Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [was/were] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne wept for him and for Kathleen , who must be told the news , and decided that she must definitely find out where Kathleen was and visit her . |
| 2 | If you can show me plainly where Tutilo was until past that hour , we may strike him from the roll and forget him . ’ |
| 3 | But he had no precise idea where Adam was and he did not think Adam 's travel agent ( a personal friend of the young Verne-Smiths ) would tell him . |
| 4 | Where Baby was and all . ’ |
| 5 | Before the Act , there was some doubt as to whether or not a person had to be aware that his conduct or language was or might be regarded as being threatening , abusive or insulting . |
| 6 | You are not likely to shake the beliefs of ex-colonials by arguing that racism was and still is ‘ functional ’ to their way of life ! |
| 7 | Although gossip was that Churchill had been tempted , given the mighty scale of Germany 's achievements in so short a time , the iron returned to his soul and he steamrollered furiously through his doubting Cabinet . |
| 8 | In the first programme , we visited Egypt , Pompeii , the Tivoli , glimpsed Central Park ( are muggers seeking Adam ? ) , and our own Kew en route to establishing that gardens were and are a universal obsession . |
| 9 | Therefore , at this stage , Soviet policy towards Castro was related to this broad objective and there is no indication that Cuba was as yet regarded as having the priority status that it later commanded . |
| 10 | As to the first of Mr. Collins ' propositions , I have no doubt that Lautro was and is obliged to exercise its powers fairly . |
| 11 | He shot a 67 and nobody knew how good that round was because they were all talking about Greg 's 63 . |
| 12 | In fact , the reason they had never become anything more serious than fumbles was because , compared with Georg , the boys seemed very young and silly . |
| 13 | Bede has much to say about Sigeberht 's Christian patronage within his kingdom ( HE 111 , 18 ) but nothing of Ecgric 's , and the probability is that Ecgric was and remained a pagan . |
| 14 | The majority view was that Britain was and would remain a great power , giving the world leadership based on her experience over the centuries rather than on the depth of her pocket . |
| 15 | It claimed that bull-running was and warned that |
| 16 | As such that undertaking was as obnoxious as if it had been contained in the articles of association , and was therefore unenforceable , being contrary to Art 131 of The Companies ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 . |
| 17 | She held out hope and it was taken eagerly and when with each letter the hope waned she was ready to support Mrs Browning 's own faith that death was but an extension of life and not to be feared . |
| 18 | Ickx was leading , Peterson ( in a March ) behind him and Regazzoni was as usual making life difficult for those behind him . |
| 19 | Such examples apart , a consequence of the decline of cottage spinning and knitting was that it removed the earnings of children as well as of grown women . |
| 20 | What was clear from my own research and experience was that all of these ‘ crazes ’ or student ‘ tides ’ , along with a few others , existed side by side in 1988 . |
| 21 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 22 | When he next turned his attention to the matter , The Times leader writer had to explain to his readers that the law of debtor and creditor was as yet only in a transitional state and that a very unsatisfactory one . |
| 23 | She had never known what love and tenderness were until she met her Aunty Lizzie , and she knew that no one in the world would ever love her like that woman did ; nor would she love anyone else . |
| 24 | In many ways the achievement of Young and Helmholtz was that they showed , in principle , that colour vision would be possible with only three receptors , providing those receptors were most sensitive to the right colours . |
| 25 | In a study of male British doctors [ 4 ] , deaths from lung cancer in smokers and non-smokers were as follows : |
| 26 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 27 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 28 | Results of the Dunhill Amateur Masters Winter Merit Tournament run between October and February were as follows : 1st , Mrs. V. Derwig ( 36 points ) ; 2nd , Mrs. M. Brown ( 32 ) . |
| 29 | One big advantage of self-sufficiency in food and clothing was that the demand on the public purse was much reduced . |
| 30 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |