Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh just until they were dry maybe if it was a grand time of wind , maybe say three days . |
| 2 | He made sure his hands were dry too but while he wiped them he managed to drop the hat . |
| 3 | The majority were technical rather than practical courses . |
| 4 | The suffragettes were weak physically and numerically , without franchise , and had resorted to passive resistance as the only weapon at their disposal . |
| 5 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 6 | Their offspring had one each but were tall rather than intermediate in height because the tallness factor is ‘ dominant ’ to the shortness factor . |
| 7 | His eyes were murderous now and rage coloured his pale complexion . |
| 8 | And so there are still to be found Latinists who think that the hilarious mistranslations in his Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) were inadvertent rather than mischievously deliberate . |
| 9 | Men seemed happier to think their sexual inadequacies were emotional rather than physical ; they 'd rather believe women want affection and tenderness than think about women 's nitty gritty physical needs . |
| 10 | The proportion reporting that they thought people were healthier now than in their parents ' time decreased with age , from 78 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 years to 67 per cent of those aged 85 years and over ( Victor 1990a ) . |
| 11 | The principal preoccupations of the summit were political rather than economic , focusing on Liberia and the continuing role there of the ECOWAS-sponsored peace-keeping force , ECOMOG [ see p. 38278 ] . |
| 12 | Faced by such diverse interpretations of the new adversary , the Reagan Presidency in 1985 , rather than return to Kissinger 's ideal of ‘ linkage ’ in a period of détente , decided to pursue a policy of ‘ constructive confrontation ’ with Moscow , accepting that certain agreements with Russia were possible even if she remained a rival on the world stage . |
| 13 | Many of them were possible only if the NILP got control of Stormont and were propaganda points in its ideological war against the doctrines of Orange and Green . |
| 14 | The Lords held that the boys were guilty even though they did not realise that what they were doing might harm others . |
| 15 | He had some band that were awful apparently and the |
| 16 | The chances were slim indeed but now she really wanted to go . |
| 17 | They were genial enough and we exchanged pleasantries until the leading galleon said , ‘ Do you believe in destiny ? ’ |
| 18 | Mm they were different now but I always used to like it . |
| 19 | The council knew we were overcrowded even before Shelley came . |
| 20 | A thin rim of encrusted mud , drying off now , helped to outline the marks , but even so they were elusive enough until pointed out . |
| 21 | It was , he continued , more important than ever to ensure that leases were well-drafted so as to make landlords and/or tenants fully aware as to whether or not their insurance policies covered damage caused by terrorism . |
| 22 | When used in a properly fitting , thin joint they were reliable enough but , when the joint fitted badly so that the glue-line was thick , the shrinkages and internal stresses set up when the glue hardened often caused the glue to craze and to fall to bits in the joint . |
| 23 | They were interesting rather than entertaining and yet , to this day , remain Morrissey 's favourite band . |
| 24 | By 1971 the facts of central area deprivation were clear enough and a set of disjointed and somewhat tentative initiatives in the older , inner parts of our big cities unfolded ( Home , 1982 ) . |
| 25 | She had played an important part in the long series of struggles between France and the Habsburgs which dominated the age of Charles V. By the early seventeenth century France , England , Venice and the United Provinces were all maintaining permanent representatives in Constantinople ( though the English and Dutch ones were commercial rather than diplomatic agents ) . |
| 26 | Of those who resist cable she says ‘ just remember that the same arguments were put forward against ITV over 25 years ago ; they were wrong then and they will be wrong again . ’ |
| 27 | The one that , when y if you look at those , look at , do n't just concentrate on the ones which are right , concentrate on the ones that were wrong too and say , why are they wrong ? |
| 28 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 29 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 30 | There were crags up there he 'd heard , real crags , but they were empty now and host only to thriving colonies of brilliant green algae . |