Example sentences of "and was [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy seriously injured in the blast , 12-year-old Timothy Parry , remained in critical condition and was due to have another brain scan today . |
| 2 | Ralph Steadman is currently working with Peacock Artspace and was delighted to see young talent being given an opportunity to display their work . |
| 3 | A fairly rushed programme but involved in going to Stranraer Women 's Guild where she communicated extremely well and was delighted to see Christian Aid work at local level . |
| 4 | Wondering if my worm had been chewed again , I picked up the rod to reel in and was delighted to find another roach on the end . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you really think so little of yourself that that could be all I wanted ? ’ she stabbed back and was pleased to see dull colour rise in his cheeks . |
| 6 | Keith Prowse , Ms Cahill suffered from claustrophobia and was unable to use public transport . |
| 7 | Salvation could only be sought with a leader who possessed personal power and was prepared to take personal responsibility , sweeping away the causes of the misery and the faceless politicians and bureaucrats who prevail over it , and seeming to impose his own personal power upon the force of history itself . |
| 8 | He was entering a study with local authorities on the cost of implementing the measures and was prepared to make appropriate increases in the rate support grant . |
| 9 | Pigou shared Keynes 's analysis of the disequilibrium between savings and investment , and was prepared to endorse public works . |
| 10 | So I respected him , and was glad to work long hours in his stuffy little offices , learning better Spanish and the workings of a paper ; learning also something about Porua , whom I studied with almost servile interest . |
| 11 | She looked back over that stormy summer and was surprised to see each scene , even the ones that had seemed rather painful at the time , shining with an almost holy silver light . |
| 12 | Letter in hand , I returned to the kennels and was surprised to see Sorrel standing by the door of her run , eager and happy . |
| 13 | This was , in fact , not too big a problem : Cracow had a 10pm curfew , and was in any case ‘ dead ’ after 9pm , she said She did try the odd night club and cinema , and was surprised to find English films with Polish sub-titles . |
| 14 | He sent off an application and was puzzled to receive two replies . |
| 15 | Crawford was still in camp during the 1918 season , and was able to perform great feats for Wellington . |
| 16 | This would occur if the winner of the initial contract benefited from learning-by-doing during its execution and was able to appropriate those benefits , enabling him to compete advantageously when terms are renegotiated . |
| 17 | Although the system had been modified in many villages so that the strips fell together instead of being widely separated , everybody , including squatters , had access to the common land and was able to earn some sort of a living from it , and this could be supplemented seasonally by labouring or harvesting for a bigger landowner . |
| 18 | The implication is that Mozart found composition easy and was able to put large works down on paper in a finished state without prior sketches or drafts . |
| 19 | Again he froze it with a quick stare , and was able to repeat this process time and again . |
| 20 | In 1926 I won a scholarship to Hastings High School for Girls , and was able to have four years of Grammar School education . |
| 21 | I was interviewed and was able to share different experiences and stories while in London . |
| 22 | Golla wanted to apply the new method of investigating the brain by recording its electrical activity ( electroencephalogram or EEG ) to clinical problems and was able to provide various types of patients for Walter to study . |
| 23 | Like Hope , he was immensely wealthy , and was able to combine passive politics with active art patronage and writing . |
| 24 | He eventually left his boat and was able to grab one breath of air before being forced down . |
| 25 | He took everything too seriously , and was apt to shoulder all burdens , all responsibilities , to initiate too many schemes for battered women , delinquent children , alcoholics , drug abusers , prostitutes , the old and the destitute . |
| 26 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 27 | At his first appearance in the Movement the Pakistani President , Zia Ul-Haq , accepted its general principles , including ‘ opposition to hegemony or domination in any guise or form ’ , and was careful to avoid anti-Soviet expressions . |
| 28 | In Croatia UNPROFOR had been completely deployed by June 9 and was supposed to take full control of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Serbian Krajina " ( RSK — comprising Serb areas in Croatia ) by June 25 , deployed along the demarcation line between the two sides . |
| 29 | The new King brought a Scottish peer , Lord Bute , into the cabinet ; he had a high opinion of Bute as a political thinker , and was willing to see Scottish opinion conciliated . |
| 30 | Ludens tiptoed into the kitchen and was amazed to see two mugs on the table with remnants of tea in them . |