Example sentences of "[coord] [ex0] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or there was the antique shop in Beaumont Street , only one flummoxed woman who was always shutting for ‘ ten minutes ’ . |
| 2 | And there was the great Lord Byron , a powerful name , a man well known to espouse the cause of freedom . |
| 3 | The forest thinned to a plateau of wind-worn scrubland and there was the aromatic scent of rosemary and thyme . |
| 4 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 5 | And there was the like for the corn and that we used to what we called hammling it was done with a flail . |
| 6 | For South Korea there was no love of Japan and there was the current controversy arising from Japanese treatment of the sizeable Korean community living in Japan . |
| 7 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 8 | Both Kirkman Finlay and Dixon were Whigs , the Tory nominees in the Burgh Councils not having obtained the burgh nomination , and there was the curious position of two candidates from the same party contesting the same Parliamentary seat . |
| 9 | There was the fictitious crisis involving tourists dying of food poisoning in Portugal , and another concerning a foreign minister who vanished without trace in Budapest , and there was the Chilean dope smuggler arrested in Miami who was found to have sixteen wives . |
| 10 | And there was the unspoken assumption that , if I failed , I was letting the side down , disappointing my parents , hurting them . |
| 11 | Directly he had done praying he looked up , and there was the sun-god standing beside him . |
| 12 | And there was the strong smell of hot tar . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , the examination helped to focus attention on relevant facts and issues about the situation , although drawing the rich picture was quite difficult , and there was the usual tendency to include too much detail . |
| 14 | And there was the usual squad of veterans , some selling T-shirts , many with POW/MIA hats and stickers . |
| 15 | They sent a chopper and an ambulance to recover the body and there was the usual swarm of gendarmes rushing around . ’ |
| 16 | On the other hand , the King was ill and there was the usual pressure for a Tory/Liberal combination to keep Labour out . |
| 17 | And there was the best one of course , your cousin was able to use . |
| 18 | And there was the six … sixteen . |
| 19 | And there was the additional point that on their return they had appeared cheerful , as if from a windfall . |
| 20 | Yes , and there was the first of the three dead cows . |
| 21 | From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display . |
| 22 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 23 | Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them . |
| 24 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 25 | Here and there was the occasional flower bed ; the lilies and other wild flowers struggling to thrive amongst the brambles and weeds . |
| 26 | No , no , there was the girls school and there was the two boys school |
| 27 | But there were strong iron bars at the windows , and there was the dry , stick-like sound of bones ; there was the mindless chuckling again … |
| 28 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |
| 29 | Much of London society had moved to Brussels for the summer , there were army officers who would be mortified if they were not invited , and there was the local aristocracy who had to be entertained . |
| 30 | There was the village omda and there was the local sheikh . |