Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were red-rimmed and circled with deep , dark shadows . |
| 2 | His arms were muscular and adorned with Chinese tattoos . |
| 3 | And , though those dreams had taken something of a battering since the heady days of Taunton , they were resilient and survived in amended form . |
| 4 | Clearly differentiated from each other , they were mass-produced and targeted at different sections of a guaranteed market , who knew what they were getting . |
| 5 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
| 6 | Crowns , insignia , crosses , reliquaries and the bindings of liturgical books were dignified and enriched by enamelled iconography studded with pearls and cabochon gems . |
| 7 | ‘ They were masked and armed with deadly weapons . |
| 8 | The monkeys were cautious when confronted with conspicuous markings . |
| 9 | mRNAs were reverse-transcribed and amplified in serial 10-fold dilutions of RNA using a GeneAmp RNA PCR kit ( Perkin Elmer Cetus ) and primers ( Synthecell ) at 1μM for both cDNA synthesis and amplification . |
| 10 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 11 | Dexter noticed her fingernails were long and primed with pink varnish . |
| 12 | Beneath an open beige silk trenchcoat she wore a red Louis Féraud dress ; her legs were long and sheathed in fine black nylon . |
| 13 | Initially , these Franco-German telecommunications satellites did not trouble US interests ; they were experimental or confined to educational or other non-commercial purposes . |
| 14 | DBV members were concerned that plans for industrial units on the old Darlington Forge Site were being held up . |
| 15 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 16 | This was reflected in an interesting phenomenon noticed by Mellanby : many school medical officers in safe urban reception areas were insistent that head lice had been virtually unknown in their area until the dirty , verminous and ill-mannered inner city evacuees arrived ; they were shocked when confronted with past hospital records for their town showing that this was not so . |
| 17 | All five children were musical and destined for academic success and professional careers . |
| 18 | It must be acknowledged , however , that the library appears to have been sometimes used to make sure that children whose teachers were absent or engaged in other pursuits were supervised . |
| 19 | How they glimpsed the Dark Lords who hold sway there , how they saw that the skies were dull and clotted with evil magic and black bewitchments . |
| 20 | All the Britons were disappointed and complained of poor grip on the track . |
| 21 | Human evolution was progressive and driven by intellectual ingenuity as societies invented their own adaptive solution . |
| 22 | The track was broad and rutted with old cart-tracks . |
| 23 | Grief welled into the deep-set eyes and the reply , when it came , was unsteady and uttered through tightened lips . |
| 24 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |
| 25 | The voice on the other end of the telephone line was abrupt and filled with contained excitement . |
| 26 | He was slim and fit with well-brushed thinning hair . |
| 27 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 28 | By design or nature , it was on the hill above Main Street and was large and ringed with thirty-foot-high breadfruit trees shading the ground with their thick , dark green leaves . |
| 29 | They also sold rubber gas mask tubing which was corrugated and covered in heavy canvas . |
| 30 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |