Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expression in his eyes was tender and kind . |
| 2 | The announcements were prompted by a parliamentary report claiming that the entire police force was over-bureaucratic and bungling . |
| 3 | Armscott Manor was vast and rambling , admittedly . |
| 4 | Common good was paramount while individualism and self-interest were of lesser importance . |
| 5 | The once gleaming whitewash was dark and smoke-blackened ; in places the plaster had fallen away to reveal the messy rubble-walling beneath . |
| 6 | He never lost hope and his mind was clear and calm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lucy was shy as hell , and Jay was sure and easy . |
| 10 | Far off , Friend was amber and musk , velvet and rose . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly . |
| 14 | The haulage yard near Ramsey was large and run-down , and it was n't long before Ken 's wife , Betty , was making an oasis of beauty in the flat fieldscape . |
| 15 | His mouth was wide and slack . |
| 16 | Her mouth was dry and hollow , a socket , no longer a well , as if she had no tongue to kiss with . |
| 17 | His mouth was warm and firm , hungry , moving against hers with complete command so that when he lifted his head and looked down at her with glittering eyes she was breathless . |
| 18 | If the calf was to be kept alive the course of action was clear and time was critical . |
| 19 | The wind was strong and darkness coming nearer by the second . |
| 20 | On the surface Dana was hard and self-assured , out for everything she could get , but Claudia knew that exterior was n't completely genuine . |
| 21 | Winter was cold but autumn is come — the stubble fields , and so on . |
| 22 | Unlike the kings of Israel who had aspired to the title of ‘ Son of Yahweh , Jesus displayed utter trust in his heavenly Father though the outlook was black as night ; utter obedience to his Father , even though it would take him to a cross ; and utter readiness to suffer — in bloody sweat there and then , and the blood , sweat and hell of crucifixion thereafter . |
| 23 | To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final . |
| 24 | In this primeval chaos man 's unbridled egotism reigned supreme with no government to restrain it ; property was not respected and no orderly means existed for its transfer from one generation to the next ; marriage was unknown and mating was savagely haphazard and competitive . |
| 25 | The sun was low and night comes with near-tropical speed in Greece . |
| 26 | She had three reasons for haste : she was trying to track down Crystal Daly 's ex-lover , Georgie ; the diary desk was unmanned as Holly had gone to interview Donaldson and Rosie had a lunch date ; and Eliot wanted to talk to Rain . |
| 27 | His grip was firm and self-assured . |
| 28 | John Carter , on the other hand , concluded that ‘ as generally understood , the term private press would be applied only to a shop where the work was hand-set and hand-printed ’ . |
| 29 | The established deaf football clubs in England were based in Midlands and Northern cities and towns where work was hard and money was scarce . |
| 30 | Mr Dodd 's case failed but Miss Shearer was successful although tribunal chairman Lionel Brown said she had contributed 50% to her dismissal . |