Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I weighed 10 stone before I was nine months old ; by 14 months I was 15 stone and six feet tall standing on my back legs . |
| 2 | From these beginnings Leonard founded the Co-operative Holidays Association which was non-profit making and became popular enough for advertisements to be placed in Christian World in 1893 , offering CHA run rambling holidays in the Lake District . |
| 3 | Ezekiel states that the unit for his visionary temple was ‘ the long cubit which was one cubit and a hand 's breadth , ’ and moreover that the overall dimensions of the temple were 100 cubits square . |
| 4 | Thus , in order to increase the perceived representativeness of the National Council of the Resistance and to dilute the influence of the Communist Party within it , he insisted that all the major prewar parties — even the centrist and conservative parties which were mere phantoms in 1943 — should be represented in it alongside the new resistance movements . |
| 5 | He was shocked to see that this beard , unlike his hair and whiskers which were dark brown in colour , was sprouting with an atheistical tint of ginger , only a little darker than the whiskers of the free-thinking Magistrate . |
| 6 | The curving pond , flanked with stunning peonies which were another legacy of the garden and thrive in London 's clay-based soil , is an experiment , says Patricia , that she intends to improve on this summer . |
| 7 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 8 | Lunatic to reckon that it would work for him … but only as stupid as the acceptance of the alternative which was fourteen years in the camps . |
| 9 | This is compared with the 1990 figure which was some 35% higher . |
| 10 | Methods had been changed , and officers were now engaged in much more intelligence and research work to identify vessels which were potential carriers and people who might be smuggling . |
| 11 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 12 | Film was nothing in itself but what had confirmed its worthlessness was that it seemed the exclusive property of a class of showmen who were direct descendants of the old fairground showmen . |
| 13 | Last Tuesday she was all smiles as she left the High Court joking with Judith Mellor . |
| 14 | As fighting continued , thousands of refugees fled to Zagreb to escape from Serbian fighters who were seizing territory and advancing amid the supportive bombardment of the army . |
| 15 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 16 | Katherine , a book-keeper who shared Patrick 's passion for horse-racing , adored the poet who was 20 years her senior . |
| 17 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 18 | Gentlemen who were early baronets of Scotland were authorised to charge their arms with a canton ( or escutcheon ) carrying the arms of the province of Nova Scotia — argent on a saltire azure an escutcheon of the Royal Amis of Scotland . |
| 19 | If nobody gets an overall majority , the candidate coming last is eliminated and his votes go to the candidates who were second preference . |
| 20 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 21 | Shocked friends and colleagues spoke last night of the two brothers who were keen sportsmen . |
| 22 | Shocked friends and colleagues spoke last night of the two brothers who were keen sportsmen . |
| 23 | Fellow students remember her being smitten by the tall , good looking Courtney who was 11 years her senior . |
| 24 | Here , imagine the old Bill thinking we was old brasses ! ’ |
| 25 | We have already suggested that along with the use of child labour there was little uniformity either chronologically or geographically about the employment of women in coal mines . |
| 26 | On either side there was open parkland grazed by a herd of red deer — or , now that it was December and the males were apart , two herds . |
| 27 | In the large bottom drawer on that side there were two books — one , a medical encyclopedia and the other , a technical work on the human endocrine system . |
| 28 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 29 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were two pronunciations of ME a in use in Standard English ’ ( 1968 II : 548 ) . |
| 30 | With the syringe there were two ways to go , intravenous and cardiac , ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ tending to champion the latter as more efficient and humane . |