Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] was [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was only one person she could have happily shared her home with and that was Daphne Bleech-Palmer . |
| 2 | And that was Arthur Platon who died , died very suddenly . |
| 3 | But Dr McNab had at least one attentive listener and that was Dr Dunstaple . |
| 4 | I had met only one other Lord Chief Justice and that was Lord Goddard . |
| 5 | And that was Mrs Sheldon 's side of the story as related forty-one years later after the death of her husband . |
| 6 | And that was Monte casino on that one . |
| 7 | And that was Mid-Wales district council . |
| 8 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |
| 9 | Not too long ago there was only one recognised bait , and that was bread crust . |
| 10 | and that was pillow covers , well shams |
| 11 | And that was Alex Household . |
| 12 | Next to Churchill there was only one man whom Mrs Robson apparently favoured , and that was Sir Arthur Harris , because was n't he sending bombers over by the thousand to knock hell out of them over there ? |
| 13 | There was one great hero , in that nineteen forty five government and that was Ni Bevan . |
| 14 | And that was Mr Ju somebody . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ It 's always easy with hindsight to scapegoat the professionals but there was only one culprit and that was Mr Feathers . ’ |
| 16 | There was old , old only sold one thing and that was naphthalene balls , you ken ? |
| 17 | That was Fiona , in the bed , on the bed , covers half off , the only light in the room coming from a little candle by the bedside , her hair spilled on the pillow ( the other pillow was on the floor ) … and that was Lachlan Watt , wrapped round her , body bucking like some horse , his hands at her neck , at one breast , in her hair , cupping her neck ; the covers sliding off , Fiona putting her arms wide , clutching at the bottom sheet of the bed at one side , clutching the edge of the bedside table with the other . |
| 18 | For the to go forward to the R S M C and that was Railway Staff National Council . |
| 19 | It was the beginning of these automatics , you 've seen these photos on the , on the television where these welders come down and they go in like this , well these was the beginning of that sort of thing because it was worked with a motor and a cam which er er the cam went round and it 'd lift the arm up and when it was went past the , the knuckle it 'd drop down and the speed you them out or the speed you sent them out how fast the arm would go up and down , and that was stitch welding . |
| 20 | And this was Dr Malan of Geneva ! ’ |
| 21 | And this was San Key park . |
| 22 | And this was Bruno Walter , s great point . |
| 23 | One other person was present during this period and this was John Coffin . |
| 24 | One was Lord Parker ( who had just retired as Lord Chief Justice ) and another was Lord Gardiner ( who had been Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 25 | No — their secrets were first revealed to curious scientific men , to apothecaries and simples-collectors , to people who could now be called botanists , and such was Evan Roberts . |
| 26 | The great promoter of such voyages in the 1860s and 1870s was William Carpenter of the University of London ; and in March 1871 he gave a Discourse at the Royal Institution on recent scientific researches in the Mediterranean , in HMS Porcupine . |
| 27 | Charles Briant had spoken in his fine voice that carried to the very edge of the crowd , telling the people of Swansea how talented and gifted was Angharad Morgan . |
| 28 | Second place went to Colin Robertson with 11lb 14oz and third was Ricky Farrance with 1lb 8oz . |
| 29 | The winner of the boat section was Billy Gay of the Surfmasters Club ; runner-up was George Creighton and third was David Bailey of the East Belfast Club . |
| 30 | The fifth import was Peterae Lynnes Star , and last was Lamez Caesar , both imported from Australia . |