Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These paper notes , redeemable in gold or silver were transferable and thus gave rise to the use of paper money in England . |
| 2 | In the old days , researchers in the military sector were pampered while scientists in civil research were ill-equipped and badly paid , with few prospects for promotion or international recognition . |
| 3 | In years past this contest was unregulated and often resulted in the destruction of large parts of Altdorf and widespread carnage amongst the civilian population . |
| 4 | The forest to the south of the Swamp was hilly and comparatively open . |
| 5 | His mouth was wide and well cut , with a deeply indented upper lip , and a decidedly grim set to it , and there was something about him which kept her rigid with tension beneath the covers . |
| 6 | His handsomeness was a little battered now , but he still had the wolfish look she remembered from years ago — long face , strong jaw , broad brow ; his mouth was full and slightly lopsided , which gave him a crooked grin . |
| 7 | The shikar lobby was strong and well organized and naturally argued that the tiger population was holding its own . |
| 8 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 9 | The boy was offhand and always trying to be clever . |
| 10 | The common-room was large and comfortably furnished and at the far end included pool tables , dartboards and table tennis . |
| 11 | Even so , Dr Neil 's modest home was larger and better appointed than most around Vetch Street , and was vast compared with the one stifling room she had briefly occupied in Crow Court . |
| 12 | Leonora , the creative one , was perfectly happy to get on with her knitting in her little nook in the shop , help with the customers when trade was brisk , type what correspondence was necessary and otherwise leave Elise to the hard sell . |
| 13 | Therefore in the USA the methods of collective bargaining associated with the heyday of competitive capitalism were outmoded and eventually destroyed along with the breaking by employers of union control of the labour process . |
| 14 | Her body was slight and flawlessly formed , her hair was a soft , golden cap , her skin was translucent , her features delicate and regular and her eyes were light green and shone like a summer field in the midday sun . |
| 15 | His body was hard and fearfully aroused and her skin , cooled by the water , raced with pleasure . |
| 16 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 17 | ‘ And you 've had to live with this , knowing what she was doing was wrong and yet showing such concern for her . |
| 18 | Kebbel was tall and powerfully built , his somewhat heavy features tending to coarseness with middle age . |
| 19 | The water was shallow and hardly came up their knees . |
| 20 | George 's insobriety was disturbing and even wounding to his friends . |
| 21 | AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident , the Australian insurance company bidding £1.1bn for Pearl Group , yesterday reiterated that its 605p per share cash offer was generous and fully valued the company . |
| 22 | The nurse on duty the next morning was pretty and obviously fancied him . |
| 23 | This exhibition was solid and well produced , the images drifting through concocted tales of the artist 's imaginings . |
| 24 | Benn 's strategy was simple and well timed . |
| 25 | The catalogue was large and glossily bound . |
| 26 | In view of the confessions made the jury were satisfied and formally pronounced John guilty . |
| 27 | If our society were pure and well regulated , yes , they would be seducers ; but now , in my opinion , one may often consider them sisters of charity . ’ |
| 28 | While hundreds of men were passing through the union 's offices , those of the Shipping Federation were dirty and virtually abandoned ; " not a living soul in many of them throughout the country " . |
| 29 | Here as in the rest of the house , the furniture was good and well cared for . |
| 30 | The sky was low and constantly shifting as different layers of grey and black cloud were dragged around by gusty winds . |