Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [coord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His legs were supple and strongly muscled , and Grainne half closed her eyes , and let her mind race forward , and anticipated the feel of his thighs against her … |
| 2 | All these solutions were current and much discussed . |
| 3 | It is probably quite likely that the foreigners were honest and hard working , keeping themselves much to themselves but it was clearly a tinder-box situation with the tiniest spark capable of leading to a conflagration . |
| 4 | These paper notes , redeemable in gold or silver were transferable and thus gave rise to the use of paper money in England . |
| 5 | His stands alienated the richer members so that his ministries were short and ill paid . |
| 6 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 7 | Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn . |
| 8 | In the old days , researchers in the military sector were pampered while scientists in civil research were ill-equipped and badly paid , with few prospects for promotion or international recognition . |
| 9 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |
| 10 | In years past this contest was unregulated and often resulted in the destruction of large parts of Altdorf and widespread carnage amongst the civilian population . |
| 11 | This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists . |
| 12 | The forest to the south of the Swamp was hilly and comparatively open . |
| 13 | ‘ Because Tanith was premature and only weighed 5lb 4oz , none of the clothes I 'd bought her , or was given , fitted . |
| 14 | The apartment maintained by Ladram Avionics on Park Avenue was small but comfortably fitted out in contemporary style . |
| 15 | His mouth was wide and well cut , with a deeply indented upper lip , and a decidedly grim set to it , and there was something about him which kept her rigid with tension beneath the covers . |
| 16 | His handsomeness was a little battered now , but he still had the wolfish look she remembered from years ago — long face , strong jaw , broad brow ; his mouth was full and slightly lopsided , which gave him a crooked grin . |
| 17 | The hind limbs were strong and apparently adapted for scratch-digging , and Hyperodapedon could presumably dig up edible tubers and roots . |
| 18 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 19 | As the duties were light and rapidly becoming merely nominal owing to the continued refusal of the war to start , Charles fetched Clarissa from her theatre nearly every night to take her dancing at one famous rendezvous or another . |
| 20 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 21 | Extra artillery and troops were drafted in , and an attempt was made to plug the gaps with extra forts , yet by the 1740s the defence lines were crooked and poorly organized . |
| 22 | The shikar lobby was strong and well organized and naturally argued that the tiger population was holding its own . |
| 23 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 24 | The boy was offhand and always trying to be clever . |
| 25 | The common-room was large and comfortably furnished and at the far end included pool tables , dartboards and table tennis . |
| 26 | Equipment was conventional but well maintained . |
| 27 | The path to the next set of ruins was steeper and less travelled than the previous one . |
| 28 | Even so , Dr Neil 's modest home was larger and better appointed than most around Vetch Street , and was vast compared with the one stifling room she had briefly occupied in Crow Court . |
| 29 | Leonora , the creative one , was perfectly happy to get on with her knitting in her little nook in the shop , help with the customers when trade was brisk , type what correspondence was necessary and otherwise leave Elise to the hard sell . |
| 30 | Therefore in the USA the methods of collective bargaining associated with the heyday of competitive capitalism were outmoded and eventually destroyed along with the breaking by employers of union control of the labour process . |