Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were red-rimmed but the set of her mouth was as severe as that of a judge . |
| 2 | His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls . |
| 3 | The first , Carry On Sergeant in 1958 , was made for £71,000 — and Thomas claims they were aghast when the cost of the second , Carry On Nurse , went up to £75,000 . |
| 4 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 5 | Many other permutations were possible but the future of the house did cause worry , There was even a rumour that the local authority was to acquire it and turn it into some kind of museum . |
| 6 | Mainz was a see where Staufen interests were strong and a majority of the princes elected Lupold , bishop of Worms , a strong adherent of Philip , and a man of few scruples . |
| 7 | The ratios of liver to plasma free leucine enrichment at the end of the measurement period were lower than the value of 95% seen in muscle with the same protocol , which compares with 50% to 80% in muscle when [ C ] leucine is infused as a tracer dose . |
| 8 | An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck southern California on June 28 , killing at least one person and injuring several others ; casualties were light because the epicentre of the 15-second tremor was deep beneath the San Gabriel Mountains , 65 km north of Los Angeles . |
| 9 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 10 | Its employees were afraid that the death of the expansionist Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 would lead to disorder and disintegration , and events in the next half-century showed they were right . |
| 11 | Where statistics on socio-economic factors were accessible and the effect of these could be controlled , age was shown to be somewhat less powerful as a determinant of health among adolescents during pregnancy and confinement . |
| 12 | What was it they said about people who were convinced that the rest of the world was plotting against them ? |
| 13 | On Cambodia , " the two sides were convinced that the improvement of Sino-Vietnamese relations could contribute to spurring a comprehensive political solution " . |
| 14 | The judges were convinced that the fear of capital punishment was a real deterrent , and it was difficult to see what effective alternative punishment could be inflicted on murderers . |
| 15 | All the findings of opinion polls and other surveys suggested that the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens were convinced that the period of their nation 's history through which they had lived in the forty-odd years since the end of the war in 1945 , was a time of comfort and content . |
| 16 | They had set a target of £5,000 , the same amount that was raised in Manchester and Salford in 1981 , and were delighted when a record of £6,141 was collected . |
| 17 | When the news was fully appreciated the delegates according to The BDN , " were uncontrollable and a sea of hands raced through the air in deaf applause . " |
| 18 | His cheek-bones were prominent and the paleness of the skin stretched over them was accentuated by the darkness which ran like a stain round his eyes . |
| 19 | Murray was becoming increasingly flamboyant in style , which meant that his rages were fearful when the rest of the team did not get him what he wanted . |
| 20 | They were lucky when the freehold of the old Aquarium Theatre , opposite Westminster Abbey , came up for sale . |
| 21 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 22 | The effort and the approach were exceptional and the degree of involvement of the team . |
| 23 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 24 | The President , Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Keith Williamson and Lady Williamson were present when the Standard of the Association was paraded at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 25 | Commitment and concentration were better if the bulk of the day 's work was past . |
| 26 | Markets were buoyant and the maintenance of a high level of demand was thought to be the key to sustained prosperity . |
| 27 | By early 1922 tempers were short and the Chairman of the Central Council publicized the dispute in March with an open letter to Austen Chamberlain . |
| 28 | They were less than a quarter of a kilometre from the castle . |
| 29 | His cheeks were full and the colour of the port which he was so fond . |
| 30 | No one doubted that the disqualification remained in force so far as clergymen of the Church of England were concerned but the position of clergymen of the Irish Church remained in doubt until the election of one of them , the Rev. MacManaway , in 1950 . |