Example sentences of "and [conj] it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 2 | None of the writers realized that the Cubism of this date relied on a balance between abstraction and representation to achieve its effects , and that it was this balance that gave each work a significance on more levels than one . |
| 3 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 4 | There was no sign of Carrie and although it was milking time the cows were still in the field . |
| 5 | They 're water under the bridge , and if it was murky water … ’ |
| 6 | And if it was bad weather he 'd to take them home again . |
| 7 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 8 | When stardom struck , he was already in his thirties , the hair showed signs of receding and because it was brown Beatty taught him a trick with make-up shadow that reduced the emphasis of an enlarged forehead . |
| 9 | It crept forward , slowly building up speed , and when it was twenty yards behind them the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor . |