Example sentences of "that was [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That was young Tony Radcliffe you were out with , was n't it ? ’
2 Well , that was one management style , but it was n't his .
3 That was one John Coffin , perhaps the better man of the two .
4 That was one thing Jezrael had that she had never attained .
5 That was one thing Andrew could n't do , because he had to be at the Works by eight o'clock and Emma did n't start school until nine .
6 That was one reason Mr Walesa called one .
7 Now that was pure spaghetti Jean .
8 Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work .
9 And a major reason for that was comparative operating costs .
10 That was all media speculation and market rumour and we have no plans to do so now ’ Lord Hanson 's message to his shareholders .
11 Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane .
12 That was all pleasure boats .
13 That was full time union work .
14 That and it 's still , that was last Tuesday night .
15 His deliberate act was in fact obstructing the police who were making a lawful arrest , and that was sufficient mens rea .
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