Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adj] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His legs were supple and strongly muscled , and Grainne half closed her eyes , and let her mind race forward , and anticipated the feel of his thighs against her … |
| 2 | All these solutions were current and much discussed . |
| 3 | It is probably quite likely that the foreigners were honest and hard working , keeping themselves much to themselves but it was clearly a tinder-box situation with the tiniest spark capable of leading to a conflagration . |
| 4 | His stands alienated the richer members so that his ministries were short and ill paid . |
| 5 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 6 | Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn . |
| 7 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |
| 8 | The hind limbs were strong and apparently adapted for scratch-digging , and Hyperodapedon could presumably dig up edible tubers and roots . |
| 9 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 10 | As the duties were light and rapidly becoming merely nominal owing to the continued refusal of the war to start , Charles fetched Clarissa from her theatre nearly every night to take her dancing at one famous rendezvous or another . |
| 11 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 12 | Extra artillery and troops were drafted in , and an attempt was made to plug the gaps with extra forts , yet by the 1740s the defence lines were crooked and poorly organized . |
| 13 | The path to the next set of ruins was steeper and less travelled than the previous one . |
| 14 | Roman bridges were well and simply designed and solidly constructed . |
| 15 | From the beginning of 1946 Soviet troops were efficient and well disciplined ; they were not liked but were respected . |
| 16 | The attacks were short and occasionally occurred at night ( she woke up before the attacks started ) . |
| 17 | Whereas architectural changes in the small country house had been slowly transitional in the last four hundred years , so that you hardly noticed the slipping of one style into another over , say , a period of fifty years , now the changes were radical and sometimes startling . |
| 18 | These changes were complex and often confused . |
| 19 | All the fittings were shabby and well used , probably obtained through the ‘ small ads ’ column in the local paper . |
| 20 | Whereas in Exeter cathedral , where endowments were modest and equally divided among the chapter members , only a quarter of the twenty-four canons were nonresident during Edward II 's reign , in the cathedrals of York , Lincoln , Wells , Salisbury and Lichfield between two thirds and three quarters of the canons were occupied elsewhere . |
| 21 | In most cases these wives were literate and well informed , but they would smile politely and agree with their husbands . |
| 22 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 23 | Portholes were few and usually hatched over with leering daemon masks . |
| 24 | Passage controls were few and well spaced out , so most crews reached Dover with a fairly uneventful run . |
| 25 | They had no corporate institutions at the provincial level ; they were divided by wide variations in wealth , education , and regional interest ; their consciousness of sharing common interests was vague and little developed . |
| 26 | Clasped on her lap , her fingers were rose-tipped and heavily ringed . |
| 27 | Second , the pace of technological development meant that the advantages to companies from new products or improvements were short-lived and soon overtaken by others . |
| 28 | The half-dozen or so houses were neat and well cared for , yet there was no sign of life at all , not even the yapping of a dog or the cluck of a hen , just the wind stirring the flowers at the road end . |
| 29 | Smith says Coleman 's opinions were final and never underwent revision . |
| 30 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |