Example sentences of "be [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheriff James Smith told Daniels that his actions had been foolish and the offence was serious . |
| 2 | Bidding at the antiques and collectors items auction had been lively and the programme was bought by a man from Chelmsford , she said . |
| 3 | Both defendants were accepted to be negligent and the plaintiff was contributorily negligent . |
| 4 | In July Burmin went on the offensive by issuing a circular on myths and facts relating to the mining , which suggested that gold mining could be turned into a tourist attraction , said no cyanide spills would take place , the visual impact on Croagh Patrick would be minimal and the Church was not opposed to the mining . |
| 5 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 6 | Last season £18,000 in bar takings were found to be missing but no culprit was ever found . |
| 7 | The mother 's objection was not found to be unreasonable and no suggestion was made to allow adoption with a condition of access so as not to deprive the ten year old of the security that goes with adoption compared to long-term foster care . |
| 8 | McGoldrick said : ‘ The chairman can be blunt and the target was his way of getting at me about my goalscoring record . |
| 9 | Apart from the cut-off , and the known greater sensitivity of the top half of the RAM no vertical variation in sensitivity has been apparent and no experiment was conducted to measure this more precisely . |
| 10 | It may have been revolting but the effect was wonderful . |
| 11 | Much later , when the children were asleep and the house was quiet once more , Beth lay in bed beside her husband . |
| 12 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 13 | West Indies had had their triumphs before , of course , but now things were different ; they were no longer inferior to whites , they were unified , they were strong and the future was theirs . |
| 14 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 15 | It was not unsuccessful , but development costs were high and the market was not there . |
| 16 | Like every other funeral I have attended , laughs were few and the weather was bloody awful . |
| 17 | Now Maggie learned that falling and flying were different and the difference was fear . |
| 18 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 19 | Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution ; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar . |
| 20 | On the day of the explosion winds were calm and the gas was slow to dissipate . |
| 21 | The participants were willing and the setting was ideal ; they 'd been close to it often enough , so what was happening now ? |
| 22 | ‘ The lads were tremendous and the club was run for the players . |
| 23 | Slowly Irina reached up and touched her head ; the windows were shaded and the room was in semi-darkness . |
| 24 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 25 | The early years in Tennessee were hard and the family was frequently hungry , but in 1868 Frances , who from her earliest childhood had been a compulsive inventor of romances , sold her first two stories to Godey 's Lady 's Book , raising the money for paper and postage by selling wild grapes . |
| 26 | Only women were present and the service was orientated towards women . |
| 27 | Bookings were typically made through the visitors ' secretaries : agency bookings were infrequent and no use was made of reservation systems , either local or national . |
| 28 | The elm paddles of the iron wheel were renewed and the mechanism was modified to operate on the ‘ undershot ’ principle because a lowering of water levels brought about by a local flood alleviation scheme made impracticable the restoration of the original ‘ breast-shot ’ arrangement . |
| 29 | The shadows were sparse and the light was cruel , as though the noonday devil had taken more than his share out of malice and greed . |
| 30 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |