Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority were technical rather than practical courses . |
| 2 | Men seemed happier to think their sexual inadequacies were emotional rather than physical ; they 'd rather believe women want affection and tenderness than think about women 's nitty gritty physical needs . |
| 3 | The principal preoccupations of the summit were political rather than economic , focusing on Liberia and the continuing role there of the ECOWAS-sponsored peace-keeping force , ECOMOG [ see p. 38278 ] . |
| 4 | They were interesting rather than entertaining and yet , to this day , remain Morrissey 's favourite band . |
| 5 | She had played an important part in the long series of struggles between France and the Habsburgs which dominated the age of Charles V. By the early seventeenth century France , England , Venice and the United Provinces were all maintaining permanent representatives in Constantinople ( though the English and Dutch ones were commercial rather than diplomatic agents ) . |
| 6 | Although James Stewart had fought at Culloden on 16 April 1746 , as a captain in the Appin Regiment , his talents were entrepreneurial rather than military . |
| 7 | In the speech Gorbachev expressed his personal support for the United Nations , which had ‘ increasingly manifested its ability to act as a unique international centre in the service of peace and security ’ , and repeated his belief that the most important issues that faced the world community were global rather than regional in character . |
| 8 | Owen could take over the transcendentalists ' search for underlying patterns , but , since the relationships were ideal rather than physical , he could follow Cuvier 's refutation of transmutation by emphasizing the gaps between the different forms of vertebrate life . |
| 9 | And a few companies found their senior women were suspicious rather than supportive . |
| 10 | There is some validity in most of these criticisms , but they should not obscure the fact that the fundamental problems with the RPF were conceptual rather than tactical or organizational . |
| 11 | Soviet reports on the French idea were factual rather than critical . |
| 12 | Unlike other giant saurians , he said , dinosaurs were terrestrial rather than aquatic creatures . |
| 13 | Veronica was in her mid-thirties , she guessed , and her clothes were good rather than fashionable . |
| 14 | Critical examination by the most reliable of tests and measurements , usually showed that they had little if any action greater than that of placebos , or that their effects on performance were deleterious rather than beneficial . |
| 15 | Weakened Wakefield had tried in vain to postpone Saturday 's game and they duly lost their 33 match unbeaten home record to a Newcastle side who were clinical rather than spectacular in registering an 18–8 victory . |
| 16 | Weakened Wakefield had tried in vain to postpone Saturday 's game and they duly lost their 33 match unbeaten home record to a Newcastle side who were clinical rather than spectacular in registering an 18–8 victory . |
| 17 | In fact just as he relied upon intuition and perception rather than sustained argument in his prose discourse , so his public attitudes were imaginative rather than practical . |
| 18 | Adrian Stayte 's eyelids were stuck together when two men pounced on him as he was delivering milk in Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 19 | The campaign was far from glorious , audiences were sullen rather than enthusiastic , but the result sensational . |
| 20 | You could n't edit the preview display , of course , and the typefaces were generic rather than accurate representations but things were , it seemed , moving in the right direction . |
| 21 | This survival reflects the extent to which the daily papers ' contents and appeal tied in with these various alternatives : they were complementary more than competitive . |
| 22 | However , these studies also recognized that the strong links and relationships they described ( e.g. increasing rates of participation with car ownership ) were permissive rather than causal . |
| 23 | The causal connections between early life chances and present opportunities were implicit rather than explicit almost as if people did not want to articulate these except in the ways that I report . |
| 24 | The reasons for this were practical rather than doctrinal . |
| 25 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 26 | At about the same period Youatt remarked that most of Somerset 's cattle were good red Devons but that a few in northern Somerset were particoloured Devons and some in the west of the county were yellowish rather than deep red or were sheeted ( that is to say , with broad white belts ) . |
| 27 | Other groups , especially more recently , were enthusiastic rather than reluctant . |
| 28 | At first , studies of the revolution written in this spirit were impressionistic rather than scholarly and the voice of criticism from the Left was barely audible . |
| 29 | The thing that perturbed him slightly , though , was that most of the men she talked to were young rather than old . |
| 30 | By contrast , Aung San and Thakin Nu were unknown less than ten years before they compelled the British to concede their demands . |