Example sentences of "and [adj] was [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 2 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
| 3 | Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in |
| 4 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 5 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 6 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 7 | Even so , I noticed Rosie was doing it , and that was quite a sight too ! |
| 8 | I thought , ‘ This name looks good in print , ’ and that was quite a relief because Aspel is not a good name to pronounce — people always want to say Aspirin or Cesspool … . |
| 9 | Mouthed all the swear words I could think of — and that was quite a lot . |
| 10 | And that was quite a lot of money |
| 11 | And that was quite an experience . |
| 12 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 13 | And that was only a fraction of the tricks he said he could do in his Heyday . |
| 14 | On the other hand , her grey eyes were big , and that was usually a sign of hunger . |
| 15 | And that was certainly a start . |
| 16 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 17 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 18 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 19 | Britain acquired large parts of North America ( until the independence of the USA in 1776 ) , the West Indies , the West African coast , and the Indian sub-continent and this was partly a cause , partly a reinforcement of industrial growth : ‘ We were , or we increasingly became , the agency of economic interchange between the advanced and the backward , the industrial and the primary-producing , the metropolitan and the colonial or quasi-colonial regions of the world ’ ( Hobsbawm , 1969 , 14 ) . |
| 20 | When the restorer was driven out of Bohemia in 1945 , he managed — and this was truly a miracle — to take the picture with him over the frontier into Bavaria . |
| 21 | And this was only a part of the ceremonial which surrounded the office with glamour and reminded the king 's subjects that he was God 's anointed — a notion which inspired them with great awe , when they were not actually engaged in rebellion against him . |
| 22 | In other words , the repatriations of the Yugoslavs should continue ; the methods being used to carry them out were found to be " satisfactory " as an alternative to the " use of force " , and this was now a matter of full agreement between Eighth Army and AFHQ . |
| 23 | This has been dealt with above , and it stands on a quite different footing from the other forgeries in three important respects : first , it was never mentioned by Lanfranc ; second , it was not concerned with the claim to primacy but solely with the survival of the monastic community at Canterbury , and this was never an issue after 1070 ; and , third , unlike the forgeries with which we are now concerned , it was actually submitted to Rome and approved . |
| 24 | It has also been argued strongly , especially by Andrew Scull ( 1977 ) , that the move towards creating ‘ alternatives to custody ’ in the 1960s and 1970s was primarily a product of fiscal calculation ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 25 | The somewhat unitary , homogenized world of local politics in the '50s and '60s was thus a reflection of wider social relations , of wider values , and of a wider economic stability — all of which have now disappeared . |
| 26 | If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size . |