Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tone was gentle but the words were harsh and Constance wanted to cry . |
| 2 | Fans were stunned and Pybus ' resignation was expected before the start of the new season . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Monday and Tuesday were quiet but Wednesday saw trouble again . |
| 5 | The leaders of the industry were shocked when Lord Chief Justice Goddard sentenced him to six months imprisonment . |
| 6 | Some trades were better than others , " honourable " as opposed to " dishonourable " , and within some trades there were differences between a quality and a poorer end . |
| 7 | The animals ' cages were smaller than Government guidelines and contained no bedding or playthings . |
| 8 | She had , after all , just spent some years in a country where shortages were common and varieties of goods few . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His hobbies were horse-shoeing and cricket — he established the first cricket club in Worcester . |
| 12 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |
| 13 | Heavy-atom parameters were refined and MIR phases calculated using the programs REFINE and PHASE ( P. Shaw , unpublished ) . |
| 14 | Some of the entries were illegible and others were written across the ruled lines and ran into each other , and they were all in scrawly handwriting , which she found very difficult to decipher . |
| 15 | More fundamentally , this was a period when British political parties were fragmented and governments correspondingly unstable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | IT WAS THE YEAR that electric cars were big but two-strokes were bigger as Jaguar told us of a supercharged two-stroke future and Pininfarina let us drive the Ethos . |
| 18 | My two main subjects were English and music , so I was spending a large part of every day doing the things I loved most . |
| 19 | The boy 's eyes were dark and level , dense as the Arab 's . |
| 20 | The grey eyes were sharp as razor-blades . |
| 21 | His eyes were sharp as knives . |
| 22 | His eyes were small and wide-set , bright like a ferret 's . |
| 23 | Her eyes were black as voids , heightened by the black eyeshadow and mascara with which she had augmented them . |
| 24 | Comfort 's hands were clenched over the carved , gilded footboard of the bed and her big grey eyes were anxious when Julia could at last focus on them . |
| 25 | Her blue eyes were cold as slate as she turned to her husband . |
| 26 | The blue eyes were hard as diamonds . |
| 27 | The eyes were open and Ewan could see that , no matter how objective he tried to be , something lived in this body , something which he would soon extinguish with his own , vibrant , developed persona . |
| 28 | Her mother 's eyes were open and Helen bent over her and reassured her . |
| 29 | I had not yet decided whether her eyes were grey or hazel . |
| 30 | 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 . |