Example sentences of "[ex0] was a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a sharp and charged silence . |
| 2 | The idea may defy the commonly accepted principles of the art of conjuring but fifty years age there was a small and enthusiastic group of nude conjurors . |
| 3 | At that time almost 90% of the whole education programme of Rhodesia was in the hands of missionaries and there was a great and growing demand . |
| 4 | First , there was a powerful and widespread revolt against the rather cold and abstract notion of reason which had earlier held the field , and a fresh interest in the whole range of human experience , including feeling and emotion . |
| 5 | There was a worn and weather-beaten seat , hewn out of a fallen tree trunk . |
| 6 | And er , that 's right and they told me what they wanted and er that 's right , there was a hundred and fifty-five locks . |
| 7 | Between six and ten years ago , there was a hundred and eighty pits in this country , yes a hundred and eighty pits , now we have a handful left and it has been leaked that all thirty one pits will still be closed within twelve months , done quietly and by the back door ignoring procedures and over the years this is what has been done . |
| 8 | There was a similar and complementary ambiguity about the term " aristocracy " . |
| 9 | There was a rich and spicy smell ; Helen had left the dinner in the oven . |
| 10 | There was , for instance , a project for a " music drama " that Nietzsche began in the autumn of 1870 , and there was a new and strong Wagnerian flavour in his musical compositions of 1871 : the explicit emphasis on Wagner in the developing book is in no way an isolated phenomenon . |
| 11 | August 1991 was not out before there was a new and dispiriting development . |
| 12 | There was a shocked and disapproving cluck from the committee men . |
| 13 | According to Bernard , as there was a long and well-established tradition of acceptability of anti-predestinarian theology going back to 1559 and beyond , the events of the 1630s did not represent any sea-change in the doctrinal position of the English church . |
| 14 | There was also a straight and direct access route by way of a corridor in the middle of the West Wing , whereas at Knossos there was a long and circuitous route by way of the Procession Corridor , which doubles back on itself before arriving at the southern end of the Central Court ; the Phaistos entrance seems closer in spirit to the more direct west-east access corridor of the Knossos First Temple . |
| 15 | But in the case of most crafts there was a long and complex development towards the radically different organization of the craft or trade union , which belongs to the epoch of predominantly capitalist development and social relations . |
| 16 | Table 8. 1 above shows that between 1978 — 9 and 1988 — 9 there was a major and planned increase in real terms in spending on defence and law and order ; spending on housing and industry were heavily cut , while on education ( helped by a fall in numbers of school children ) and on transport it stayed fairly constant . |
| 17 | He was held not liable as there was a real and imminent danger and he had done what was reasonably necessary . |
| 18 | As in the sixteenth century there was a persistent and widespread feeling that an administrative or , better still , court appointment at home provided much rosier prospects . |
| 19 | Parma went mad : there was a tremendous and indescribable exultation . |
| 20 | The Ukraine suffered particularly heavy losses during the 1930s there was a devastating and , it is now accepted , largely man-made famine during the early part of the decade , and the republican leadership was badly affected by charges of ‘ nationalism ’ ( in practice , for pointing out the likely outcomes of central policies ) . |
| 21 | There was a strong and pure Greek revival which happened as a result of contemporary scholars studying Greek antiquities , and which produced severe and masculine architecture . |
| 22 | There was a strong and efficient band , all Wolverton men under the leadership of Bandmaster Brooks , and an ambulance squad of eight men , all of whom had qualified for the Geneva Badge . |
| 23 | Mr. Woodward said that there was a substantial and clearly defined trackway used by local traffic presently running parallel to the east of the track joining others to the west and north of the parish boundary . |
| 24 | I am thankful and happy that there was a strange and foreign soul caring about the destiny of a political prisoner in East Germany … when we passed the border last night , I just cried . ’ |
| 25 | Chris explained : ‘ James here is our scorer and Mr Marshall signalled four wides when there was a wide and the ball went to the boundary , but the other side 's scorer says you ca n't have four wides at once , only one , and the other three must count as byes . |
| 26 | The same meeting approved voting rights to Retired Members , providing there was a continuous and unbroken record of payment as a Full Member for at least 25 years . |
| 27 | There was a terrible and I |
| 28 | There was a sinister and often rehearsed entrance wearing a long cloak and looking like Count Dracula . |
| 29 | There was a half-hearted and unconvincing attempt to justify fins . |
| 30 | In three of the patients , the duodenal biopsies were normal and in the others there was a chronic and acute inflammatory cell infiltrate and evidence of gastric metaplasia . |