Example sentences of "[adj] was [noun] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to this was machine and foundry work for Horwich , Derby and Crewe Locomotive Works . |
| 2 | This was thunder and lightning . |
| 3 | This was 23% and 40% , respectively , of the average weekly disposable income of all households ( Family Expenditure Survey 1989 ) . |
| 4 | Well all this side of First Avenue of course was all country all this was fields and corn fields and what have you |
| 5 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 6 | Well Digital Equipment Corp always said it would catch up with IBM Corp , come what may , and the company has just about done it : IBM 's loss for 1991 was $2,827m and DEC 's loss for the year $2,780m . |
| 7 | They said that Qaddafi , Qaddafi 's ideology and men , were transitory ; what was permanent and natural was family and friendship . |
| 8 | Now all was noise and confusion , as he tried to hold two of them off with his single bayonet , and most of his countrymen were dead or in retreat . |
| 9 | The area was on a war footing and all was bustle and preparation , expecting the hourly arrival of the enemy . |
| 10 | All was bustle and confidence . |
| 11 | Backstage , in Therese 's dressing room , all was excitement and congratulations — Willi , old Anton , Alfred , the entire Hochhauser Theatre committee complete with the Easter egg — the expensive dress had found an occasion worthy of a second showing — and Hans , a smugly self-satisfied Hans who sat in the only chair sipping a glass of champagne provided by Willi . |
| 12 | There was a slight lurch and suddenly Nails found that all was sweetness and light ; he was moving with delicious ease , his bottom glued to the saddle , no slithering , no jerking , no bumping , just a pleasant sensation of moving to a smooth , easy rhythm . |
| 13 | But on the surface , at least , all was sweetness and light , and there was no doubt that his affection for Kirsty was genuine . |
| 14 | There was a war on , the military were in control , and all was chaos and confusion . |
| 15 | But , instead of the freedom and ease they had longed for , all they felt was emptiness where once all was tension and work . |
| 16 | There , in an upper hall a great log fire blazed and all was comfort and warmth , with attractive furnishings , colourful wall-hangings and tapestries , cushioned benches , skin rugs on the floor and the feminine touch everywhere evident . |
| 17 | All was desolation and decay . |
| 18 | Beneath the moon , all was corruption and change . |
| 19 | The first was alterations and link annex to West Harroll and Durrock Road . |
| 20 | The most notable was Windsor and Eton , where it is possible to see it now in its pristine state , for in 1983 Madame Tussaud 's opened the fully restored and refurbished royal station , adjoining the main Windsor terminal and unused for thirty years . |
| 21 | Figure 4.3 was McKinsey and Co 's attempt to spell this out in more detail . |
| 22 | That was mum and dad was n't it ? |
| 23 | Erm that was Mark and Jeremy and unless somebody owns up they were pinging a dried pea at Lee and nearly hit Mr ! |
| 24 | No it 's that was Sarah and Elsa was n't it ? |
| 25 | That was Tuesday and Thursday from 6.30 to 9.00pm , it was a two-year course . |
| 26 | That was Justice and Peace Group at St. Ersly ? |
| 27 | That was stardom and Kenneth Williams was a star , even if his appeal was mostly on home territory . |
| 28 | I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh , I always remember when when erm when the first houses , when we lived , when I lived with me mother , and in that house we lived in was a big estate erm near us and erm ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there and , I do n't know who it was , somebody wanted a place , could n't get anywhere and my mother went up there with you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said , nearly everybody on that estate 's Welsh ourselves . |
| 29 | and there was only two people I felt comfortable , two and that was Barbara and June , that , that the two people I felt , one of them looked |
| 30 | Among the few topics consistently under-represented was Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and no evidence suggested that the languages and varieties of language of all ethnic groups were being built upon . |