Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] were [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fur shone and his claws and teeth were in perfect condition . |
| 2 | One man said his feet and eyes were in constant motion . |
| 3 | The dusty cart-track had become a lawn ; the village houses had given way to straight , symmetrical lines of bottle-palms ; in the borders the lilies and irises were in full bloom — wonderful swathes of azure and magenta leading on into the char-bagh . |
| 4 | The most famous ( or notorious ) is the giant squid at 15 m or more in length , but some of the extinct ammonites and nautiloids were of similar dimension , and were the largest shelled animals ever to have lived . |
| 5 | Rackam 's swashbuckling manner was matched and supported by his theatrical dress : his shirt , jacket , and trousers were of striped calico , whence came the name ‘ Calico Jack ’ . |
| 6 | And if you had your regulars and things were in short supply , you would n't put those on the shelves , you 'd keep them back for when they came in . |
| 7 | But do n't be fooled … the cherry and whites were in black and white … and the visitors … well they 're in cherry and white . |
| 8 | By the application of good marine logic — tasting the water and finding it salty , then making sure the ebb — and flood-tides were of equal strength ( both tests which argued against this body of water being a river ) they realized that they had , indeed , discovered the way through . |
| 9 | ‘ Her legs and arms were like raw meat and her hands were black , like something from a bonfire . |
| 10 | I have already quoted one used by Caxton , and by the seventeenth century the booksellers and publishers were in full cry . |
| 11 | THOUSANDS of troops and police were on red alert in Ulster last night after the outlawing of the feared UDA terrorist group . |
| 12 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 13 | They stated that basic equipment and medicines were in short supply and that antibiotics and analgesics were particularly scarce . |
| 14 | Both evidence and conclusions were of dubious general application . |
| 15 | Historians can point to the philosophical views which underlay this ambition , and artists and sculptors were in various ways affected by the demonstration of its realisation in the theatre built for the composer at Bayreuth . |