Example sentences of "were [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls . |
| 2 | Of the three haematopoietic cell lines , the granulocyte and megakaryocyte series were normal and the erythrocyte line was hyperplastic . |
| 3 | Much later , when the children were asleep and the house was quiet once more , Beth lay in bed beside her husband . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He decided it should be ten metres high with four-metre thick reinforced concrete walls but the workmen were sloppy and the concrete cracked . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 12 | It was not unsuccessful , but development costs were high and the market was not there . |
| 13 | The fees were high and the atmosphere rarefied . |
| 14 | Like every other funeral I have attended , laughs were few and the weather was bloody awful . |
| 15 | Now Maggie learned that falling and flying were different and the difference was fear . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution ; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar . |
| 19 | All three were English and the judge , Harry Bennett , gave his name to the committee as he was chairman . |
| 20 | The beds were damp and the floor cold when you put your bare feet out in the morning . |
| 21 | On the day of the explosion winds were calm and the gas was slow to dissipate . |
| 22 | The participants were willing and the setting was ideal ; they 'd been close to it often enough , so what was happening now ? |
| 23 | ‘ The lads were tremendous and the club was run for the players . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the Department said later that the documents were not illegally leaked but were inadvertently sent to the Press Association because the two fax numbers were similar and the operator had mistakenly hit a wrong key . |
| 25 | The grey eyes were serious and the mouth and chin set in a stern line . |
| 26 | Where statistics on socio-economic factors were accessible and the effect of these could be controlled , age was shown to be somewhat less powerful as a determinant of health among adolescents during pregnancy and confinement . |
| 27 | A hundred years later there were 90,000 and the town had a bad reputation for strikes . |
| 28 | When the news was fully appreciated the delegates according to The BDN , " were uncontrollable and a sea of hands raced through the air in deaf applause . " |
| 29 | Controls were simple and the heat output is considerable for the price . |
| 30 | This was a relatively straightforward exercise , because the chemical structures which served as the starting point were simple and the enzyme , which was easy to prepare , provided a much simpler test system than experiments involving whole animals . |