Example sentences of "and [adj] were [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unusual , strange ; but unusual and strange were not words she was prepared to apply to anything short of a surreal Hell on Earth after her day . |
| 2 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 3 | In the West Midlands , for instance , over a third of the men whose occupations were noted in the Sedgley parish register during 1579 and 1580 were either nailmakers or some other type of metalworker . |
| 4 | She would as often as not weep during the song , and these were not glycerine tears , and they were not , except in the later years , produced to order . |
| 5 | The nerve strain had been bad , and these were not men with the mental resources to immerse themselves in books or thought . |
| 6 | At least 43 per cent of those who served as directors of the Bank of England between 1694 and 1715 were either Dissenters or from Dissenting backgrounds , whilst persons from the Dissenting interest also figured prominently as holders of Bank stock and as directors of the New East India Company . |
| 7 | Many of them had worked closely with President Mikhail Gorbachev and five were still CPSU members . |