were skilfully constructed to a circular plan , with a double wall enclosing a stairway and a circular paddock for cattle . |
| 9 | The different degrees and sources of political power of the hospital consultants on the one hand and the general practitioners on the other were skilfully exploited by Bevan in setting up the NHS . |
| 10 | New tees lurked in the trees on several holes , and were skilfully placed to bring into play the same hazards which threatened the club players from their tees . |
| 11 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 12 | The fifteen acres of nursery were skilfully planned . |
| 13 | Even if the insults were skilfully repaid with interest . |
| 14 | Both were presumably tenants as Charles Ballinger still owned the mill up to the 1850s . |
| 15 | Wearing the portrait of a military or political leader upon a ring or on a coin mounted as a jewel was an obvious sign of allegiance ; other portraits of unknown individuals were presumably private commemorations . |
| 16 | People were presumably far too busy at the time , and the principal workers have now died . |
| 17 | His political views , however , were presumably not completely irrelevant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The various fittings associated with the handle rarely survive as they were presumably made from organic materials . |
| 20 | Indeed , one wonders sometimes whether the apparent simplicity of such political remedies has , in some peculiar way , affected the diagnosis of the supposed ‘ sickness ’ in the first place ( undesirable qualities , low levels of skill , weak subject expertise ) to which those remedies were presumably a response ; whether the remedies have produced the sickness , rather than vice versa . |
| 21 | In this regard it might be added that the permanent garrison included many soldiers who practised trades in the community when they were not on duty , and the smith and storeman were presumably in this category . |
| 22 | ‘ You were presumably with Martinez ’ agency when they signed up Brian Harley ? ’ |
| 23 | Commius was forced to flee to Britain and he established himself as King of the British Atrebates which were presumably an earlier migrant group of the Gallic tribe of the same name . |
| 24 | Both men were presumably accompanied by their brothers , since Robert Harrington and John Parr were later knighted by Edward at Tewkesbury , and Thomas Parr died at Barnet . |
| 25 | But the appointments were presumably also made on the assumption that the men concerned could be relied upon to obey Gloucester rather than the Woodvilles , an assumption which , during the protectorate , seems to have been vindicated . |
| 26 | Our Flag printed New Year messages in 1914 from Lansdowne , Bonar Law , Selborne , Austen Chamberlain , Long , Carson , Smith , Steel-Maitland , Lord Edmund Talbot , and George Younger , in that order ; the last three were presumably included as Party Chairman , Chief Whip and Scottish Whip , but the rest of the list may be taken as indicative of a rough order of precedence at that time . |
| 27 | They were found in Rome , where they were presumably brought in antiquity . |
| 28 | People who responded to the considerable demands of the questionnaire were presumably those who felt committed enough to do so . |
| 29 | The courtyard was surrounded by what were presumably the inner walls of the palace . |
| 30 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |