Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think this was the case , though , as many women did conform and those who stuck out in the way of Madeline Vesey Neroni and Mrs. Proudie were few and far between — few dared to be too independent or to try and think for themselves . |
| 2 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
| 3 | The disproportionate hold it has on the psyche of white South Africa was evident as soon as the two-pronged Antipodean assault on the previously unconquered Springbok citadel got underway . |
| 4 | Then the man in Riga asked if it was cold in Leningrad , and we said yes it was , and the man in Riga said you had to expect it now , and that the Riga Hotel was modern and well heated as long as it was n't damp . |
| 5 | Only H. W. Taylor was married or over 30 , and Viljoen 's diary suggests a vigorous special existence between Tests — which may have contributed to the welter of dropped catches which helped sway the issue . |
| 6 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 7 | Although Chi Chi was forty-six or so , he could still play some , and in the eighteen months I was with him he actually broke two course records on the tour . |
| 8 | In December 1946 de Gaulle was further than ever from power , while the world was closer to war . |
| 9 | In Great Britain change was later and perhaps less systematic ; but by the reign of George III British ambassadors were always provided by the government with a secretary of embassy , while by the later 1780s the more important legations were also being included in this arrangement . |
| 10 | So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art . |
| 11 | The central communications office of HMS Omega was large and surprisingly light , with white-painted bulkheads and an excess of highly polished copper and brass . |
| 12 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 13 | Hayley Burton was thin and very pale , with small sores around her mouth and nose , greasy fair hair that had n't been washed in weeks , and dark-shadowed pale blue eyes . |
| 14 | The apartment maintained by Ladram Avionics on Park Avenue was small but comfortably fitted out in contemporary style . |
| 15 | Contrary to what she had imagined , James Longley was young and rather charming . |
| 16 | Reza Shah was literate but scarcely educated . |
| 17 | Clive and Stokes then took stock of their position : Clive was now over 65 and looking to retire ; John Stokes was 61 and very much involved in public life as the MP for Halesowen and Stourbridge . |
| 18 | She tried a diary , but it reiterated circuitously and boringly that Frederica Potter was bored and also , to her shame , homesick . |