Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The killings were duly lawful and the defence acting for us will be making that point . ’ |
| 2 | The keys were rather dirty and the ribbon wearing out , which is why the letters which ought to be open , like the ‘ e ’ and the ‘ a ’ , are n't giving sharp outlines . |
| 3 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
| 4 | The growing and ripening characteristics were most promising and the grain made excellent bread . |
| 5 | Conditions were extremely arduous and the work exhausting but at least , as one former prisoner testified years later , unlike conventional prisons all over Spain , there was neither the obligation to sing the Falangist hymn , nor the nightly selection ( saca ) of prisoners to be shot next day . |
| 6 | The driving standards were extremely high and the event was enjoyed by all who attended . |
| 7 | The application was defended on the basis that discovery would be contrary to public interest as the reports were highly confidential and the fact that they might be used in litigation would inhibit the doctors preparing such reports in the future . |
| 8 | Canals were appreciably slower and the advantage of improved roads actually increased in this respect . |
| 9 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
| 10 | In rats given platelet activating factor , both oedema and leucocyte infiltration were less pronounced and the vacuolisation was observed in less than 25% of acinar cells ( Table II ) . |
| 11 | The instruments for punishing prison rioters were already available and the offence was unnecessary . |
| 12 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |
| 13 | While the men chosen are the Chiefs who were already pro-government and the move is largely interpreted as window-dressing , it is more important than that . |
| 14 | The majority of cases with sustained coverage involved young girls ( including a couple of cases where the victim was under 10 ) who were usually alone and the focus of a single attack . |
| 15 | A curious place , Sir John reflected , at the heart of Southwark 's squalor , yet the ales and wine were always fresh and the food delicious . |
| 16 | The heat shields were still intact and the computer assured him that they would not crack or fall off on the journey through the atmosphere . |
| 17 | At that time the old doctrines of the need for democratic control were still strong and an argument arose between those , such as Mr Aneurin Bevan , who favoured total subordination to Parliament ( with a minister for each industry on the lines of the Post Office ) , and those led by Mr Herbert Morrison , who wanted to leave the industries a measure of independence to operate as fully commercial undertakings . |
| 18 | In February or March , when spring was waiting to burst out but the trees were still leafless and the earth grey and cold , Sophia used sometimes to pretend that she was in Italy — not necessarily in a beautiful or famous part but perhaps in some obscure little town in the Alban Hills or a dusty coastal village between Naples and Sorrento . |
| 19 | All the windows were wide open and the room was pleasantly cool . |
| 20 | Rehearsals were nearly complete and a replacement for her was out of the question at such short notice . |
| 21 | It was a good day and Svolvær looked rather a special place , but we were now tired and a campsite was priority . |
| 22 | There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong . |
| 23 | The roads were quite flooded and the weather was not improving . |
| 24 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 25 | DIP first began as a concept around 1980 , but at that time the components were prohibitively expensive and the software needed to drive them was very rudimentary . |
| 26 | They were very ripe and the juice had squirted on to his shirt-front like bloodstains . |
| 27 | Isolation facilities were very limited and the clerk was directed to write to the County Council enquiring whether they intended to provide a sanatorium for ‘ consumption ’ . |
| 28 | Plot sizes were very small and the distance between them large . |
| 29 | The two brothers were very close and no writer I can think of has such a hatred of death as Canetti . |
| 30 | Gradually the fever subsided and all the skin peeled from her body , but her limbs were very stiff and the doctor insisted that she should stay in bed , lying flat as far as possible . |