Example sentences of "was [adj] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the week the races started on time ( except for previously announced postponements ) , the rescue cover was ample and markers included two conspicuous 2m black spheres which seemed hardly to break the surface , so high did they ride . |
| 2 | Adenauer 's popularity in this early period was low and Erhard 's policies seemed slow to work . |
| 3 | The voice was low and hollow . |
| 4 | This 6.30 a.m. walk to breakfast was just about the worst part of the day , when my morale was low and thoughts of home rose painfully . |
| 5 | Morale was low and desertion high . |
| 6 | The sun was low and night comes with near-tropical speed in Greece . |
| 7 | By 1971 morale was low and discipline was fragile , there was pressure to get the troops out . |
| 8 | Labour was local , turnover was low and staff relations were good . |
| 9 | The wind was strong and darkness coming nearer by the second . |
| 10 | His profile was strong and patrician , his nose straight , the bronzed skin clear and healthy , the neat scroll-work of his ears set close to his well-shaped head . |
| 11 | Most of the undercity was clammy and chill , though not in the vicinity of the thermal spike . |
| 12 | Social work departments were facing even greater demands , unemployment was rising , the economy was weak and poverty and homelessness were on the increase . |
| 13 | Her voice was pleasant and voices were important to him . |
| 14 | His voice was pleasant and well-modulated , with only the faintest of Nottingham accents . |
| 15 | There 's an old lady living next door to what used to be the Armitage house ; she was there when Mrs Armitage was alive and Inez was her companion . ’ |
| 16 | The two speeches which I have just analysed are probably the two greatest ones in the play as they both change the storyline dramatically , but Marc Antony 's speech having the better effect on the plebeians which seems unfair , as he was dishonest and Brutus was n't , yet he won the ‘ word ’ battle and lead on from there to become greater and greater in power . |
| 17 | Berlin might become important in the future but its great age was in the 1920s , when East Germany was rich and clients came from Scandinavia and Russia . |
| 18 | Last night the hospitals said Jason was poorly and Neil was in a stable condition . |
| 19 | On 1 December 1991 , the purchase was complete and NCM Credit Insurance Limited ( NCM ) was born . |
| 20 | The soil was dry and firm underfoot . |
| 21 | Her mouth was dry and hollow , a socket , no longer a well , as if she had no tongue to kiss with . |
| 22 | His voice was dry and calm . |
| 23 | The floor of the North Sea was dry and peat was forming on it , as the Post-glacial rise in sea level had flooded neither the floor of the North Sea nor the Fens . |
| 24 | Culley 's throat was dry and itchy by the time Ira Sanchez arrived . |
| 25 | It was dry and limp . |
| 26 | It was dry and light to the touch . |
| 27 | Since France was pro-Egyptian and Britain 's fleets were otherwise engaged , the Sultan had to ask Russia for more than diplomatic assistance . |
| 28 | Money was scarce and unemployment was high . |
| 29 | Strabo quotes Timagenes only once ( 4.1.13 ) to say that Posidonius was right and Timagenes was wrong on the origins of the aurum tolosanurn , the gold from Tolosa which ruined the career of Caepio . |
| 30 | She still doubted whether Roirbak would betray her in this way , but perhaps Lennon was right and Quincx had been duped by Malamute . |