Example sentences of "and [conj] it was [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bomb had a lengthy fuse attached to it , and when it was discovered by one of the schoolboys , the fuse was burnt almost up to the bomb . |
| 6 | He seeks to restore the status quo as it was between July 1990 and September 1991 and as it was confirmed by the Australian court in the divorce proceedings . |
| 7 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |