Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arms were muscular and adorned with Chinese tattoos . |
| 2 | Clearly differentiated from each other , they were mass-produced and targeted at different sections of a guaranteed market , who knew what they were getting . |
| 3 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
| 4 | Crowns , insignia , crosses , reliquaries and the bindings of liturgical books were dignified and enriched by enamelled iconography studded with pearls and cabochon gems . |
| 5 | ‘ They were masked and armed with deadly weapons . |
| 6 | mRNAs were reverse-transcribed and amplified in serial 10-fold dilutions of RNA using a GeneAmp RNA PCR kit ( Perkin Elmer Cetus ) and primers ( Synthecell ) at 1μM for both cDNA synthesis and amplification . |
| 7 | All the subjects were white and aged between 35 and 59 . |
| 8 | When we were younger and talked about this as our retirement home , people tended to laugh and think we were being pessimistic thinking so far ahead . |
| 9 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 10 | Dexter noticed her fingernails were long and primed with pink varnish . |
| 11 | Beneath an open beige silk trenchcoat she wore a red Louis Féraud dress ; her legs were long and sheathed in fine black nylon . |
| 12 | The cities were beautiful and adorned with all the fine things of the globe . |
| 13 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 14 | Staff in these homes , particularly those who had committed much of their working lives to children in children 's homes , were distressed and confused by these changes . |
| 15 | All five children were musical and destined for academic success and professional careers . |
| 16 | Human evolution was progressive and driven by intellectual ingenuity as societies invented their own adaptive solution . |
| 17 | By the outbreak of war in 1939 , he was 32 and compared with other pilots was an old man to be flying against German fighters . |
| 18 | So great was the growth of passenger traffic in the 1920s that an already vast station was remodelled and enlarged in 1927 . |
| 19 | Grief welled into the deep-set eyes and the reply , when it came , was unsteady and uttered through tightened lips . |
| 20 | She was careful and troubled about many things . |
| 21 | The voice on the other end of the telephone line was abrupt and filled with contained excitement . |
| 22 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 23 | In the early Eighties , McLean , by now the champion of unlicensed boxing , took on Brian ‘ The Mad Gypsy ’ Bradshaw in a fight that was televised and seen by millions . |
| 24 | Anwar was bewildered and irritated by this non sequitur . |
| 25 | The attacker was black and aged between 17 and 20 . |
| 26 | The attacker was black and aged between 17 and 20 . |
| 27 | The influence of Cézanne on contemporary painting was renewed and strengthened by two enormously important exhibitions held in 1907 . |
| 28 | They also sold rubber gas mask tubing which was corrugated and covered in heavy canvas . |
| 29 | Miss Logan was angry and distressed at such Judas-like behaviour , and expressed herself forcibly on the subject to the Armenian priest , who nodded and offered to say prayers for Miss Fergusson . |
| 30 | Now her body was fat and scarred from constant childbearing , and her face wrinkled prematurely from habitual frowning . |