Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | All these solutions were current and much discussed . |
| 5 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 6 | Speyside was an area where the units were large and almost exclusively family farms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His stands alienated the richer members so that his ministries were short and ill paid . |
| 9 | In the 1960's computers were rare and very expensive and the only text acquisition method for corpus compilers was manual input . |
| 10 | In 1989 bonuses were smaller but still significant : 2.3 percentage points for Fianna Fail , 3.8 for Fine Gael , 6.1 altogether . |
| 11 | Its beauty awed her so that her thanks were quiet and almost reverent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Until recently , diesel cars were slow and very noisy , the theory being that this was the price you had to pay for economy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Outwardly , she had recovered her composure but her eyes were watchful as well as sad . |
| 18 | Her eyes were puffy and still full of tears . |
| 19 | They were nice lips , beautifully curved , and his eyes were brown and very round . |
| 20 | The eyes were protuberant and surprisingly wide , a washed blue or grey in colour . |
| 21 | Those large eyes were disconcerting and somehow overheated . |
| 22 | His eyes were deep-set and almost feverish , shining out from under craggy brows . |
| 23 | His eyes were narrower than ever , almost slits . |
| 24 | Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn . |
| 25 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 26 | These test confirmed that the initial technical designs were feasible and indeed acceptable . |
| 27 | His seeking lips were cool and infinitely skilful , moving over hers . |
| 28 | Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets . |
| 29 | The first aircraft came into Wolverton Works on 2 April 1941 , when shop adaptations were incomplete and only eight men trained to commence work , and whilst the layout had to be completed and the staff were being gradually built up and trained , the first aircraft was completed by 31 July 1941 . |
| 30 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |