Example sentences of "were [adj] [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were red-rimmed and circled with deep , dark shadows . |
| 2 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 3 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 4 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 5 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 6 | During 1935 , as a result of intelligence information , they came to the conclusion that Mosley received most of his finance from Mussolini and that the national roots of the movement were weak and kept alive by artificial means . |
| 7 | By the mid-late nineteenth century these three East Asian kingdoms were weak and divided , and the East Asian cultural area no longer possessed the might of earlier years . |
| 8 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 9 | Devils could get into children because children were weak and did n't know what was happening to them . |
| 10 | All tumours were solid or had elements of er capillary and solid tumours and , routine sections were stained with a standard aminohistochemical technique , using anti C D thirty one anti-clotting . |
| 11 | It had been a long , tiring business and his hands were sore and chafed from the ropes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It must be a bit like being a lapsed Catholic , he thought ; you knew you were right but felt you were wrong . |
| 14 | He revealed ‘ so-called Euro-sceptics ’ were right and added : ‘ They grow stronger by the day . |
| 15 | Argentinian anti-aircraft fire had brought down at least one Harrier pilot before the gun barrels were depressed and turned against the Paras . |
| 16 | The reason for breaking our vows were pecuniary and made financial sense . |
| 17 | The images in its head were confusing and seemed to hasten the dying feeling inside . |
| 18 | She then checked that the skin preparations were complete and asked him to remove his dentures . |
| 19 | The windows were tall and mullioned , looking out onto the courtyard Harry had crossed earlier , with the top panels stained purple and gold to match the colours of the school . |
| 20 | As usual the Kaszubes were piggy-in-the-middle and found their sales restricted almost entirely to local markets and the bigger markets in Danzig , Oliva and Zoppot . |
| 21 | And , though those dreams had taken something of a battering since the heady days of Taunton , they were resilient and survived in amended form . |
| 22 | On the other hand , more than a few civilians were sloppy and needed to smarten up a bit . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The words were low and clipped , as though it hurt him to speak . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In three of the six subjects , sulphate reduction rates were low and did not show any change throughout the study . |
| 27 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 28 | Groundcrew were emotional and applied themselves with vigour to their checks , to keep their minds off the subject in hand — just as the aircrew had done in the cockpit on the flight from Cranfield to Waddington . |
| 29 | We were helpless but spurred our mothers into action with our cries for milk or affection , and through our lives we learn how to get what we want from our parents , partners or children . ) |
| 30 | London Transport said they were political and infringed its advertising code . |