Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually of marble . |
| 2 | There was only two teaching staff at Little Stonham , and the headmistress , both of who were friendly and always cheerful . |
| 3 | The thrones they sat on were fluted and heavily decorated with clusters of mother-of-pearl along the back and arms . |
| 4 | The police , he said , were terrific and quickly found that some non-paying spectators were being smuggled in courtesy buses from the hotels and , in a few cases , hidden in car boots ! |
| 5 | I wanted things that were solid and well made , and of course safe ; that was more important to me than appearance . |
| 6 | TOWA WAS BORN IN JAPAN , and though his parents were also born there , his grandparents were Korean and so is his passport . |
| 7 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 8 | He felt it was his duty to protect the girl if her claims against her father were right and just not a 1 5-year-old girl 's fantasies ’ . |
| 9 | They were tall and straight , their branches covered with clusters of fine blue-green leaves shaped like needles . |
| 10 | They were sharp-faced and casually clad . |
| 11 | Lobbies were unheated and so if you hung your coat up wet then wet it stayed . |
| 12 | It was a beautiful cloudless morning and the canopies of the plane trees were lush and transparently golden with sunlight . |
| 13 | The parents , their lawyers and supporters , as well as the Islands Council and their own legal advisers , were aghast and very angry . |
| 14 | The names designated were strange and totally new to her . |
| 15 | As a consequence an underclass was evolving — football hooligans , muggers , inner city rioters — somewhat more frightening than their Dickensian forebears because they were mobile and all too visible . |
| 16 | This was the usual practice when mail was given out : a recipient of a letter would normally get 150 , two letters 300 , and the penalties for a parcel were 500 and above depending on its contents . |
| 17 | His apologies to Rain were hasty and then he was gone , leaving her with her coffee and the Italian with instructions about calling her a cab . |
| 18 | In the remaining three patients ( AL in two and AH in one ) , however , the obstructive symptoms were persistent and quite resistant to total parenteral nutrition treatment . |
| 19 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The middle classes , based on manufacture in the emerging industrial towns , and a working class made out of these self-same developments , gained a consciousness of the fact that they were unrepresented and politically disadvantaged within the eighteenth-century constitution . |
| 22 | Thus although his territories were extensive and almost equal to those of his elder brother , the military might and command of the famous Frankish warriors remained mainly with Charles . |
| 23 | His features were strong and rather austere , and his high cheekbones gave him a distinction that was all his own , though the line of his well-cut mouth hinted at a sensuality that disturbed her without her knowing why . |
| 24 | The hind limbs were strong and apparently adapted for scratch-digging , and Hyperodapedon could presumably dig up edible tubers and roots . |
| 25 | If I may say so very well councillor and you were specific and indeed backed up the particular figures , even though of course one is entitled to the that I thought it was fair and well argued . |
| 26 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 27 | Er it , it worked very well for ninety percent of the time , but there was occasions when wind direction was wrong , and the noise levels were high and so on . |
| 28 | Passage controls were few and well spaced out , so most crews reached Dover with a fairly uneventful run . |
| 29 | Attempts to map scanning characteristics against industry type were few and generally unsuccessful ( B.4 ) . |
| 30 | Portholes were few and usually hatched over with leering daemon masks . |