Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1935 , as a result of intelligence information , they came to the conclusion that Mosley received most of his finance from Mussolini and that the national roots of the movement were weak and kept alive by artificial means . |
| 2 | The reason for breaking our vows were pecuniary and made financial sense . |
| 3 | Best of all would be to get a job in Wellingham if it were possible and live all the time at Moorlake . |
| 4 | Partisan influences were strong and became stronger as the election approached . |
| 5 | Changes in intraluminal gall bladder pressure were dose-dependent and occurred 10 to 20 seconds after CCK-8 was given . |
| 6 | Of these two , sentence ( i ) was favoured : The justifications offered by the groups who chose ( i ) as the crucial opening sentence were interesting and merit some consideration . |
| 7 | Some large examples in important towns such as Rome , Constantinople , Milan , Trier and in the Holy Land were complex designs ( pages 94 , 96 and 173 and XVII ) which might possess more than one hall , or were multi-aisled and had several apses . |
| 8 | They were dark-skinned and wore tight trousers . |
| 9 | They may not have been original , but they were honest and wrote fine four-minute pop songs with hooks and an enchanting whimsy that caught the imagination . |
| 10 | Europe and Japan were dismayed and angered last month by comments from the US government that ignored their significant roles in the programme ( Japan is contributing a similar module ) . |
| 11 | Among those who were horrified and given great difficulty by the music were the players of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra . |
| 12 | One or two of the girls were impressed and imagined some dark , passionate , beautiful , Sophia-Loren type lurking in the background . |
| 13 | The Board members were impressed and requested similar presentations for the entire staff . |
| 14 | Safe as the Mark 3 coaches have been , however , their designers have been responsible for actually causing one or two accidents because straps and fixings holding underfloor equipment were inadequate and worked loose , allowing major items to fall off . |
| 15 | Neurones in the myenteric plexus were not identified in the colon and were sparse and appeared degenerate in the appendix and ileum . |
| 16 | Fifth , the children were happy and making good progress in care . |
| 17 | One reason for this was that all officers of the Associations were honorary and had other jobs which kept them busy . |
| 18 | He disputed figures in The Northern Echo poll which said 15pc were undecided and gave Labour an 11pc lead . |
| 19 | The project seeks to examine , through academic research and archival description , the origins and growth of ideas about colonial development and welfare , to describe the growth of those parts of the UK government machine which were concerned and to pinpoint relevant official records . |
| 20 | Now when they were busy and had important people in our dining room at Ipswich , there was one , there were two waiters . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of these prisoners were arrogant and felt proud to die for their cause ; others were less so and resigned to their fate . |
| 22 | But many of her ships , though more numerous than Germany 's , were obsolescent and lacked new , virtually impenetrable armoured plating . |
| 23 | The cells were generally bare with stone ‘ beds ’ , but were clean and had integral toilets and water taps . |
| 24 | The British Medical Association estimated that 20 per cent of abortions were criminal and using that figure David Glass calculated that a total of 68,000 criminal abortions took place in 1935 . |
| 25 | His adaptations of late Gothic and northern Renaissance styles were influential and had many admirers . |
| 26 | Originally they were gilded and had blue backgrounds . |
| 27 | The green lawns were bright and cut close , the thickets of daffodils had not quite died down along the edges of the drive . |
| 28 | Or , as Nehemiah vividly expressed it , ‘ They ate and were satisfied and grew fat and found delight in thy great goodness . |
| 29 | Initially , the minorities who were skilled and had competence in English , as well as those who were unskilled and had little or no competence in English , were offered unskilled jobs in textile firms , foundries , hospitals and in public transport . |
| 30 | Most British people believed that , whatever their own prosperity , the fortunes of their country were bad and getting worse . |