Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 2 | If discipline and religion were central to the BB philosophy , so too was friendship — it was the Trojan horse in which ‘ influence ’ hid , awaiting its opportunity . |
| 3 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 4 | This ambiguity of language helps to explain why so many interpretations of Wordsworth 's philosophy and religion were able to arise . |
| 5 | Her job , her leisure , her religion were devoted to being a provider of at best health and knowledge , at the least of time or food . |
| 6 | Since healing and religion were interrelated , the smoking of sick people ( to exorcise evil spirits ) became one of the earliest forms of medicine . |
| 7 | ‘ Then one would show what happened if the speed were different . ’ |
| 8 | Her sufferings were enough to fill a few episodes of the soap and showed that career success is n't a guarantee of happiness . |
| 9 | Speakers at a Beverley antislavery meeting in 1824 did not believe that slaves needed ‘ foreign stimulus ’ to make them rebel ; their own sufferings were sufficient . |
| 10 | It runs below a raised beach , evidence that in ages past the waters of the loch were higher than they are today . |
| 11 | His words were rough as when he swore at his horse . |
| 12 | The words were rough , slightly uneven . |
| 13 | The words were low and clipped , as though it hurt him to speak . |
| 14 | As one would expect the best results are obtained when all of the correct words were present in the lattice , with quite a large decrease in performance being found when the lattice quality drops to 89% . |
| 15 | He said words were inadequate to describe what he felt about Laing and warned that when he came out of prison ‘ people will be waiting for him and justice will be done properly ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Starving , ’ she murmured , meeting his intense gaze , knowing her words were dangerous , exciting , heavy with sensuous meaning . |
| 17 | He had a habit of singing joylessly about the house , and my colleague was one day amazed to hear what she thought was ‘ Drink to me Only ’ ; she had , however , little time to be surprised at this sensuality , for more careful listening revealed that the words were all about hell-fire and damnation . |
| 18 | Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus . |
| 19 | His words were all it needed to remind her of home , and while he , presumably , thought of his beautiful green homeland and his dead wife and baby , her thoughts turned to her loved ones . |
| 20 | Precatory words were one , but only one , category of words which would be accepted as setting up trusts if they made the testator 's intention clear . |
| 21 | Although Micah 's words were first heard thousands of years ago , you can find them today inscribed on a very modern building : |
| 22 | These words were new in section 14 by virtue of the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 . |
| 23 | His words were simple , perfectly reasonable , yet strangely laden with threat . |
| 24 | Dazed , overwhelmed with the need and intensity that had sizzled between them since they first met , Rachel did less than resist ; she actively acquiesced , arching her body against his as he slid on to the bed on top of her , and his hoarsely muttered words were bitter-sweet to her ears as he renewed the kiss , his heart thudding above her as his hands began to stroke and explore her passionately responsive body . |
| 25 | Jessamy knew her words were cruel , but she felt as if she had been pushed very near to her limit . |
| 26 | The words were insignificant , but there was something in his tone that made her happy for some reason . |
| 27 | But the words were meaningless to her , and she ran on , her breath ragged . |
| 28 | His words were contemptuous . |
| 29 | The voice was calm and soft and the words were ordinary , but he knew he was being told a horror story . |
| 30 | Words were primary . |