Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrones they sat on were fluted and heavily decorated with clusters of mother-of-pearl along the back and arms . |
| 2 | The police , he said , were terrific and quickly found that some non-paying spectators were being smuggled in courtesy buses from the hotels and , in a few cases , hidden in car boots ! |
| 3 | I wanted things that were solid and well made , and of course safe ; that was more important to me than appearance . |
| 4 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 5 | They were sharp-faced and casually clad . |
| 6 | This was the usual practice when mail was given out : a recipient of a letter would normally get 150 , two letters 300 , and the penalties for a parcel were 500 and above depending on its contents . |
| 7 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 8 | Second , the pace of technological development meant that the advantages to companies from new products or improvements were short-lived and soon overtaken by others . |
| 9 | The hind limbs were strong and apparently adapted for scratch-digging , and Hyperodapedon could presumably dig up edible tubers and roots . |
| 10 | If I may say so very well councillor and you were specific and indeed backed up the particular figures , even though of course one is entitled to the that I thought it was fair and well argued . |
| 11 | Passage controls were few and well spaced out , so most crews reached Dover with a fairly uneventful run . |
| 12 | Portholes were few and usually hatched over with leering daemon masks . |
| 13 | As the duties were light and rapidly becoming merely nominal owing to the continued refusal of the war to start , Charles fetched Clarissa from her theatre nearly every night to take her dancing at one famous rendezvous or another . |
| 14 | When she looked up again , they were clear and slightly pleading . |
| 15 | In most cases these wives were literate and well informed , but they would smile politely and agree with their husbands . |
| 16 | In our survey of the financial arrangements of NEP as they applied to the Smolensk guberniia , it was noted how they were unstable and poorly defined from the outset , leading to economic and social tensions at the lower levels . |
| 17 | Therefore in the USA the methods of collective bargaining associated with the heyday of competitive capitalism were outmoded and eventually destroyed along with the breaking by employers of union control of the labour process . |
| 18 | Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn . |
| 19 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If our society were pure and well regulated , yes , they would be seducers ; but now , in my opinion , one may often consider them sisters of charity . ’ |
| 22 | Acheson 's ideas on Indo-China and South-East Asia , says Gaddis Smith , were vague and sometimes shifted depending on the person to whom he was talking . |
| 23 | Clasped on her lap , her fingers were rose-tipped and heavily ringed . |
| 24 | The ‘ direct ’ reversing Bolinder engines remained popular , however , because they were simple and easier to maintain and had a long life . |
| 25 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 26 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 27 | Both were well-attended and efficiently staged . |
| 28 | They were naive and easily misled by western ideas , especially since the ‘ open door ’ policy had allowed foreign ideas to enter China . |
| 29 | Fourth , the two researchers were white and so handicapped in their assessment of black families and children . |
| 30 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |