Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His legs were supple and strongly muscled , and Grainne half closed her eyes , and let her mind race forward , and anticipated the feel of his thighs against her … |
| 2 | Hoomey 's thin arms and legs were hard and gristly ; he was getting more like Nails every day . |
| 3 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 4 | Among the many new and original talks personalities brought to Canadian listeners from the west coast were two that really caught the public imagination . |
| 5 | All these solutions were current and much discussed . |
| 6 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 7 | Speyside was an area where the units were large and almost exclusively family farms . |
| 8 | It is probably quite likely that the foreigners were honest and hard working , keeping themselves much to themselves but it was clearly a tinder-box situation with the tiniest spark capable of leading to a conflagration . |
| 9 | These paper notes , redeemable in gold or silver were transferable and thus gave rise to the use of paper money in England . |
| 10 | His stands alienated the richer members so that his ministries were short and ill paid . |
| 11 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 12 | In the 1960's computers were rare and very expensive and the only text acquisition method for corpus compilers was manual input . |
| 13 | In 1989 bonuses were smaller but still significant : 2.3 percentage points for Fianna Fail , 3.8 for Fine Gael , 6.1 altogether . |
| 14 | Its beauty awed her so that her thanks were quiet and almost reverent . |
| 15 | The traditional system suppliers such as VBS with their Beacon system and Genigraphics were few and far between while Matrix , now part of Agfa , was the dominant supplier of medium-priced film recorders . |
| 16 | Until recently , diesel cars were slow and very noisy , the theory being that this was the price you had to pay for economy . |
| 17 | When I was finally called one wintry Monday by the neighbours , she looked quite dreadful ; her faced was bruised from several falls the previous night , she was struggling for her breath , her legs and thighs were painful and very swollen . |
| 18 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 19 | He peered under his ancient hat at Jill , who noticed that his eyes were blue and very bright , although his face was old and seamed and wrinkled . |
| 20 | Outwardly , she had recovered her composure but her eyes were watchful as well as sad . |
| 21 | Her eyes were puffy and still full of tears . |
| 22 | They were nice lips , beautifully curved , and his eyes were brown and very round . |
| 23 | The eyes were protuberant and surprisingly wide , a washed blue or grey in colour . |
| 24 | Those large eyes were disconcerting and somehow overheated . |
| 25 | His eyes were deep-set and almost feverish , shining out from under craggy brows . |
| 26 | His eyes were narrower than ever , almost slits . |
| 27 | Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn . |
| 28 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 29 | These test confirmed that the initial technical designs were feasible and indeed acceptable . |
| 30 | Cranes of the size required to handle the new prototype Fast Afloat Boat were few and far between — and even more expensive to hire . |