Example sentences of "was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congruity as found in Berlin was monotonous and although Paris had magnificence and splendour , it lacked beauty and variety . |
| 2 | The road-builders ' diet , mainly cheese and biscuits , was monotonous , but for the average soldier if the beer supply was adequate everything was all right and Wade met the problem of a lack of local supplies in a typically sensible way , as he reported to London in 1733 |
| 3 | McIllvanney 's persistence in the face of any refusal was monotonous and relentless . |
| 4 | It was monotonous , soothing work , and she was half tranced in the warm , heavy evening . |
| 5 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 6 | Her face was flaming red and her eyes sparkled darkly into his . |
| 7 | The land over which the question was to be decided was heathy , with scrub alternating with marsh in the valley . |
| 8 | She was quarrelsome . |
| 9 | Herr Nordern was aghast . |
| 10 | Roirbak was aghast when he saw what had happened to Mellissa . |
| 11 | The piece was quite raunchy , and there was bad language in it ( in keeping with my character ) and when I sat down everyone was aghast . |
| 12 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |
| 13 | He was aghast when he read it , for the problem was one that he had already solved 15 years before . |
| 14 | He was aghast ; he had been so immersed in his work , and his late success , that it had hardly occurred to him to notice the conditions in which they lived , the state to which he had reduced Dinah . |
| 15 | Blanche was aghast . |
| 16 | ‘ My agent was aghast when I did Freejack . |
| 17 | Tom was aghast when he saw the bagpipes . |
| 18 | The latter , contrary to the expressed view of the Chief Whip , was aghast at the prospect of resignation . |
| 19 | Artur Sommerfeld , the professor of theoretical physics , was aghast at this fate for a young man whose brilliance was already apparent . |
| 20 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 21 | But Leo , when she put the idea to him , was aghast . |
| 22 | Now he was aghast . |
| 23 | Dauntless was aghast . |
| 24 | Riven was aghast . |
| 25 | Doreen was aghast . |
| 26 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 27 | Rex was aghast . |
| 28 | FIONA was aghast at the Chancellor 's plan to tax fuel and power in the home . |
| 29 | O 's whole way of making love was strange ; he worked on your body until you could n't stand it , but it was impersonal somehow , as if he was digging inside you to find someone else , something else , something he 'd lost or wanted but could n't find words to ask you for . |
| 30 | It was impersonal , furnished to the exact specifications of any government building in the islands that goes with a civil servant of a particular grade ; the chairs and table in ‘ ant-proof ’ hardwood , lacquered a pale brown , three armchairs , one sofa , chairs and table on the verandah , a desk , two bedrooms , a couple of beds , their legs in jars of water , a shower . |