Example sentences of "were [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were red-rimmed and circled with deep , dark shadows . |
| 2 | His eyes were red-rimmed and sagging , his nose a mass of pustules , and his teeth had been blacked out with enamel . |
| 3 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 4 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 5 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 6 | The provisions for capital gains tax relief for entrepreneurs were also amended to extend the relief to gains arising from the sale of quoted shares where the qualifying entrepreneur held them when they were unquoted and allow him or her to claim relief when they receive shares in another company in exchange for unquoted shares in their own . |
| 7 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the mid-late nineteenth century these three East Asian kingdoms were weak and divided , and the East Asian cultural area no longer possessed the might of earlier years . |
| 10 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 11 | Devils could get into children because children were weak and did n't know what was happening to them . |
| 12 | All tumours were solid or had elements of er capillary and solid tumours and , routine sections were stained with a standard aminohistochemical technique , using anti C D thirty one anti-clotting . |
| 13 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 14 | It had been a long , tiring business and his hands were sore and chafed from the ropes . |
| 15 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 16 | Twenty years ago they were Labour but switched in 1979 for one reasons , the right to buy which gave those genuinely attempting to better themselves the chance to do so . |
| 17 | It must be a bit like being a lapsed Catholic , he thought ; you knew you were right but felt you were wrong . |
| 18 | He revealed ‘ so-called Euro-sceptics ’ were right and added : ‘ They grow stronger by the day . |
| 19 | Argentinian anti-aircraft fire had brought down at least one Harrier pilot before the gun barrels were depressed and turned against the Paras . |
| 20 | His arms were muscular and adorned with Chinese tattoos . |
| 21 | The reason for breaking our vows were pecuniary and made financial sense . |
| 22 | The images in its head were confusing and seemed to hasten the dying feeling inside . |
| 23 | Amid the unspeakable sufferings , however , there are epic tales of courage and heroism ; of those who voluntarily followed their banished loved ones into the unknown ; of enlightened , cultivated exiles who chose to remain after their sentences were complete and devote themselves to the scientific , artistic and educational development of the region . |
| 24 | She then checked that the skin preparations were complete and asked him to remove his dentures . |
| 25 | The windows were tall and mullioned , looking out onto the courtyard Harry had crossed earlier , with the top panels stained purple and gold to match the colours of the school . |
| 26 | As usual the Kaszubes were piggy-in-the-middle and found their sales restricted almost entirely to local markets and the bigger markets in Danzig , Oliva and Zoppot . |
| 27 | And , though those dreams had taken something of a battering since the heady days of Taunton , they were resilient and survived in amended form . |
| 28 | On the other hand , more than a few civilians were sloppy and needed to smarten up a bit . |
| 29 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 30 | Both Kolisko 's and Boyd 's experiments were painstaking and proved to be impossible for other workers to replicate because of the complicated experimental apparatus involved . |