Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , 167 ( 44 per cent ) legs were oedematous and pain was experienced in 121 ( 72 per cent ) of these : this finding was statistically significant ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 2 | The animals ' cages were smaller than Government guidelines and contained no bedding or playthings . |
| 3 | This was judged by patient history and counting residual tablets ( the placebo and ursodeoxycholic acid were given double blind ) when the prescriptions were renewed and compliance in taking the prescribed tablets were excellent . |
| 4 | Imagine a world in which gold and silver were cheap but iron and aluminium were rare , what advantages would there be making a car from gold instead of iron and saucepans from silver instead of aluminium . |
| 5 | His hobbies were horse-shoeing and cricket — he established the first cricket club in Worcester . |
| 6 | The street looked very different from its Sunday image ; the shops were open and delivery vans effectively blocked the way for all but the most resolute pedestrians . |
| 7 | My two main subjects were English and music , so I was spending a large part of every day doing the things I loved most . |
| 8 | The boy 's eyes were dark and level , dense as the Arab 's . |
| 9 | His eyes were small and wide-set , bright like a ferret 's . |
| 10 | Her blue eyes were cold as slate as she turned to her husband . |
| 11 | I had not yet decided whether her eyes were grey or hazel . |
| 12 | Ownership was constantly disputed and borders were vague and ill-defined , but Tuscany , Spoleto and Ancona and parts of the Romagna were all in papal sights by the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | Dundee were furious when Palace publicly stated that he was on their shopping list . |
| 14 | Islanders were concerned that pollution from the proposed mine would damage the islands supply of water , as well as contaminating their land and fishing grounds , the main livelihood on the island . |
| 15 | Moreover , the bill purchases were due to a large extent to overfunding of the PSBR through sales of gilts so the Bank was effectively carrying out a maturity transformation in the market and one which , at times , entailed a " cost " ( as bill yields were lower than gilt yields ) . |
| 16 | The living were aware that death would come and claim them and aware of the power of the dead in the hereafter . |
| 17 | The talks were boycotted by Syria and Lebanon who stated that the multilateral sessions were worthless until progress had been made in the bilateral sessions . |
| 18 | The expression in his eyes was tender and kind . |
| 19 | The announcements were prompted by a parliamentary report claiming that the entire police force was over-bureaucratic and bungling . |
| 20 | Armscott Manor was vast and rambling , admittedly . |
| 21 | Common good was paramount while individualism and self-interest were of lesser importance . |
| 22 | The once gleaming whitewash was dark and smoke-blackened ; in places the plaster had fallen away to reveal the messy rubble-walling beneath . |
| 23 | He never lost hope and his mind was clear and calm . |
| 24 | Corbett just sat staring at the wet walls : the cell was narrow and fetid , a grating high in the wall gave a little air and light . |
| 25 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 26 | Lucy was shy as hell , and Jay was sure and easy . |
| 27 | Although lipase secretion was not significantly lower in the post-acute pancreatitis patients , when mean enzyme secretion was expressed as a percentage of the control mean lipase secretion was lower than trypsin . |
| 28 | Far off , Friend was amber and musk , velvet and rose . |
| 29 | For most of the period up to the beginning of the Second World War , labour was plentiful and unemployment rates varied from moderate to the very high rates of the depression . |
| 30 | Although Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) were able to demonstrate an apparent loss of latent inhibition over a long retention interval using chocolate milk as the CS , no effect was apparent when saccharin was used . |