Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for breaking our vows were pecuniary and made financial sense . |
| 2 | Of these two , sentence ( i ) was favoured : The justifications offered by the groups who chose ( i ) as the crucial opening sentence were interesting and merit some consideration . |
| 3 | Some large examples in important towns such as Rome , Constantinople , Milan , Trier and in the Holy Land were complex designs ( pages 94 , 96 and 173 and XVII ) which might possess more than one hall , or were multi-aisled and had several apses . |
| 4 | They were dark-skinned and wore tight trousers . |
| 5 | Europe and Japan were dismayed and angered last month by comments from the US government that ignored their significant roles in the programme ( Japan is contributing a similar module ) . |
| 6 | Among those who were horrified and given great difficulty by the music were the players of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra . |
| 7 | One or two of the girls were impressed and imagined some dark , passionate , beautiful , Sophia-Loren type lurking in the background . |
| 8 | The Board members were impressed and requested similar presentations for the entire staff . |
| 9 | Fifth , the children were happy and making good progress in care . |
| 10 | One reason for this was that all officers of the Associations were honorary and had other jobs which kept them busy . |
| 11 | Now when they were busy and had important people in our dining room at Ipswich , there was one , there were two waiters . |
| 12 | The cells were generally bare with stone ‘ beds ’ , but were clean and had integral toilets and water taps . |
| 13 | The British Medical Association estimated that 20 per cent of abortions were criminal and using that figure David Glass calculated that a total of 68,000 criminal abortions took place in 1935 . |
| 14 | His adaptations of late Gothic and northern Renaissance styles were influential and had many admirers . |
| 15 | Originally they were gilded and had blue backgrounds . |
| 16 | The bullets from the helicopter were wild and causing more trouble to its own troops than to Adam . |
| 17 | Yacoubou told the Group how student demonstrators were arrested and sent to prison in remote areas , where they were ill-treated and denied any contact with their families . |
| 18 | He was precocious and enjoyed mischievous pursuits . |
| 19 | In this case the interior was dry and provided useful garden storage . |
| 20 | Because I was loud and had red hair , I always played hookers in TV series like Bergerac , The Sweeney , Fox and Minder . ’ |
| 21 | Unlike her sister , Sandy , Evelyn was tall and had red hair . |
| 22 | While Mr Gould said membership of the ERM was ‘ not in play ’ , he nevertheless believed the rate at which sterling was taken in was indefensible and gave little room to develop a coherent economic strategy . |
| 23 | The homework was interesting and demanded more investigation and some discussion with parents : she - the teacher — provided some useful clues for those who could not find names in an encyclopaedia . |
| 24 | The standard was high and excluded foul language . |
| 25 | Communication with a roving agent was always fraught with difficulties , but Leone was dilatory and displayed little sense of urgency as the new season approached : Giardini impulsively began to open up negotiations himself , resulting in an increasingly frenetic tone to the correspondence . |
| 26 | Gran was lovely — I know she was old and had awful clothes , but everyone loved her and she had a lovely face , like a statue . ’ |
| 27 | He argued that social progress towards a free-enterprise society was inevitable and saw progressive evolution as a useful foundation upon which to build a philosophy of cosmic development that would include the human race . |
| 28 | This house was large and had four bedrooms . |
| 29 | By the 1960s he was married and had two children , a son and a daughter . |
| 30 | He was married and had one child , a son . |