Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually of marble . |
| 2 | She turned to him and he saw her eyes were clear and out of pain . |
| 3 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 4 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 5 | He was puffing and out of breath . |
| 6 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 7 | Seems to me that there was some and then of course the Wave of Life |
| 8 | Central government intervention into public health , sanitation and housing was cautious and piecemeal in comparison with Chadwick 's conception of a centralized supervisory network . |
| 9 | She was ageless and even in age would , I knew , be careless . |
| 10 | I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for all the cards , letters and offers of help sent to wish David well when he was ill and then in sympathy when he died . |
| 11 | Joe sat down , he was red and out of breath . |
| 12 | To make sure that their knowledge of enemy military procedure was correct and up to date , Buck had also recruited a couple of Afrika Korps men who had been taken prisoner . |