Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack could not possibly run the house from Oxford , and Warnie was still a serving officer in the Army . |
| 2 | Two Man of the Match performances in the victories over Wales and England were just a foretaste of what followed . |
| 3 | And Tutilo was indeed a brother , and at large that night , and expected to be upon that path . |
| 4 | The sixties were gone and Hopper was just a memory . |
| 5 | The Americans turned the Islands into a plantation and Honolulu was now the business centre of the Pacific . |
| 6 | ‘ And Monday was just a nightmare . |
| 7 | And Lancaster was just the sort of geezer to know his solicitor 's telephone number off by heart . |
| 8 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 9 | The televised debate in October 1988 between Bush and Dukakis was virtually a repeat , in terms of people-winning , of Reagan/Carter in 1980 . |
| 10 | Few realized that Depailler and Hunt were both a lap down on Andretti . |
| 11 | The image of the planet receded and Tarvaras was suddenly a component of a larger system . |
| 12 | Marine was a consumer deal and that the new one made between Rasbora Ltd. and J.C.L.Marine was also a consumer deal , i.e. that the novation did not alter the consumer nature of the contract . |
| 13 | The dispute between Derrida and Foucault was less a question of text versus history than an argument about history itself . |
| 14 | He did say them jokes — it was an effective way of teaching English idiom and Cottle was never a man to miss an opportunity to use humour constructively . |
| 15 | And Ipea was just the opposite . |
| 16 | The attempt to impose a consistent out-door policy throughout England and Wales was effectively a failure . |
| 17 | After all , Jeopardy commanded high status within the house and Lucien was only a newcomer . |
| 18 | A rifle through old issues of NME during the Baker era reveals only a few features here and there : his singles reviews columns remain legend in the NME office to this day , but Baker was never the interview machine that , say , Tony Parsons or Paul Morley were . |
| 19 | But Atlanta was also a party . |
| 20 | Most of them were dogfish-sized , but Dunkleosteus was twice the length of a man , and was surely the most formidable predator of its day . |
| 21 | But Ingolstadt was also the town where Dr Johann Eck spent most of his life . |
| 22 | But Gerry was never a child . |
| 23 | But Danjit was only the hand that held the vibroblade . |
| 24 | But Seth was also the kind of boyfriend who would visit Suzy at the bar where she worked , with a prostitute on his arm . |
| 25 | ‘ To find out how it worked , ’ Florian conceded graciously , but Luke was still the audience he was trying to impress . |
| 26 | But Lequerica was also a monarchist , and thus acceptable to the pro-restorationists in Spain . |