Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But they have n't got time to look for something that was probably a mouse , ’ said Masklin . |
| 32 | He had just provided some polish for a machine that was already a miracle of design . |
| 33 | This idea of a walk that was twice the length of the Pennine Way — or so Dick said — sounded horrid . |
| 34 | Last week they played a new noise that was obviously the sound of a ball dropping into a roulette wheel . |
| 35 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 36 | With a bobbing movement that was almost a curtsey , Madame Delon hurried away . |
| 37 | ‘ I did n't know it was a matter of taking sides , Joe , ’ Ashdown said with a gentleness that was almost a reprimand . |
| 38 | He unclipped a plastic water-bottle from his belt and held it out with a smile that was almost a grin . |
| 39 | Only stood staring , unaware of the mix of emotions in his face : double fire in his eyes — anger and desire both ; the sneer on his lips that was almost a smile ; and the still-present evidence of his recent excesses — a pallid complexion and the darker skin beneath his eyes , the deeper carved lines down to his mouth . |
| 40 | ‘ And yet , ’ he said after a moment , in a voice that was almost a whisper , ‘ and yet , last night , when you thought I was interested in you … ’ |
| 41 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 42 | Luke gave a shuddering sigh that was almost a sob and a tear rolled down his cheek . |
| 43 | With a sigh that was almost a gurgle of gratification , she found the slippery spread . |
| 44 | I write at the top of the house , in an attic that was once a housemaid 's bedroom . |
| 45 | Gosstandard , a body that was once a bane of exporters to the Soviet Union has again raised its ugly head . |
| 46 | PWI — with COSE at its side — will attempt to claim the high moral ground over the issue of open specifications and is likely to cast Microsoft in a mantle that was once the preserve of IBM . |
| 47 | The Public Windows Initiative — with the Common Open Software Environment at its side — will attempt to claim the high moral ground over the issue of open specifications and is likely to cloak Microsoft in a mantle that was once the preserve of IBM . |
| 48 | A little lower , a white dart seared across the top of the sky , outrunning the night , overtaking the sun , crossing in a few hours an ocean that was once the edge of the world … . |
| 49 | of an old walled garden that was once the world . |
| 50 | Yet , thankfully , his leader 's rage was not directed at him , but at the conspiracy of Nadirpur and the French and British Governments to steal the arms shipment that was rightfully the property of Iran . |
| 51 | ‘ We figured that we could bring in artists from the '90s to interpret Hendrix using the computer technology that was only a dream in the '60s , ’ explains Storey . |
| 52 | Later that day , Mrs Knelle declared that she 'd take me for a drive , to see Ashford Castle , a local stately home that was now an hotel . |
| 53 | Mrs MacDonald was a Calgarian by birth , and her husband had been moved north by his firm to run the huge refinery that was now the pride of Tollemarche . |
| 54 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 55 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 56 | Needless to say , in a complex modern government that was usually a simplification , but one which served two powerful purposes : to sustain popular confidence in his leadership and to give the state itself a clear sense of direction . |
| 57 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 58 | last season Gloucester had two games against Rugby in seven days … they knocked them out of the cup by 23 points to 3 and also beat them in the league that was quite a tussle … the cherry and whites won by nineteen points to sixteen and once again got the try of the game … |
| 59 | Cecilia sat in her comfortable drawing room on the sofa-bed that was always a sofa and never a bed — ‘ But you 've got five bedrooms , Ma , ’ said Tina who had her eye on it — and turned on the television at twenty seconds to six . |
| 60 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |