Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical demands were enormous and it says much for the exceptional fitness of both crews that neither wilted . |
| 2 | Its walls were of pinkwashed cob , its roof was thatched and it stood on its own . |
| 3 | Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ . |
| 4 | The third light was green and it skidded to a halt . |
| 5 | Its mouth was open and it seemed to be grinning at him . |
| 6 | Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves . |
| 7 | The condition was offputting and it sold below estimate for $48,000 ( £30,000 ; est. $60,000–80,000 ) . |
| 8 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 9 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 10 | The fit of this brace was firm and it felt comfortable , despite the fact that it is an off-the-shelf model ( its older brother , the CTI , is custom-fit ) and I found I was able to ski with some confidence in my otherwise highly unstable knee . |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy claimed the move would deliver to Solaris the three volume chips likely to survive : PowerPC , Sparc and Intel as SunSoft resources are moved off the new Intel Corp version , he said , they would be dedicated on the PowerPC — McNealy said this would be ready in late 1993 and SunSoft president Ed Zander immediately stepped up to contradict him , saying the date would more likely be early next year ; few details were available and it remains to be seen who would use it and how it will be sold . |
| 12 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 13 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 14 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 15 | A reassessment of his career was due and it comes as a new monograph by Tim Hilton ( £30 , Lund Humphries ) and an exhibition which opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at the end of last month ( to 31 August ) and will be shown at The Art Warehouse in London in the autumn . |
| 16 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 17 | Her curtains were open and it went across her window in the sky . |
| 18 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 19 | His voice was deep and it sent her pulses racing . |
| 20 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 21 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 22 | The whole audience was astounded and it did n't go down very well . |
| 23 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 24 | Another reason for the lack of interest in PEPS is that its benefits were predictable and it tied up clients ' money for at least a year . |
| 25 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 26 | Certainly my childhood was thrifty and it seemed dreary . |
| 27 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 28 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 29 | Eileen was dead and it meant nothing to them at all . |
| 30 | Eileen was dead and it made no difference at all . |