Example sentences of "and [adv] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 2 | As the Lord Mayor Albert was also returning officer on the night and so was the first to see the result . |
| 3 | Thorkell was there , having in the interval been in English service , and so was the Norwegian Earl Eric of Lade , and , if we can trust Thietmar of Merseburg , one Thorgut . |
| 4 | It was empty now , and so was the echoing hall of the old , its oxen safely stabled . |
| 5 | And so was the famous old Raffles Hotel ( although it 's been rebuilt since his visit ) just as he remembered it — from the outside , that is . |
| 6 | As is invariably the case , the chorus 's singing was first-rate and so was the orchestral playing . |
| 7 | The swelling was still very perceptible , and so was the bruised look . |
| 8 | And so was the written word — but perhaps less so . |
| 9 | He had lent his telephone to a colleague , and so was the last to leave the Press box as he transmitted his Rangers-Celtic match report . |
| 10 | The nearby red Hereford was often fully finchbacked in the eighteenth century and so was the old Castlemartin of Pembrokeshire , later incorporated into the Welsh Black . |
| 11 | It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill . |
| 12 | Deeper and deeper was the basic recession message in the British Chambers of Commerce quarterly economic survey . |
| 13 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 14 | Readers were to be left with the impression that a ‘ woodchopper ’ beating out the time audibly and often was the inevitable result and proof of unmusical French ‘ good taste ’ : one preferring permanent metrical chaos . |
| 15 | But ( and here was the apparent cause of difficulty ) we have seen that entrepreneurship can neverbe immune from the competitive pressure . |
| 16 | And here was the finest country air , transparent sparkling sun , the distant low hills and soft basking meadows half-hidden by the blue haze of noon . |
| 17 | ‘ He gave me my first winner when I started training in 1987 , and today was the 100th race of his career and his 10th victory . ’ |
| 18 | And today was the big day — the day of the children 's party . |
| 19 | But now work on their old school is approaching its end and today was the last time for the children on the buses . |
| 20 | er and er so he employed somebody there and then was the little farm at the time . |
| 21 | And why was the medical possibility that the women who attended Bristol had more serious disease not properly investigated or put forward for media consumption ? |
| 22 | And why was the particular form of the deal chosen , with Mitsubishi as the minority partner granted a ( seemingly lucrative ) import licence for its own components ? |
| 23 | And where was the actual relief station ? |
| 24 | Garcia of Galicia lacked the ability possessed by his brothers and accordingly was the first victim of the discord among them all . |