Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Labour MPs were incensed the Government had ignored surveys showing the majority of Britons want royals to pay tax . |
| 62 | We were lucky the bridge did n't come down . |
| 63 | If the prey were large the carnosaur could not have eaten it all at once . |
| 64 | well considering we were sick the day before I shall think that will really do us in |
| 65 | ’ … and Millie was sick on that man 's hat when we were oan the roller-coaster . ‘ |
| 66 | We need new blood , new talent ( Kelly looked fine to me ) and not rely on players who were suspect a couple of years ago . |
| 67 | Secondly , many islands with barrier reefs also have fringing reefs within , whereas if they were subsiding the interior fringing reef should be converted to a barrier reef . |
| 68 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 69 | Were glad the guidance has finally arrived , however we feel it 's a pity it could not have been more accurate ’ . |
| 70 | Last night , major retail chains said they were confident the Government 's latest figures were borne out in their sales , and in at least one case , Scotland appeared to be performing better than England . |
| 71 | Capt Adams said some people at the base were confident the event could go ahead as planned . |
| 72 | In the early days of what was a massive police investigation , officers were confident the killer would be found and the £500 sum was considered appropriate . |
| 73 | They should then have told the representatives , all of whom were present the day before , what they intended to do . |
| 74 | When one or more of premature labour , membranes ruptured longer than 18 hours , or intrapartum fever were present the attack rate rose to 7.6 per 1000 , while in the absence of risk factors it fell to 0.6 per 1000 . |
| 75 | The ‘ shimmering trees ’ lining the track were long a feature of the Autumn Illuminations . |
| 76 | Now that names no longer get the tax breaks that were long the market 's main attraction , it is an outdated nonsense . |
| 77 | The popular classes entered on the political scene in France earlier than elsewhere , and the petits bourgeois were long the arbiter of the popular . |
| 78 | My companions complained of the lack of hands-on , push-button displays , a prerequisite for the young these days , but they enjoyed the state banquet and the rooms , and were sure the show would be a great success with tourists . |
| 79 | Well they they were all no well you could maybe aye they help aye but er usually they had as much as they could do themselves you see . |
| 80 | Fforde makes much of the importance of archives and private correspondence as the means to discover ‘ true intentions ’ , so why did Austen Chamberlain not simply drop Hugh Cecil a note to let him know that his speeches in favour of tariffs and pensions were all a put-up job ? |
| 81 | To tell the truth , I think they were all a bit scared of him . |
| 82 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 83 | They were all a bit afraid of what Ifor would say if they did wrong . |
| 84 | One general practitioner , who works in a large multipartner practice in Worksop , said that the community care reforms were all a bit of a mystery . |
| 85 | You were all a bit concerned I suppose ? |
| 86 | " At lunch we were all a bit subdued , " he said . |
| 87 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 88 | We tried lots of rehearsal spaces but they were all a rip off and totally out of the way . |
| 89 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 90 | They were all a pound . |