Example sentences of "and it [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was by far the most fertile area I had as yet seen in the Danakil country , and it was dotted with small villages of mat-covered huts . |
| 2 | It started to pour in and it was compared with previous . |
| 3 | Four voices , more or less unbroken , were singing the old Drifter 's classic ‘ Stand By Me ’ , and it was followed by ragged Turkish applause . |
| 4 | Either local cultivators and pastoralists were cleared from the land completely and it was reserved for European immigrants , or in some cases ( like Uganda and larger parts of Tanganyika ) local cultivators were encouraged , or forced , to grow crops for sale either as export crops or as food crops to feed the mining workforces in southern Africa ( for longer accounts of the processes of settler immigration and colonial policies , see Rodney 1972 ; Palmer & Parsons 1977 ) . |
| 5 | By 1886 La Chapelle covered 60 hectares of land , and it was lit by electric light from 1877 . |
| 6 | It rose higher than the surrounding buildings and it was lit by clerestory windows below roof level . |
| 7 | The cake was fully eighteen inches in diameter and it was covered with dark-brown chocolate icing . |
| 8 | It stood out , jagged and broken like a decaying tooth , and it was covered with pale pink roses . |
| 9 | It was called the ‘ Scottish Enlightenment ’ , and it was fuelled by great minds and hearts . |
| 10 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 11 | Possibly the deaths of the Chancellor and the Treasurer undermined the confidence of the King 's surviving ministers , and it was left to other loyalists to act on their own initiative . |
| 12 | And it was coupled with devastating figures showing Britain had plunged deeper into recession . |
| 13 | Now its innocence had vanished , and it was thronged with worldly-wise urban people intent upon sophisticated urban undertakings . |
| 14 | 19E was delicensed on 17 February , but instead of being put into store like the others , it was painted plain red and fitted with primitive snow brooms , which were no more than boards with bristles attached , fitted in place of the lifeguard gates and it was used for sweeping snow in the Croydon area until 31 March 1937 . |
| 15 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 16 | Both accounts also demonstrate that as soon as this new configuration was established , Oppenheimer described it as ‘ technically so sweet ’ , and it was translated into practical terms in under two years , for the November 1952 ‘ MIKE ’ test . |
| 17 | This result came as a complete surprise to me and everyone else , and it was greeted with general disbelief . |
| 18 | The curtains were drawn and it was crowded with heavy brown furniture . |