Example sentences of "[coord] that [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Shortly after their arrival however , there was the beginnings of a small fire towards the back of one of the vehicles which very rapidly spread and ignited the vapours for one of the loads of the lorries and that was industrial resin carried in drums . ’ |
| 2 | If filmed destruction to draw attention to expendability seems to hard to bear , there was one other radical solution canvassed at Eindhoven and that was terminal neglect . |
| 3 | Well , that was interesting , it was interesting discussion , er , thanks to an excellent paper , we 're , we 're , we 're delighted , and that was first rate . |
| 4 | I says my god I says it 'll never be known that my brother said that you can be anything and that was first thing he ever gave me . |
| 5 | The contract was worth £1.31 million , and that was good money by the standards of the business owned and run by Justin Pink . |
| 6 | Invites Black to move forward and that was good defending from Greyson . |
| 7 | This meant we were playing with Paul in the third round and that was good news for me because Paul 's caddie is a good friend of mine , Kevin Woodward . |
| 8 | And that was all copper , and I had to clean that every morning with a kind of paste ; and to do all the stairs and landings , and the rooms downstairs . |
| 9 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 10 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 11 | There seemed only one man who could , and that was Bonar Law , his fragile health somewhat improved as a result of eighteen months out of the Government , and his loyalty to Lloyd George and Austen Chamberlain weakened by the same cause . |
| 12 | We 're talking here about the late Forties and early Fifties and that was modern music then … ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And that was one reason why the United States was willing to aid European countries . |
| 15 | And that was real damage , irreversible . |
| 16 | Erm and that was normal practice until the early part of the century , about nineteen O seven I think it was that the started using the er forty five degree angles , style . |
| 17 | And that was next door to the tannery . |
| 18 | I think the last the last heading you got , well you put a heading down before we finished and that was organisational behaviour and modification . |
| 19 | She was getting to him , wriggling past his defences and beginning to matter , and that was bad news . |
| 20 | And that was quick work . |
| 21 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 22 | He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week . |
| 23 | And that was last summer and that was the next summer and the girl , one of the gir the people that was in the car gets a letter |
| 24 | The only concrete information I had , and that was more sand than cement , was from Froggy Davies 's sister . |
| 25 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 26 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 27 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 28 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 29 | I dated Courtney Love for a while and that was another education on how people perceive . |
| 30 | And that was another detail making me uneasy . |