Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the streets were dry again . |
| 2 | Her jeans and shirt were dry now . |
| 3 | Oh just until they were dry maybe if it was a grand time of wind , maybe say three days . |
| 4 | But my towels were dry enough to iron . |
| 5 | He made sure his hands were dry too but while he wiped them he managed to drop the hat . |
| 6 | The old lady 's eyelids were drooping now . |
| 7 | The majority were technical rather than practical courses . |
| 8 | They must once have been the focus of her beauty , and although they were sunken now , he could still see the glint of intelligence behind them . |
| 9 | Although most of his final years were spent attempting to defend liberal precedents , those victories which the liberal minority did still achieve were due largely to his authority , intellect and tactical skill . |
| 10 | But former executives and advisers to both companies told Esquire that the failures were due primarily to mismanagement and bad decision-making . |
| 11 | Some 2,500 Achuar had staged a three week protest march to Quito , the capital , where they were due shortly to be received by President Borja . |
| 12 | Not even this could persuade Mr Ronald King-Murray , the new Lord Advocate , to move ; presumably because the thought of having to admit that Meehan' ; wrongful conviction and five years of imprisonment ( so far ) were due partly to the blunders of his office was too Painful to contemplate . |
| 13 | G. Although the positions and sizes of most settlements in this region were due almost solely to the way in which people organised themselves , or in other words due to human factors , a few depended on the landforms , or physical factors . |
| 14 | Anyhow I thought the team had a pretty good crimble period , despite the number of draws which were due mainly to bad luck and some inept finishing . |
| 15 | Moreover , Keeble argued ( see section 2.4 ) that the shifts in the 1970s were due precisely to the counter-processes which can be sparked off by the concentration of development in a particular area . |
| 16 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 17 | The suffragettes were weak physically and numerically , without franchise , and had resorted to passive resistance as the only weapon at their disposal . |
| 18 | Sabine 's legs were weak suddenly . |
| 19 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 20 | Efforts to abolish the political fund were unsuccessful , but in the event were unnecessary anyway . |
| 21 | Though had Leith any anxieties about telling him of her feelings , then she discovered that they were unnecessary anyway , for , glancing at Naylor again , she saw that a cold mask seemed to have slipped over his features . |
| 22 | Similarly his sermons were memorable less for their theology than for digressions ranging from the price of second-hand books to a dramatic reading from Macbeth . |
| 23 | Further investigations were carried out to determine whether or not the proportion of straightforward deliveries varied with the location of the items requested , to examine the proportion of deliveries from each location which were placed on reserve for readers , and to record the relative numbers of non-straightforward deliveries from each location which were attributable either to ‘ initial failure ’ or to the need to transfer items from another reader . |
| 24 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 25 | This was the room where only last week they had eagerly discussed the merits of anchovy ( protagonist Auguste ) versus red wine sauce for fillets of John Dory ; whether sole on prawn mousse covered with aspic ( Alice 's invention ) brought out the true flavours of the fish , or smothered them ; whether mussels were preferable simply cooked in white wine or whether , as Emily contended , with cream and sorrel sauce added . |
| 26 | he was going both of them going , how 's your missus , some people did n't even know that you were pregnant again |
| 27 | yeah , a lot of people did n't know you were pregnant again |
| 28 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 29 | At the time empires were normal enough ; it was nationalism that was unusual and , if it did develop , it might easily break Charles 's empire into fragments because of the absence of linguistic or geographic unity . |
| 30 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |