Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 2 | However , this seepage was slight and not a problem . |
| 3 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 4 | For example , the incidental take from squid gill-net fisheries by Taiwan and Korea was unreported and therefore an unknown quantity . |
| 5 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 6 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 7 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 8 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 9 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 10 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 11 | The success was phenomenal and soon the company opened factories in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | The competition was fierce and only a few could obtain the valuable passports , visas and tickets to leave the confines of China . |
| 13 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 14 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
| 15 | Her movements as she set the inverted cups upright on their saucers and manipulated milk jug , teapot and hot water jug were precise and just a little fussy . |
| 16 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 17 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 18 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 19 | The press was far and away the most important section of the audience . |
| 20 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 21 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 22 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 23 | The CGT was far and away the most powerful union federation . |
| 24 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 25 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |