Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
2 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
5 | Young Roberto 's mother died when he was eight and thereafter the boy rarely left the family villa of Baronta near Florence . |
6 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
7 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
8 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |
9 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
10 | The success was phenomenal and soon the company opened factories in other parts of the United Kingdom . |