Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can say only that when I was at Bletchley the belief among my associates was that information had been received and that Ultra did not fail ; the intelligence it provided could not be fully acted upon for fear of betraying Ultra itself . |
| 2 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 3 | The grass all around my feet was alive with black toads . ’ |
| 4 | It soon became clear that nothing which came up to my expectations was open to me . |
| 5 | Justifying my needs was difficult , but with retirement looming up it seemed like a good idea . |
| 6 | His enquiry about my whereabouts was due to our having moved house . |
| 7 | ‘ One of my great-grandmothers was Jewish . |
| 8 | NCT has given me such a lot as I have moved twice when each of my children was 6 months , and as I attended really brilliant ante-natal classes before I had … and now that I am starting out on my ante-natal teacher training which will cost the branch £250 ( This is actually the cheapest training offered by any charity e.g. a Relate counsellor costs £600 to train ! ) , |
| 9 | I doubt whether it could have found its target but the very shape of it in my hands was reassuring . |
| 10 | The range of my jobs was limitless . |
| 11 | His tampering with my mirrors was sufficient to allow us to glimpse his mind . ’ |
| 12 | The range of its activities was immense : in addition to the building of schools , hospitals , bridges and highways , there were schemes to provide useful employment for writers and artists . |
| 13 | He added that few of America 's allies would have supported military action in Indo-China , and he believed that since the United States could not run the free world by itself a reappraisal of its policies was necessary to retain allied support . |
| 14 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |
| 15 | The last place to which she would have confided her secrets was this calendar diary . |
| 16 | That part of the image which had the most resonance both with elderly workers and their employers was that of ‘ retirement impact ’ — that is , of the physical and mental ill effects assumed to be associated with retirement . |
| 17 | Keeping the ‘ common people ’ of Romania down by always increasing the demands put upon them and diminishing their rewards was good policy as well as economically necessary if his ever-more ambitious plans were to be accomplished . |
| 18 | Equally loyal and effective was the Lady-in-Waiting , the Duchess de Bassano , whose husband was Grand Chamberlain of the Court , and whose devotion to their sovereigns was such that they followed them into exile , remaining faithful unto death . |
| 19 | Stacked on the floor around their legs was all the luggage that would n't fit on the roof rack . |
| 20 | The implication of her words was obvious , but it would have been wiser of her to have left them unspoken . |
| 21 | So , as the deputies gathered in Pale , the message Serb leaders tried to drum into their heads was simple : sign the plan for Serb victory . |
| 22 | No wonder that Queen Beatrix 's 1988 Christmas message to her subjects was notable for an unfestive concentration on doom . |
| 23 | So the redness of her lips was attributable to lip-salve . |
| 24 | Why should her pulse-beat grow light and fast and her mouth become so dry that the impulse to lick her lips was mandatory ? |
| 25 | One of her eyes was passable ; dark , and a rather pleasing almond shape . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , please make yourself at home , ’ Faye answered , but her politeness was mechanical , and Belinda suppressed a grunt of effort as she lifted the cases . |
| 27 | The skin above her heels was purple . |
| 28 | She did not like flying and the mental energy involved in getting through the ordeal without flinging herself down in the aisle and drumming her heels was considerable . |
| 29 | The absolute control they have over their voices was stunning , their harmonising superb . |
| 30 | No-one understood more clearly in November 1911 than Havelock Wilson that although the strike victory of that year represented a major gain to the union , the Shipping Federation 's abandonment of " the Ticket " was a reluctant one and that his battle against the managerial prerogatives claimed by the shipowners in manning their vessels and paying their crews was far from over . |