Example sentences of "[verb] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feature editor had a bad stutter , and Hannen Swaffer was deaf , so to watch them trying to communicate was hilarious . |
| 2 | Fei Yen was silent . |
| 3 | Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied . |
| 4 | The management that the local authority proposed was straightforward . |
| 5 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 6 | Some time before the inception of the project , the area in which the school is located was subject to a reorganisation in which the sixth form was lost to a newly created tertiary college . |
| 7 | The lift they entered was crowded , forcing them to stand close together , the brush of Luke 's jacket sleeve against her bare arm adding to the difficulty of trying to sort out what she was going to say to him before she agreed to get into the car with him . |
| 8 | Here , everyone who entered was free to be Dreamer . |
| 9 | She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it . |
| 10 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 11 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 12 | Life makes the worst video you 've ever seen look like a masterpiece , and the episode I 'm about to relate was well down to par in this respect . |
| 13 | He also on July 24 made remarks criticizing members of the UN Security Council for giving what he maintained was undue priority to the situation in Yugoslavia , which he described as a " war of the rich " . |
| 14 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 15 | More trouble was to follow Hunt at the British Grand Prix at Brads when has was involved in a shunt at the first bend after Lauda and Clay Regazzoni ( Swi ) collided . |
| 16 | One of the key techniques that Boyds wanted to encourage was deep cut or , as it 's known in the U S , extended cut . |
| 17 | Anke did not play at her best in the Federation Cup in Nottingham last year but the way she moved was unbelievable . |
| 18 | One of the most comprehensive studies of the results of randomization trials that has been reported was due to Kaimann . |
| 19 | They bought heroin which they reported was top quality and thought to come from Holland . |
| 20 | The court held that there was no evidence to suggest that the decision to exclude was unreasonable on Wednesbury grounds . |
| 21 | Councillor Ardor Deems was Galactic Minister of the Arts . |
| 22 | Deems was silent , hanging his head and then asking in a subdued voice , ‘ What will you do with me ? |
| 23 | Deems was pale . |
| 24 | Scalfaro had succeeded was Interior Minister in 1983-87 , and was known as a committed Catholic and anti-communist . |
| 25 | Lee said earlier this week that a consortium he heads was ready to invest millions in City in return for a seat on the board . |
| 26 | The pageant they built was crude — a ladder and a low plinth for God to sit on , a single trapdoor straight out on to the grass , a curtain across to conceal anyone who used it . |
| 27 | The future she 'd visualized was silly , puppies and a row of kennels and being alone . |
| 28 | The case may be different from Chapman v. Honig in that the contempt involved was civil not criminal but it is not easy to see why this should point towards tortious liability . |
| 29 | Sometimes it helps to add retarding gel to acrylic paint for this type of manipulation , but on this occasion the area involved was small , and I could work on it easily whilst the colours remained wet . |
| 30 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |