Example sentences of "and was [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ But Aunt Louise had closed her eyes and was pretending to be asleep . |
| 2 | Owen 's own first chosen vehicle , the co-operative community , had become an irrelevance and was seen to be impracticable . |
| 3 | Later in the race McCallen fell off at Church Corner , Portrush , but was unhurt and was hoping to be able to take part in the opening Superbike race which followed the 250cc . |
| 4 | James Winterbourne , actor , had discarded his red felt trilby and had shaved off the stubble and was drifting around being welcoming in his role as a member of the Jockey Club . |
| 5 | Using a marker perfusion technique , however , the uptake of taurocholate and glycocholate was measured in three infants with cystic fibrosis and was noted to be similar to control subjects . |
| 6 | Erm , if you were diagnosed as having cancer , and was intending to be dead in nine months , what would your reaction be to that ? |
| 7 | Speaker 12 used Creole syntax and phonology and was judged to be black by the majority of respondents , just as they had judged Speaker 2 ( = 11 ) to be black in her " Creole " guise . |
| 8 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 9 | In Yuill v Wilson [ 1979 ] STC 486 ( CA ) ; [ 1980 ] STC 460 ( HL ) , the UK resident taxpayer provided two overseas companies , with which he was connected , with the opportunity of realising a gain and was held to be assessable on the gain . |
| 10 | She had two young children and was going to be thirty she felt the responsibility of having to forget her fantasy life as her Frenchman 's cabin boy . |
| 11 | Although is mother 's house had always been spotless , and was considered to be one of the most exclusive brothels in the red-light district , it too had managed to capture some of the essence of the tenements , a lingering miasma that no matter how often the skivvies scrubbed and washed the floors and walls still managed to seep into the house . |
| 12 | The National Materials Handling Centre , with its interest in sustaining national expertise and development in warehouse design , decided to look at the factors restricting advances in the building of automatic warehouses in the United Kingdom and one which emerged and was considered to be worthy of further enquiry was the attention being paid to the problems of fire in high-bay warehouses . |
| 13 | Thomas Fuller Bacon was born in Stamford in 1824 and was considered to be stubborn , selfish and unsociable as a child . |
| 14 | In other contexts the courts have taken a broad , purposive approach to the interpretation of the 1977 Act ; thus in Smith v Eric S Bush ; Harris v Wyre Forest DC [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords held that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report , which purported to prevent the surveyor owing a duty of care to the recipient of the report , was subject to s2 of the Act and was required to be reasonable . |
| 15 | She was a mantri , a person who knew certain magic incantations , and was reputed to be able to cure sick animals . |