Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [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 | If this means attributing to Athens an uncharacteristic desire for land empire , we should not hesitate to do so — Thucydides ( i. 111 ) after all records an expedition to Thessaly as well ; and if any individual was responsible it was surely Pericles , whom Aristotle ( Rhetoric 1407 ) quotes as saying that the Boiotians tended to ‘ cut each other down ’ — that is , they were weak because internally divided . |
| 4 | I wanted things that were solid and well made , and of course safe ; that was more important to me than appearance . |
| 5 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 6 | They were sharp-faced and casually clad . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | When she looked up again , they were clear and slightly pleading . |
| 13 | In most cases these wives were literate and well informed , but they would smile politely and agree with their husbands . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Although lack of staff was mentioned often , lack of direct funding was mentioned much less so : in fact more libraries actually said that resources were adequate than specifically noted otherwise : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 18 | We were very fortunate that our faithful ‘ visiting ’ advisers were willing as always to take care of art , music , social sciences , and playing cards ; and , above all , that Scott Anderson and Laurie Bruce would undertake the entire sorting and evaluating of stamps and records respectively . |
| 19 | Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn . |
| 20 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Clasped on her lap , her fingers were rose-tipped and heavily ringed . |
| 25 | The ‘ direct ’ reversing Bolinder engines remained popular , however , because they were simple and easier to maintain and had a long life . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 28 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways . |
| 30 | Both were well-attended and efficiently staged . |