Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a long , tiring business and his hands were sore and chafed from the ropes . |
| 2 | Argentinian anti-aircraft fire had brought down at least one Harrier pilot before the gun barrels were depressed and turned against the Paras . |
| 3 | His cheeks were sallow and sucked into the hollows between his teeth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Various branches of the former FDP were demilitarized and placed under the control of the Justice Ministry . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This confirmed that the relaxations were neurogenic and mediated by a NANC neurotransmitter . |
| 10 | They were delighted and impressed by the Medau demonstration , which inspired a visit to the Medau Summer School held at Cromer from which they returned full of praise for those bodies in blue tunics ! |
| 11 | We were early and stood in the playground . |
| 12 | We were bored and felt like a change . ’ |
| 13 | She felt then that S. Kettering 's almost military orders were appropriate and added to the feeling of security about the place . |
| 14 | Erm no what coming out of this is that how that although one would assume in the south that the peasants ought to be more revolutionary , in actual fact it 's the reverse and why is this happening , is it because of the fact that the Communist Party were in the n that maybe essentially that the peasants in China er were reactionary and worked within the confines of moral economy , but because of the presence of the Communist Party in the north they became more revolutionary and that 's sort of suggested by the success of land reform there and the fact that how , that they ca n't implement it in the south . |
| 15 | A survey by Germany 's Union for the Environment and Nature Protection recently found that two-thirds of the country 's trees were sick or dying from the effects of traffic and industrial fumes . |
| 16 | Deep tan , good body , jeans that were tight and bleached over the thighs but not looking like they were sprayed on . |
| 17 | In Catalonia there was little criticism of a territorial aristocracy that took little or no interest in its lands : the large farmers were confident and secure in an aristocratic rural society where an early and major defeat of the economic power of the nobility had left the masovers a rural bourgeoisie . |
| 18 | Wilson claimed before the Royal Commission In 1892 that both unions were bogus and financed by the Shipping Federation , which they denied . |
| 19 | Whether these craftsmen were independent or worked under the aegis of the temple , which was close at hand , is hard to judge . |
| 20 | Some were shocked and disturbed by the dawn raid . |
| 21 | Consequently , federalists were shocked and disheartened by the 1945 British general election , which removed Churchill and his Conservatives from power . |
| 22 | They were indolent and addicted to a life of pleasure : ‘ They get up at any hour they choose , and go out and amuse themselves . ’ |
| 23 | For , if ( x 1 , … , x n ) were optimal and dominated by the feasible ( in VMP ) solution ( x 1 , … , x n ) , then so that ( x 1 , … , x n ) is also feasible in LP* ( x 1 , … , x n ) . |
| 24 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 25 | Tottenham were furious and protested to the League , only to be told that under wartime regulations it was perfectly in order . |
| 26 | A confidential World Bank report , released in early June , stated that clove and orange dealing monopolies run by Suharto 's two sons should be closed down because they were inefficient and went against the government 's deregulation programme . |
| 27 | Right-wing readers of a right-wing paper were more likely than left-wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right-wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias . |
| 28 | Most of us were red and peeling from the sun : he had been burned golden . |
| 29 | The women were uninjured but shocked by the incident . |
| 30 | We showed that the virus particles that display antibody fragments could also encapsidate the genes of a marker ( neo ) , and were infectious as shown by the transfer of G418 antibiotic resistance to murine cells from viral particles immobilised on NIP-BSA coated plates . |