Example sentences of "[noun] was a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Deal was a complex and highly significant process of change , the effects of which have continued to be felt in American history ever since the 1930s . |
| 2 | In the first instance it stemmed from an understandable utilization of familiar forms to furnish a reassuring and acceptable face for the new means of locomotion and thus allay the fears of travellers for whom speed was a new and potentially alarming phenomenon . |
| 3 | Weaving the seat was a difficult and messy task , for the materials had to be damp to keep them pliable . |
| 4 | Montagu was a serious and talented , although not publicly charismatic Liberal politician , who chose to seek his pleasure and friends in a close-knit coterie whose speciality was ‘ in ’ jokes , to which some contribution was made by the more sophisticated aspect of pre-1914 ( and indeed pre-1939 ) English upper-class anti-semitism . |
| 5 | With the adoption of Christianity by kings and their subjects had come the conception of the " Christian ruler " , for Christ had been the " King of the Jews " and the society of the Old Testament was a kingly and patriarchal one . |
| 6 | Heavily bearded , Scott was a witty and apparently sociable man but became increasingly pedantic and intolerant of views divergent from his own , Doubtless this contributed to the personality problems within the British meteorological establishment during the later nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 8 | Fagan was a bleak and determined little man , tidy and forbidding as only an ex-steeplechase jockey can be . |
| 9 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 10 | Petronius Redburnus was a daring and fortunate gambler . |
| 11 | By contrast to Everton 's lightweight attack Deane was a massive and formidable leader for the visitors . |
| 12 | The drive to Abbotsfield was a slow and unpleasant experience for all of them . |
| 13 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 14 | Unlike his stepson , who favoured building houses for sale or rent , Luther Reynolds was a cold and calculating thinker , a man who thought with his emotions ; a legacy , no doubt , of being starved of love for so many years . |
| 15 | Jane was a kindhearted and helpful Sixer , but Christine was inclined to grumble about Sarah . |
| 16 | Twort was a reserved and somewhat unworldly man . |
| 17 | The burglary of the offices of the Democratic National Committee was a harebrained and quite unnecessary enterprise and the case against the president that eventually forced his resignation could never have been constructed without the re-installation of recording devices in the Oval Office . |
| 18 | God 's guidance in the wilderness was a clear and visible reality . |
| 19 | North 's principal emissary between the White House and the contras was a brawny and cherubic graduate from Stanford , Robert Owen . |
| 20 | Mr Llewellyn said the flag was a strong and distinctive visual idea with a dynamic and free flowing look which , he said , suggested progressiveness and a customer led approach . |
| 21 | Above all the territory was regarded as crucial to Japan 's strategic line of defence , but in this respect Korea was a nearer and more immediate problem . |
| 22 | When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery . |
| 23 | This jealousy between a corps d'elite and those who are not able or willing to come under its patronage is understandable , and became more understandable to me when I reached Hyderabad and found that the Institute was a self-contained and sequestered community , and that its comparatively luxurious campus bore a faint resemblance to a military camp , with living quarters graded according to the status of their occupants . |
| 24 | Some people feel them as a kind of outrage and violation , and Boden was a strong-minded and passionate man . |
| 25 | The court found that there was a wide division of opinion among actuaries as to the relative merits of both methods , that the method chosen by the actuary was a fair and proper method , and that the calculation based on that method was unobjectionable . |
| 26 | By its very nature , Dialectical Theology was a vital and tempestuous movement , and its leaders were by no means all of the same stamp . |
| 27 | Edith Saunders was a well-known and highly respected figure in Cambridge for many decades . |
| 28 | The Linny was a new and fashionable area and Elsie did her best to live up to it . |
| 29 | The marquis was a sophisticated and generous lover , well-versed in the art of pleasing women . |
| 30 | In their midst was a lean and hot-eyed man toying with glass and wearing an expression as fierce as a fusitron . |