Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 2 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 3 | And hay harvesting was a different kettle of fish altogether . |
| 4 | Traditionally , Paris had always been in economic terms artisanal ; the average manufactory employed no more than three or four people , usually engaged in the long-established trades of furniture making or of printing , and factory industry was a rarity . |
| 5 | The measure used in inner-city Belfast to examine the relationship between language variation and network structure was a six-point scale which measured speaker scores on five indicators of multiplexity and density . |
| 6 | ‘ Learning the skills of engraving and design composition was a marvellous initiation into an industry which was obviously poised to make great technical advances at that time in the early 1950's , ’ recalled Roy . |