Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lakeland fells had been baked for weeks under cloudless skies ; the becks were dry and the tarns warm enough to give refreshing dips . |
| 2 | His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls . |
| 3 | Of the three haematopoietic cell lines , the granulocyte and megakaryocyte series were normal and the erythrocyte line was hyperplastic . |
| 4 | Much later , when the children were asleep and the house was quiet once more , Beth lay in bed beside her husband . |
| 5 | We then had tuition in the fitting and the actual sewing and by Sunday afternoon , nearly all the garments were complete and every person who attended was very thrilled with what they had learned and the work produced . |
| 6 | The dresses were open-necked and the women were continually drawing out long thin breasts to feed one of the multitude of infants crawling amongst the baggage . |
| 7 | The layout of the bodies was basically similar to the other railcoaches , but the saloon windows were full-drop and the platform doors were an air-operated sliding type . |
| 8 | He decided it should be ten metres high with four-metre thick reinforced concrete walls but the workmen were sloppy and the concrete cracked . |
| 9 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 10 | One wonders how the scene compared with that in Domagk 's laboratory several years earlier , when the mice treated with Prontosil were alive and the controls had all died ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 11 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 12 | Mainz was a see where Staufen interests were strong and a majority of the princes elected Lupold , bishop of Worms , a strong adherent of Philip , and a man of few scruples . |
| 13 | Within the large car plants themselves , where the unions were strong and the companies were able to offer a relatively stable employment policy by shifting the troughs and peaks in the work-load out to sub-contractors , management had adopted what Friedman termed the ‘ responsible autonomy ’ strategy . |
| 14 | West Indies had had their triumphs before , of course , but now things were different ; they were no longer inferior to whites , they were unified , they were strong and the future was theirs . |
| 15 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 16 | The risks were high and the casualties many . |
| 17 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |
| 18 | It was not unsuccessful , but development costs were high and the market was not there . |
| 19 | The fees were high and the atmosphere rarefied . |
| 20 | Like every other funeral I have attended , laughs were few and the weather was bloody awful . |
| 21 | Now Maggie learned that falling and flying were different and the difference was fear . |
| 22 | The entrance to the drive , for instance , was marked by stone piers surmounted by pineapples , but the piers were stunted and the pineapples crudely carved : had anyone really been fooled ? |
| 23 | Tikrit looked like any other Iraqi town , except that the streets were cleaner and the walkways over the road were equipped with escalators — though none were working . |
| 24 | He sometimes toyed with the idea of going to live in an EC country , where the streets were cleaner and the wages even higher , but he would n't be able to speak the language . |
| 25 | The Myrcans were inscrutable and the Hearthwares dubious , but when they finally set out again there were ten in the company , and Riven had a new companion riding at his side . |
| 26 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 27 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 28 | Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution ; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar . |
| 29 | All three were English and the judge , Harry Bennett , gave his name to the committee as he was chairman . |
| 30 | The beds were damp and the floor cold when you put your bare feet out in the morning . |