Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 2 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 3 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 4 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 5 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
| 6 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 7 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 8 | Her movements as she set the inverted cups upright on their saucers and manipulated milk jug , teapot and hot water jug were precise and just a little fussy . |
| 9 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 10 | ‘ There was n't a ha'porth of prejudice in him — except that the Welsh were marvellous and especially the Welsh-speaking Welsh and most particularly those from Pontrhydyfen and most of all the Jenkins family . |
| 11 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 12 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 13 | Young Roberto 's mother died when he was eight and thereafter the boy rarely left the family villa of Baronta near Florence . |
| 14 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 15 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 16 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 17 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 18 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 19 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 20 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
| 21 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
| 22 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |
| 23 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 24 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 25 | Something like £1,500 shared among the family , not to mention generous bequests , including £200 towards the completion of Lavenham steeple and cash distributed among the parishes where Spring owned property , virtually accounts for what was far and away the greatest personal estate owned by any commoner , or for that matter almost any peer : only the duke of Norfolk 's £4,000 topped it . |
| 26 | The press was far and away the most important section of the audience . |
| 27 | On some railroads , however , it was far and away the most important single item of freight . |
| 28 | I invite him to read the Prime Minister 's response to the right hon. Member for Chesterfield , which was far and away the most interesting part of the debate — Amended text or not , it reveals the muddle to which the other 11 nations of Europe do not subscribe . |
| 29 | The CGT was far and away the most powerful union federation . |
| 30 | The crash of 1974 was far and away the biggest since 1929 . |