Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we sat on her open decks in the fresh , warm air , we realised how sensible this was when passing the other 200-odd cruisers on the river : big and flat-topped like aircraft-carriers , almost hermetically-sealed and air-conditioned throughout ; most with television in every cabin , shops , disco and Muzak . |
| 2 | The minimum this required was that Galileo should be warned that a heliostatic universe had been found formally heretical and that he must no longer hold or defend it . |
| 3 | But , what Freud had realized by the nineteen twenties was that there are lots of different ways of doing that , and has given one example . |
| 4 | That 's it eighteen ninety four was when I was born . |
| 5 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 6 | Invariably , afterwards , he found himself thinking about Liza Tremayne and all that was or might have been . |
| 7 | But of course all that was because she was leaving . |
| 8 | Her three-day trip to France was the catalyst of all that was and is to come . |
| 9 | Where teaching was unsatisfactory this was because of an over-dependence on formal lectures . |
| 10 | All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin . |
| 11 | The result of all this was that the Escort languished in some unfamiliar positions in the top 10 sales chart . |
| 12 | A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served . |
| 13 | The upshot of all this was that in 1959 the State of Tennessee ruled to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School . |
| 14 | The result of all this was that the Government 's claims about the march and its defence of the actions of the police carried very little conviction outside the ranks of its own supporters . |
| 15 | One slight advantage of all this was that nobody had time to consider the fate of L Detachment . |
| 16 | Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this . |
| 17 | The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her . |
| 18 | One consequence of all this was that when a Commons Defence Committee later met to disentangle the many grievances , John Nott — the defence secretary who ‘ misled ’ the Commons about the circumstances of the sinking of the General Belgrano — explained : ‘ In a few years ’ time , with satellites , the task of censorship will become an impossible one . ’ |
| 19 | Yet it was hard to believe that the explanation for all this was that a schoolboy was in the hands of devils . |
| 20 | The only good thing about all this was that the procession was going to march through the Old City . |
| 21 | I underwent the most frightening time of life , and all this was because of ignorance . |
| 22 | A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils ( which were given responsibility for housing ) . |
| 23 | What mattered to the informed public in the late 1850s was whether the building was to be Gothic , Classical , Tudor , Italianate or an eclectic design . |
| 24 | And in Hoover 's case it is especially relevant because , according to numerous crime sources , the reason that Hoover never pursued organised crime after the late '30s was that the mob , in the shape of Meyer Lansky no less , had the mockers on him because of evidence of his homosexuality . ’ |
| 25 | That was Elgar 's Pomp and Circumstance March number one that was and that brings you back to afternoon special on your favourite local radio station . |
| 26 | At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends . |
| 27 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 28 | One essential was that the head had to make it clear to his colleagues that he trusted them . |
| 29 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 30 | Twenty one was when you finished your apprenticeship , |