Example sentences of "and [adv] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking , since M s fixed P , and since was determined at its full employment value , , through the forces of competition in the labour market , the equilibrium value of W could be ascertained . |
| 2 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 3 | The nadir of transient UOS relaxation swas the most clearcut point and so was related to the time of onset of the common cavity episode to the nearest second . |
| 4 | Although Mr Llambias is a member of the Disciplinary Committee , he had not been selected as a member of the disciplinary panel and so was prevented by the committee 's byelaws from attending . |
| 5 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 6 | Nicola had no clean works — i.e. a fresh hypodermic ( the AIDS scare has a lot to answer for ) — and so was staying on the dope : ‘ stay low ’ coming from one of the government 's laughably ineffective drink/driving campaigns . |
| 7 | Sibylle herself was only eight when Hitler came to power , and so was exposed to the intrusive influences of the Nazi state during her most formative years . |
| 8 | The innermost southern shore of the peninsula had been the chosen land of Pythagoras , your namesake , perhaps your ancestor , the apostle of eternal return : it was in the market square at Crotone on the Gulf of Taranto south of Riba that he exposed his thigh and showed that it was golden , and so was honoured by the inhabitants as a special favourite of the gods , quasi-divine himself . |
| 9 | Because she rolled over as she fell , the baby landed on top of her and so was cushioned from any physical harm . |
| 10 | This enabled car 11 to be extracted for a farewell tour in January 1963 , but it never went back , and so was preserved for posterity . |
| 11 | I am not aware of the details but the compulsory incident reporting system was found to be wanting and so was changed to a voluntary one . |
| 12 | However , a devaluation of the domestic currency came to be regarded almost as a sign of failure by countries facing permanent imbalance , and so was avoided for as long as possible . |
| 13 | Moreover , Taylor J felt that J 's dyslexia was a ‘ disability ’ and thus was covered by the second definition of learning difficulty ( above ) . |
| 14 | The information published was assembled from Gloucester Warwickshire Railway release incorporating ‘ The Cornishman ’ and thus was published in good faith . |
| 15 | By the Ptolemaic Period he had become a god of healing and thus was associated with Imhotep in the Theban temples of Deir el-Medina and Deir el-Bahri . |
| 16 | In minutes he was driving , and soon was bursting into Doyle 's flat , breathless from running up the stairs . |
| 17 | In 1901 , almost 60 per cent of the male population of England and Wales aged 65 and over was recorded in the census as occupied ; the corresponding figure for women was 13.4 per cent . |
| 18 | A random sample of 4007 adults ( 1883 men ) aged 30 and over was interviewed in their own homes at geographically stratified sampling points throughout Great Britain . |
| 19 | The priceless trophy was lodged in the vault of a local bank for safe-keeping , a few years later was handed over to Kelvingrove Museum , Glasgow , and finally was given to The Royal Company of Archers . |
| 20 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 21 | As Ahlquist wrote later , ‘ The original paper was rejected by the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics , was loser in the Abel Award competition , and finally was published in the American Journal of Physiology due to my personal friendship with a great physiologist , W. F. Hamilton ’ . |
| 22 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 23 | Commenced in 1898 the line took three years to build and finally was opened in May 1901 . |
| 24 | Further drilling and exploration both on land and offshore was planned by other companies . |
| 25 | He was arrested and tortured in German and Italian prisons , and once was confined in a bottle-dungeon in which he could neither sit nor stand up . |
| 26 | Louise was the 1,000th participant in a year in the Enterprise Action Programme run by Cleveland county council and yesterday was presented with a personal organiser by council chairman Ted Wood . |
| 27 | Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's . |
| 28 | The PLO 's triumph both in the Arab arena and internationally was underestimated by Jordan and by Israel , which called for new municipal elections in 1976 . |
| 29 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 30 | Another perspective on sexuality both gay and straight was presented by Constantine Giannaris in ‘ North Of Vortex ’ . |