Example sentences of "and [noun prp] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was young and Roger was in the colonial service , young single European women were much in demand . |
| 2 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 3 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 4 | it existed , in reality , because Ford needed something special to tempt people into their showrooms and Shelby was in the right place at the right time to provide it . |
| 5 | The great era of station-building in Asia , Australasia , and Africa was between the 1860s and the 1920s , with the boom years from 1890 to 1914 . |
| 6 | The feat was all the more admirable in that the notorious Armstrongs had been among the major headaches in the region under his own jurisdiction , and Willie was among the worst . |
| 7 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 8 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 9 | At the end of the last series , presenter Gordon Burns invited anyone who was interested in taking part to write in and ask for a place — and Paul was among the 8,000 who applied . |
| 10 | The upshot of this meeting was that Muldoon phoned Mueller and Klepner was on the next plane to Detroit with photostat copies of Mark 's plan , for Mueller 's eyes only . |
| 11 | In June the Second Front began and John was in the first wave of troops to cross the Channel . |
| 12 | And Bevir was in the strong position , that neither archbishop wished to deny that Ramsey would make a good bishop . |