Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were red-rimmed and circled with deep , dark shadows . |
| 2 | It had been a long , tiring business and his hands were sore and chafed from the ropes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Argentinian anti-aircraft fire had brought down at least one Harrier pilot before the gun barrels were depressed and turned against the Paras . |
| 5 | His arms were muscular and adorned with Chinese tattoos . |
| 6 | And , though those dreams had taken something of a battering since the heady days of Taunton , they were resilient and survived in amended form . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is difficult to compare the perceptions of Labour and Conservative identifiers who read the same paper since the numbers in our sample who read any one paper were low and tended to be drawn predominantly from one party or another . |
| 9 | Clearly differentiated from each other , they were mass-produced and targeted at different sections of a guaranteed market , who knew what they were getting . |
| 10 | His cheeks were sallow and sucked into the hollows between his teeth . |
| 11 | All 1052 people with cystic fibrosis aged over 16 who were alive and known to the Association of Cystic Fibrosis Adults UK ( ACFA ) on 1 July 1990 were studied . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was easy to see that in reality the tables were old and stained with coffee rings , the seats cheap and plastic , the magazines tatty and two years out of date , and the strange , tropical foliage too glossily green and perfect not to be artificial . |
| 14 | There , many of the patients were old and suffering from dementia . |
| 15 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 16 | His eyes were brown and dulled by drugs , his temperature , and anxiety . |
| 17 | Funerals were free and open to all . |
| 18 | The vineyards on each side of their path were tangled and choked with weeds . |
| 19 | Various branches of the former FDP were demilitarized and placed under the control of the Justice Ministry . |
| 20 | Long skirts in the middle of the day were acceptable when walking through the halls of Al Ain or Abu Dhabi hotels , but a blue-eyed English woman in black veils and coat ? |
| 21 | Crowns , insignia , crosses , reliquaries and the bindings of liturgical books were dignified and enriched by enamelled iconography studded with pearls and cabochon gems . |
| 22 | However , these inroads by man and beast on board were light when compared with losses at sea , due to storm or war , when whole shipments might be lost . |
| 23 | The ladies , sisters , were English and looking for somewhere cheap but clean while they stayed on in Florence to attend art classes . |
| 24 | It was a dazzling Saturday afternoon , and the park was full of contented people : children stood knicker-deep in bliss , stroking the paddling-pool as if it were some great tame animal ; attendant mothers soaked in the sun ; lovers were prone and entranced on the grass . |
| 25 | The two sides of the business were interrelated and operated in parallel . |
| 26 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
| 27 | Vero cells were mock-infected or infected with 20 pfu/cell ASFV BA71V for 18 hr . |
| 28 | The lesions were linear or dotted in shape , and were often located on the upper part of the mucosal folds . |
| 29 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 30 | But they were defiant and rebelled against thee . ’ |