Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] was [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armscott Manor was vast and rambling , admittedly . |
| 2 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 3 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 4 | The man giving orders was short and fat . |
| 5 | When the young laird of Dunvegan , Norman Macleod , came down late for breakfast , Johnson ticked him off , saying laziness was worse than toothache : ‘ I have been trying to cure my laziness all my life , and could not do it . ’ |
| 6 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |