Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 2 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 3 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 4 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 5 | The success was phenomenal and soon the company opened factories in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | The competition was fierce and only a few could obtain the valuable passports , visas and tickets to leave the confines of China . |
| 7 | Her movements as she set the inverted cups upright on their saucers and manipulated milk jug , teapot and hot water jug were precise and just a little fussy . |
| 8 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 9 | The press was far and away the most important section of the audience . |
| 10 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 11 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |