Example sentences of "was [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiment was short-lived and a failure ; but it suggested that the young king might not be able to reckon as a matter of course on wielding all the powers of his great predecessor . |
| 2 | He was asleep but a voice from behind me might have curdled anybody 's dreams . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) The system was specific and a lot of re-programming would be required to make it work elsewhere . |
| 4 | What the hell was that but a declaration ? |
| 5 | Apart from dog sitting , she was free and a year later the two are still together ! |
| 6 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 8 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 9 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 10 | ‘ I found that delivering babies was exciting and a bit scary , but I noticed that the environment was not comfortable for women . |
| 11 | It was interesting but a bit comical , really . |
| 12 | She was old and a snob . |
| 13 | On her way to her desk she tried to collect a beaker of iced water but the machine was empty and a knot of querulous men were standing around it demanding something be done . |
| 14 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |
| 15 | He was a proper fop : his roses and cream complexion was clean-shaven and a silver pearl dangled from a small gold chain in his right ear lobe . |
| 16 | The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal . |
| 17 | Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it . |
| 18 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 19 | I did wonder if it was a nightmare because it 's so vivid … have you ever had something you remember from your childhood which was so horrible and awful that you 're not quite sure whether it was real or a nightmare ? |
| 20 | He had switched-off the assembly track one Friday afternoon , half an hour before finishing time , ostensibly on the grounds that the overhead conveyor was unsafe and a danger to line operators working below . |
| 21 | It was tiny but a reminder that there are still poisonous snakes in the region — a fact which is all too easy to forget . |
| 22 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 23 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
| 24 | The night was dark and a fog was coming in from the river , but she hesitated . |
| 25 | The note was unpaid and an action brought against the three was compromised by the giving of three notes , one of 1 January 1832 for 13 months in the sum of £52.18s.8d. and the other two now sued on . |
| 26 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 27 | and Jacobitism than it had been in the previous year , yet Craigbarnet 's plight was serious and a failure to help him would offend many . |
| 28 | Every finger was numb and a world away . |
| 29 | Fred MacMurray was easy-going and a pleasure to work with ; Herbert Marshall was , as usual , his British self and a great actor ; Edgar Bergen and his dummy made great fun of everything they encountered , and it was an experience to see the manipulation and ventriloquism involved in the Bergen-McCarthy act . |
| 30 | Several customers had similar tales to tell although there seemed none of the panic of the previous year , only a feeling that war was inevitable and a preoccupation with details . |