Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the audience were respectable middle-class citizens who sported fascist badges . |
| 2 | She was on the point of abandoning the plan when a neighbour , a solicitor who had been advising the magazine , explained that Neville and company were respectable young men really , from decent backgrounds — after all , his father had been a colonel in the Australian Army . |
| 3 | The cardinals ' households were mini papal curias . |
| 4 | In some regions the lesser nobles , both titled and untitled , were interested in local concerns and in agricultural improvement : thus the Basque and Asturian lesser nobility were admirable local patriots , good landlords , influential in their districts . |
| 5 | The two most important were iron-oxide coated plastic tape ( first produced in Germany in 1934 ) ( 22 ) and ultrasonic alternating-current bias ( patented by Carlson and Carpenter in the USA in 1921 ) . |
| 6 | The Guardian , The Observer and The Sunday Times are seeking a ruling that temporary injunctions handed down by a 3-2 House of Lords majority in 1987 , banning publication of details from the memoirs of an ex-MI5 officer , Peter Wright , were unnecessary prior restraints on free speech that breached Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 7 | Their paths were to cross quite frequently with commando raids , but Commando formations were uniformed military forces — as mentioned earlier — if not always treated as such by their enemies . |
| 8 | There were odd jagged seams all over the place , and the pale soft chamois leather had effectively polished dirt off every surface it came into contact with , so that it was now as grimy as the leathers Carolyn 's Dad used at the garage . |
| 9 | The Cincars were also prominent in commerce , as also were native-born Greek immigrants and Jews . |
| 10 | In Scotland , the closest equivalent to English and Welsh grammar schools were called senior secondary schools , while the equivalent of secondary moderns were junior secondary schools . |
| 11 | I paint so thinly , as though my work were unlit stained glass that requires a flood of light from beyond and behind to illuminate and enliven it , and there is no beyond and behind . |
| 12 | The face of the creature was pointed , animal-like , goat-like , and there were cruel curving talons protruding from its front paws and curling toes with gristly joints and sharp nails at the back . |
| 13 | You were scarce close confidantes . |
| 14 | On a more sedate note there were classic British de Havilland biplanes which included the Tiger Moth Diamond Nine Team , DH.83 Fox Moth G-ADHA and Torquil Norman 's recently-restored DH.90 Dragonfly G-AEDU . |
| 15 | On the upper slopes the peonies shared their ground with fireweed and there were tall purple-headed thistles standing among the irises . |
| 16 | There were tall gleaming candlesticks , a glittering cross so bright it seemed to burn , and an enormous golden eagle with hooked beak and shiny dangerous eye . |
| 17 | Both were tall beefy men with the heavy , strong-boned features of the Irish peasant . |
| 18 | Characteristics of the three patient groups are shown in table I. The causes of renal failure in the ARF group were acute tubular necrosis in 15 ( 75% ) patients , haemolytic-uraemic syndrome in 2 ( 10% ) , rapidly progressive nephritis in 2 ( 10% ) , and renal-vein thrombosis in 1 patient . |
| 19 | We are fortunate in that the rabbit population has not to date found us , although in 1983 we had to provide rabbit guards to comply with grant conditions , which were hideous white twists of plastic . |
| 20 | There were liquid blue eyes and a clipped fair moustache . |
| 21 | Then there was the famous Portland spy ring comprising Peter and Helen Kroger and ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , whose real name was Konon Molody , all of whom were professional Russian spies living in England with false identities . |
| 22 | Here and there were strange unexplained heaps of stones on high places . |
| 23 | Others were dissatisfied rusticated youth and unemployed urban workers with Red Guard backgrounds . |
| 24 | It was noted at that time that there were low level information technology utilisation in the departments , consequently the cost of implementation would be a major factor when considering the design of either system . |
| 25 | On either side were low soot-blackened houses , without even a token front garden . |
| 26 | There were metallic twanging sounds . |
| 27 | First of all the tenth-century reformers should not be viewed as if they were eleventh-century papal reformers . |
| 28 | Moreover , before we speak of the transfer of powers , we should remember that these men were not nineteenth-century constitutional lawyers , any more than they were eleventh-century papal reformers . |
| 29 | They were helpless little flies stuck fast to a sticky trap from which there was no escape . |
| 30 | For example , if the sample DNA were total human DNA from a blood sample , and therefore contained 3 × 10 base pairs , amplification of any 300 base pair segment could be specifically achieved . |