Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is in a castle in the mountains , where the roads were terrible and all the communication lines were down . |
| 2 | The plants are often preserved as dark markings on shales , and were less than half a metre in length . |
| 3 | The resort 's advertisements were accurate and all the entertainment and leisure facilities described as free were indeed absolutely free . |
| 4 | Some of the pews were new and both the chancery screen and the choir loft had been refurbished . |
| 5 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 6 | Even to me then , it was strange that such a perception should dawn at that moment , when dogs were barking , wind was blowing in , everyone was making a hubbub , and Mary Shelley stood before me . |
| 7 | When she quoted a figure that was lower than usual the caller immediately fixed an appointment . |
| 8 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 9 | He had been relatively easy to control in the north while it was clear that all the going rested with Hope but in London , Newton had been much more sinister . |
| 10 | The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened . |
| 11 | Is this why the Unit and all its works seem to have disappeared from the records — because it was unthinkable that such a document should officially exist ? |
| 12 | Recently my grandfather died — it was sudden and such a shock after my grandmother 's death . |
| 13 | Finally someone spoke to a policeman about her , saying he thought it was disgraceful that such a person should be allowed to lurk about near to a play-park for the under-fives , and that ‘ nutty beggar-women ’ should be kept out of the parks . |
| 14 | Some industry people worried they would have to , others were willing to subscribe what was reasonable but all the industry opposed a levy on traded seed . |
| 15 | There is nothing that is infinitely irresistible nor that is truly immovable , and as for the idea of a ‘ substance impossible to contain' — that , I decided , was a fiendish invention designed to get me into a muddle as I was sure that such a substance would be a manifest impossibility in practice . |
| 16 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 17 | For while Tughluk Delhi was first and foremost a barracks-town , it was not entirely without culture or civilization . |
| 18 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 19 | But whatever the extent of anti-British feeling , the impatience was first and foremost a sign that the final peace showed no immediate signs of becoming reality . |
| 20 | The political significance the radicals assumed from the 1890s was first and foremost a measure of the close correspondence between their programmes and mass aspirations . |
| 21 | The farmer 's wife was first and foremost a mother and her children had first call on her time . |
| 22 | The little tailor , as I have told you , was first and foremost a craftsman , and he stared in wonder at this beautiful model and could not begin to imagine what fine tools or instruments had carved and wrought it . |
| 23 | His was the discipline and the drive of the scientist ; Lear was first and foremost an artist . |
| 24 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 25 | It was one and three an hour . |
| 26 | As to Francis , well , it was inconceivable that such a thing could happen . |
| 27 | Jane was angry , not just because he had refused , but because it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful . |
| 28 | He was appalled that such a story should appear in a newspaper , and the council , he said , would meet to determine what should be done about it . |
| 29 | I think she was surprised that such a question could occur to me . |