Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a strong sense of shared identity , had been trained together , and were strongly linked by kinship ties . |
| 2 | A total of seven mineshafts were located along the route and were either consolidated by grout injection or capped at rockhead . |
| 3 | any of his books were translated into foreign languages and were avidly read by Christians on the Continent . |
| 4 | Justice was rightly done , however , when they lost the war and were again humiliated at Wembley in 1966 . |
| 5 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 6 | In December 1942 an Inspectorate of Eastern Troops was set up to supervise the formation and training of the proliferating military units ; but each was subordinated to a German unit ; and although an officer 's academy was established at Mariumpol , Lithuania ( later Conflans , France ) , the units were never assembled into tactical formations , and were largely posted on occupation duties to Western and Southern Europe . |
| 7 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 8 | Trebuchets had a long range , and were generally constructed on site . |
| 9 | The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events . |
| 10 | They had semi-circular arched heads and were generally filled with alabaster or marble sheets or , sometimes , glass . |
| 11 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 12 | These six-sided bricks , each facet displaying part of a printed map , when correctly positioned display six maps by W. and A. K. Johnston , including England , Scotland , Europe and the World , and were neatly boxed as part of the original product . |
| 13 | Documents supplied to Congress on the eve of the summit initially failed to provide a clear picture , however , and were privately described by US officials as " ambiguous " . |
| 14 | Sheep were widespread and were particularly marked in Wales where two of the three areas had all farms involved in sheep . |
| 15 | It is said that invoices were raised against Wessex on behalf of Abbey and that when payment was received by Abbey the moneys were diverted by Mr. Tully and others and were partly dissipated in bribes and partly disguised and concealed in various bank accounts and other havens . |
| 16 | Capital Radio offered free Music Box equipment to the first one thousand callers , and were also inundated with calls . |
| 17 | The only people in whose company she would sit were those who came to Sunday lunch and were also waiting for Montaine 's return . |
| 18 | The burghers of Lichfield are a cultured and discerning lot , and were clearly charmed by guest speakers Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington , who could hardly have come from more different writing genres . |
| 19 | The epidemics of the mid-century began around 1840 , and were probably transmitted by animals imported from India to transport goods to and from the early coffee plantations . |
| 20 | All of the Ea transgenic mouse strains contained intact copies of the transgene construct , as shown by Southern blot analysis ( data not shown , see Materials and methods ) , and were probably integrated in tandem . |
| 21 | The manufacture of faience objects was another highly specialized craft closely associated with temple worship ; many of these objects have a religious significance and were probably made for cult use . |
| 22 | They are wooden galleries beneath extended eaves in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century farmhouses , and were probably designed for storage purposes originally , but were undoubtedly used in summer by the womenfolk in their cottage industry of spinning the wool of the local Herdwick sheep with spinning wheel and distaff . |
| 23 | The former are termed ‘ skin disinfectants ’ and were previously known as antiseptics . |
| 24 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 25 | " And were any evicted by force ? " to which the answer was " Yes , on the south side of the parish . " |
| 26 | Paul and Muriel entertained lavishly and were much loved in Venice . |
| 27 | The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism . |
| 28 | Gibraltar and Minorca remained in British hands throughout the war , and were formally transferred to Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 29 | The Bank men , their first-class tickets ensuring a place at the front of the queue for immigration formalities , wasted no time in getting through the airport and were quickly ferried by car along the narrow road into the city . |
| 30 | Oranges were first introduced into Europe by the Arabs and were originally seen as status symbols . |