Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robertson and Sked thought that it was a good idea but the without troops to back it up , it would be a non-starter , mere ‘ gesture politics ’ . |
| 2 | After being degraded to the level of a vegetable market , the Piece Hall was rightly recognized as an architectural and industrial monument that it was important to preserve , and part of it now houses the town 's Textile Museum , which is open throughout the year . |
| 3 | In the 1970s Australia and California were producing such full , fruity and oaky Chardonnays that it was hard to drink more than one glass . |
| 4 | Neil Kinnock advanced the extraordinarily lame and inaccurate excuse that it was always difficult for Oppositions in mid-term , but no one was really deceived . |
| 5 | It somehow gave the impression that the fowl had led such a delightful and pleasurable existence that it was a positive act of virtue to eat it . |
| 6 | This met with the approval of the development officers who felt that it would be much easier to explain to potential clients and their relatives and other service-providers that it was an experimental scheme confined to one area of the borough only . |
| 7 | The Christmas rumpus led to unfair and short-sighted predictions that it was the swansong in Frank McAvennie 's eventful career . |