Example sentences of "and [conj] it was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 2 | To check for a developmental role for these hypersensitive sites , the presence of the transgene was tested in newborn mice and where it was shown to be expressed ( data not shown ) . |
| 3 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | At the same time a large majority of voters thought that the press was biased , and that it was biased towards the Conservatives , against Labour , and against the Alliance . |
| 5 | Dr Mumby said that the letter had been stolen and was therefore inadmissible , and that it was written in jest . |
| 6 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 7 | She held firm because she knew that the road to compromise was without signposts , that the possibilities for getting lost were manifold and that it was paved with flawed imitations of the truth . |
| 8 | I thought — it was silly I know , but I thought perhaps seeing Aubrey had reminded you of Madeleine and that it was going to be as awful as it was when you came back from England after that holiday . |
| 9 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 10 | I felt very positive about it and that it was coming out the way we hoped it would . |
| 11 | Is he aware of the concern expressed by Amnesty International and the United Nations committee on torture , and that it was recommended by Lord Colville , the Government 's own adviser , and by the independent police complaints body and the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights ? |
| 12 | He also rejected arguments that the transcript did not fall within the term ‘ documents ’ in s 2(3) of the 1987 Act and that it was protected from disclosure by legal professional privilege . |
| 13 | During the 1880s and 1890s populist economists insisted that Russian capitalism was an artificial product of state policy , and that it was doomed by the weakness of the domestic market and its inability to compete abroad . |
| 14 | This has led to speculations that life may have originated in the depths of space and that it was brought to the Earth by meteorites . |
| 15 | Rostovtzeff identified the head he thought had been the top of this object as that of Commodus , and that it was associated with the cult of Commodus-Hercules . |
| 16 | What The Stones and The Animals and all the great bands that I grew up with did was to take black music , and although it was played by white kids , they did n't change the nature of the beast , and it worked . |
| 17 | Two years later , after a command performance at Windsor Castle , he disbanded it , and although it was resuscitated at public request , and attracted stars like ( Sir ) Charles Santley [ q.v. ] , it finally expired in 1887 . |
| 18 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 19 | The Rent and Mortgage Restriction Act , 1915 , fixed rents at the levels obtaining in 1914 , and although it was introduced as a wartime emergency measure , it became politically impossible to repeal after hostilities ceased . |
| 20 | ‘ Then , supposing the sherry was poisoned , and supposing it was aimed at you , then it could only have been put there by someone who did n't know your habits ? ’ |
| 21 | ( Prove you did n't print that , and if it was said of someone else , that you were n't tacitly implying it of me ) |
| 22 | As children with diffuse chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction frequently vomit , we have investigated gastric electrical control activity as detected by the non-invasive technique of surface electrogastrography in the fasting state in such children to determine if persistently abnormal electrical control activity was present , and if it was related to the underlying pathology of enteric nerves and muscle coats . |
| 23 | Then there was the printing works : it had kept pace with the changing times and if it was put on the market there would be plenty of interest . |
| 24 | and if it was forced upon them that this land 's going to have to be put into a , a kind of block |
| 25 | This association was not observed in women , and because it was noted in an unplanned subgroup analysis the authors urged that the finding should be interpreted cautiously . |
| 26 | and because it was classed as a professional foul Aizelwood was sent off … |
| 27 | By the second day of the exhibition , and before it was opened to the general public , he had appointed the judges . |
| 28 | After anxiety expressed by foreign bankers over the uncertain legal status of the foreign debt of the four existing concerns under the new structure , and after it was confirmed on July 20 that a fifth state holding company , Efim , had unilaterally declared a moratorium on its debts , of which over a quarter was owed to foreign banks , for up to two years , the government announced on July 23 that the companies , IRI , ENI , ENEL and INA , which had all on July 13 become joint stock companies , would remain under Treasury control . |
| 29 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 30 | HERE comes summer … and whether it was boating in Sefton Park , inset , or chasing a running prize , it all added to a warm day in the sunshine yesterday . |