Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell would never rest until she could get closer to confirm her worst suspicions , and paradoxically it was the woman in her that provided the intensity of emotion that would let nothing stand in her way . |
| 2 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 3 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 4 | ‘ And besides it was a shock to the system — I really believed you capable of all those awful ideas ! ’ |
| 5 | You were n't even born when it folded — and besides it was an English magazine . ’ |
| 6 | As I looked closer they began to open their wings , and suddenly it was a though purple brooches had been pinned about the bracken to catch the sunlight . |
| 7 | And suddenly there was a rampant little queen dying to violate everything you 've thought of as normal ? ’ |
| 8 | Its crassness repelled her but it slid inside her because she recognized it as her name and suddenly there was a dark pit , a chasm , a void , and the gravity of being dragged her down into the dark heart of weight . |
| 9 | He showed both boys how to lift the sorrel 's hoof between their knees , and suddenly there was a line of small boys at his side , all waiting hopefully for a turn . |
| 10 | The sky was over cast and suddenly there was a violent thunder storm . |
| 11 | They had drapes up , so I could n't see anything gory , and Bill was there , and suddenly there was a wail … ’ |
| 12 | And suddenly there was a darkness about his demeanour . |
| 13 | Soon cool air began to reach me , and suddenly there was the sea . |
| 14 | And suddenly he was a duiker with an owner , and a name — Pula . |
| 15 | And so what was the bond between the two men ? |
| 16 | And so what was the job found ? |
| 17 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 18 | It was like no other protein that anyone had described before , and so there was no clue to its function . |
| 19 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) taking a suspect to the parade seemed to the court to be outside the provisions for the administration of the parade itself and so there was no breach of the Code . |
| 21 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 22 | And so there was no terrible scandal in the royal families of Europe . |
| 23 | However , it must be recognised that such claims for compensation would involve an extension of Francovich , both because that was a case of complete non-implementation , not just defective implementation , and because the UK government could argue that its implementation of the Directive in 1981 was done on the basis of its good faith understanding of what European law then required and so there was no element of fault in its decision-making at that time . |
| 24 | No b erm we did n't encounter er anyone and so there was no need to give the er warning . |
| 25 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 26 | Fewer goods were bought or sold , and so there was a surplus of ships for trading . |
| 27 | And so there was a second lot of market research commissioned from a different organisation , and they came up with an even better picture ! |
| 28 | These divisions were reflected in the constituencies and so there was a breakdown in party discipline and a resurgence of freedom of action among MPs . |
| 29 | Er , sometimes it 's for tax reasons , sometimes it 's for er , for , for , for erm , er , reasons such as last year when er , we wrote down our , our stake by some seventy one million erm , it was because at that point the financing for B Sky B was not yet er , at all clear because the shareholders had been unable to agree at that point erm , that they would guarantee the two hundred or so million that er , needed to go in before the er , project became successful and so there was a genuine doubt on the financing . |
| 30 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |