Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National made between 3,000 and 5,000 Tri-Plate instruments , and out of all those , less than 600 or 700 were round-neck Tri-Plate guitars , since square-necks were standard and round-necks were a custom order . |
| 2 | USAC was fine and Mario was a star there , but to be a real star in America , you have to win Indianapolis , and that was one place , Mario recalls , where he had a really lean time of it . |
| 3 | According to him , the Black and Tans were a terror force , hastily recruited from ex-soldiers to carry out a policy of naked and bloody reprisals against the IRA . |
| 4 | Being a child when the state was publicly engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my particular circumstances , its central benefit being that , unlike my mother , the state asked for nothing in return . |
| 5 | What lay behind the beliefs of the Great and Good was a sense of custodianship . |
| 6 | The same weekend in 1990 was identical and sketching was a tedium of narrowed eyes against the glare . |
| 7 | People in the secret services wanted Graham Mills dead and Marek was a tool that came conveniently to hand . |