Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were red-rimmed with black bags underneath . |
| 2 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |
| 3 | The wilder ones were rampant about black magic , the gruesome style of the mutilations , of kinky sex videos starring Polanski and his wife found at the house , and of the deep drug involvements of three of the victims . |
| 4 | Some mistakes were due to genuine misunderstanding or fatigue ; others I am afraid can only be accounted for by criminal stupidity or irresponsibility . |
| 5 | Some experts suggested they were due to other industries nearby — like chemical factories and oil refineries . |
| 6 | He did not say much but agreed that he had had queer thoughts ad wondered whether they really were due to normal depression or the influence of the discovery . |
| 7 | His own crops , if a good yield , were due to splendid husbandry , while any other farmer 's were attributed to good land . |
| 8 | The therapist suggested that many of the problems that had arisen were due to poor communication between Pamela and her parents , and that this had led to a sense of mistrust on both sides . |
| 9 | In many cases there was no doubt at all : the glass had been in contact with some other solid and the cracks were due to simple scratching or scraping . |
| 10 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that many of the problems that British Rail experienced on the east coast line at the end of last year were due to criminal vandalism affecting the signalling system , particularly in Scotland and the north of England ? |
| 11 | The losses in 1992 were due to non-recurrent factors , such as its share of then-subsidiary CCMC 's losses , losses on disposal of assets during restructuring and exceptional provisions for amortisation of goodwill . |
| 12 | A total of 316 of the deaths in the 1586 men were due to cardiovascular disease , 235 being certified as due to ischaemic heart disease , 49 to stroke , and 32 to other circulatory diseases . |
| 13 | The third measles trial reported that of the 12 deaths ( 10 in controls , two in those given vitamin A ) , 10 were due to respiratory disease . |
| 14 | As to the recent faults the committee concluded that they were due to careless handling of the cable during laying , to poor design and to bad practices in overall manufacture . |
| 15 | Similarly , but on a lesser scale — although still very big — the Californian earthquakes of San Francisco and Owens Valley were due to crustal movement and not to volcanoes . |
| 16 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 17 | In both Alcoa and United Shoe the courts acknowledged that the defendants had built their market shares by legal means , but none the less found them guilty because their respective dominant positions were due to conscious choice . |
| 18 | On this basis , geologists can be confident that the two phases of accelerated sea-level rise were due to dramatic additions of meltwater to the oceans from melting northern hemisphere ice sheets . |
| 19 | This was particularly true in relation to many of the primaries immediately following the New Hampshire contest , which were due in Southern states where Duke 's support was expected to be strongest . |
| 20 | These successes for the SPD and the Greens were due in large measure to declining public confidence in Kohl 's leadership , especially after tax increases to meet the costs of unification became inevitable despite election promises by Kohl that they would not be necessary [ see pp. 37904 ; 38297 ; 38109 ] . |
| 21 | Saturday afternoons , when the streets were solid with white faces , was a carnival of consumerism as goods were ripped from shelves . |
| 22 | Amidst the ‘ garotting ’ agitations of 1862 , however , those who were discontented with crinolined philanthropy and magnanimous justice discovered a much more amenable slogan around which to marshal their energies . |
| 23 | ‘ Of the 15 companies in which offences were attributable to organizational defects , nine made significant changes designed to reduce the likelihood of recidivism . |
| 24 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | But the dealers were alert to new traces , if only because a single coin — the bronze ears of barley on the local currency of Rubi , with Demeter 's garlanded head on the obverse — might lead , like a broken twig , a crackle of a dry leaf , to greater treasure ; the boys could earn a lustrous fizzy drink from the new carbonator , or a cigarette in the cafe , with a promise to show the location of the trivial find . |
| 26 | While some filmmakers were making expensive films positioned in a European never-never-land , believing that placeless films were preferable to British films , the documentarists and , to some extent , the makers of quota pictures , were dealing with a more everyday level of life . |
| 27 | Seurat and his colleagues argued that Pointillism was a scientifically modern style , while the Symbolists asserted that spiritual values were preferable to artistic programmes of perception . |
| 28 | It does however , seem likely that working class wives were tolerant of occasional abuse , provided that husbands had what they considered ‘ just cause ’ . |
| 29 | All specimens in these control patients were taken from a site at least 5 cm from any macroscopic abnormality , and adjacent mucosal specimens , which were normal on histological examination were obtained in all . |
| 30 | More than three in four of the 828 adults interviewed were upset by dirty toilets at departure points while 74 per cent complained about lack of information when travel delays occurred . |