Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses on either side were shuttered and closed . |
| 2 | The Cruithin were interesting and learned . |
| 3 | Romer J. held that the charges for re-cutting , repainting and regilding were illegal but refused to allow recovery of past payments for these . |
| 4 | By contrast , his attempts to cover-up his crime were cool and calculated . |
| 5 | The undertaker 's trade card was explicit and left no one in doubt as to the range of items available from any one merchant . |
| 6 | When asked about this revolt the Prime Minister replied that he ‘ thought speed was important and hoped she would send for Lord Home immediately-as soon as she got back to the Palace ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Justice Roch said that because the defendant was deaf and had a speech disability a social worker , Jill Hughes , would sit in the dock and translate . |
| 8 | The brave soldier was alone but stood his ground after confronting the men in the dead of night . |
| 9 | The soldier was calm and spoke deliberately . |
| 10 | The agent was up-to-date and wished , as was fashionable in those years , to give an amusing turn to the advertisement , which he thought ought to appear , not where Willis had thought of putting it , in the Exchange and Mart , but in the A circulation newspapers . |
| 11 | The grate was empty and swept . |
| 12 | The average parish priest was poor and remained so throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : he earned less than a well-paid labourer and was often dependent , in rural parishes , on the sale of eggs and on other minor agricultural pursuits . |
| 13 | The priest was young and flustered ; a number of churches in the district were open for services . |
| 14 | In the case of ‘ minor events ’ which were arranged to cope with less complex proposals the programme was similar but scaled down to take only half a day . |
| 15 | The educational system had failed him — an education system that had relied largely upon on-the-job training and part-time or distance study was inadequate and had ineptly squandered the intellect of its candidates . |
| 16 | The present study was prospective and allowed only race to vary — and so adds important information . |
| 17 | A third party should be entitled to assume that a person in an authoritative position within an organisation is competent to bind the organisation , and the organisation should not be able to plead violation of an internal rule unless ‘ that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of fundamental importance . ’ |
| 18 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 19 | The complex was huge and had a lovely interior , with shrubs and colourful plants everywhere . |
| 20 | The Superintendent was delighted and said their programme had been the best so far . |
| 21 | Dexter had said nothing since leaving Malbis Castle , sensing that the superintendent was tired and wanted time to think . |
| 22 | The confrontation was predictable and planned , therefore relatively easily controlled . |
| 23 | They concluded that the level of violence was high and reported that , in a period of only one year , 59 per cent of women had experiences of violence . |
| 24 | The disguise was good and added ten years to him . |
| 25 | After some questioning of the driver , the constable concluded that his objection to providing a specimen of blood was invalid and treated him as having failed to provide a specimen under section 7(4) . |
| 26 | The lay-out was traditional and mirrored that of the old medieval cathedral , but both exterior and interior were lavishly decorated with classical arches and columns , and the whole building was dominated by a vast classical dome , which rose almost to the height of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral , one of the tallest Gothic buildings in Europe . |
| 27 | John Foster Dulles , a leading Republican spokesman on foreign affairs , was a member of the American delegation to the UN , and the State Department intended that Dulles should speak in conciliatory vein in the hope that the Soviet Union would accept the establishment of a temporary commission ; the Truman administration was embarrassed but wished to advance non-communist prospects in Korea as far as was possible . |
| 28 | The wind was violent and felt substantial enough to lean against . |
| 29 | In spite of Hazel 's efforts beside the snare , there was not one of them who had not turned sick at heart to think that Bigwig was dead and wondered , like Blackberry , what would become of them now . |
| 30 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |