Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The forest to the south of the Swamp was hilly and comparatively open . |
| 3 | Now bearing in mind what we were saying about exchange rates before the break , if the pound was strong that obviously implied that people wanted to buy sterling , but what goods did they want to buy off us ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Often the skirt was frilled as well making it impossible for the audience to see where the skirt ended and the knickers began . |
| 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 | Equipment was conventional but well maintained . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His body was hard and fearfully aroused and her skin , cooled by the water , raced with pleasure . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All three studies confirmed the Best and Gemberling ( 1977 ) effect when the exposure duration was brief but also found that more prolonged initial exposure generated latent inhibition both when the exposure-conditioning interval was short ( 3–4 h ) and when it was long ( 24 h or more ) . |
| 19 | ‘ And you 've had to live with this , knowing what she was doing was wrong and yet showing such concern for her . |
| 20 | Her room was small but nicely furnished , and she smiled at the sight of a posy of flowers in a vase on the dressing-table . |
| 21 | The responding smile was well-meant but understandably limp . |
| 22 | Kebbel was tall and powerfully built , his somewhat heavy features tending to coarseness with middle age . |
| 23 | The water was shallow and hardly came up their knees . |
| 24 | Radicalism can and should offer an alternative formulation which is positive , which makes it possible not just to see that one 's previous knowledge was incorrect but also to understand more about the world . |
| 25 | George 's insobriety was disturbing and even wounding to his friends . |
| 26 | He was indeed notorious for scheduling numerous rehearsals even for pieces he and the orchestra knew backwards , but his repertoire was wider than commonly imagined , and there is some unsuspected treasure in his discography . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The nurse on duty the next morning was pretty and obviously fancied him . |
| 29 | This exhibition was solid and well produced , the images drifting through concocted tales of the artist 's imaginings . |
| 30 | The woman was uninjured but extremely upset . |