Example sentences of "and [adj] [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have to piss in the backseat , and that was imported Argentine leather hand-tooled by a specialist flown in from Tijuana . |
| 2 | Fifteen farms were visited , four of these were farmed full-time and eleven were farmed part-time . |
| 3 | Slater and Fisher found that 4.1 items were consulted and 2.4 were considered useful . |
| 4 | Some of the males were injected with morphine for a few days and some were given other drugs . |
| 5 | Indeed many of the disagreements of the following years seem to be associated with cities which had once been held by Charibert , and this was to hold true even after the murder of Sigibert , since lands which he had acquired in 567 became bones of contention between his son , Childebert II , and Guntram . |
| 6 | In 1991 we achieved a combined profit of £540,500 ( although down significantly from that of £1 million in 1990 ) and this was made possible without any contribution by RIBA Magazines Ltd. which broke-even . |
| 7 | One reason , which Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has mentioned , was the protection of American lives , and another was to prevent 'sensitive military and intelligence equipment form falling into unfriendly hands " . |
| 8 | The Final report ( Cmd. 6876 ) was published in July , dealing with various planning principles , including the question of size : a population of between 30,000 and 50,000 was thought desirable . |
| 9 | Nineteen farms were visited of which thirteen were farmed full-time and six were farmed part-time . |
| 10 | He was now on to the mid-irons and these were flying high and true . |
| 11 | And these were made possible by the new technical processes ( amplified sound , radio transmission of styles across social boundaries , studio instead of written composition , and so on ) . |
| 12 | And these were piled high with items which had probably been all very well in their day . |
| 13 | Determination alone does not get you through life , and these were becoming hard times for me . |
| 14 | A group of antigens capable of stimulating a strong mixed lymphocyte reaction between mice of the same MHC haplotype was recognised some time ago , and these were termed minor lymphocyte stimulating ( Mls ) determinants . |
| 15 | JACKIE NEWTON spent a night at the camp to find out why Women Against Pit Closures Billy was among six miners who refused to sign on Friday , and all were made redundant on Monday . |
| 16 | Her London home was used as a hostel by the Scottish rank and file who needed a bed in the capital as they were posted from one place to another , and all were made welcome . |
| 17 | The women reported other significant changes in their lives — by the end of the sessions , none of them were intentionally depriving themselves of food and all were eating regular meals . |
| 18 | Some had written letters to pop stars or relatives , others had written stories and all were doing elementary arithmetic . |
| 19 | So , year after year , abnormal influences jostled with the normal and all were considered normal . |
| 20 | Nineteen farms were visited , five were farmed full-time and fourteen were farmed part-time . |
| 21 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 22 | A large proportion of the women in the column were pregnant , and many were carrying young babies in their arms . |
| 23 | Thus the industry which decentralized from central region to periphery in the 1960s and '70s was using locational change , within the context of existing forms of uneven development , to improve its competitive position . |
| 24 | All told , three people died and twenty-three were left homeless . |
| 25 | More than 5,000 people were believed to have been killed , most of them in the town of Ormoc , and 120,000 were left homeless , with thousands more still missing and presumed dead . |
| 26 | In 1990 , the latest figures , eight teenagers aged between 14 and 16 were found guilty of murder . |
| 27 | Throughout Lithuania Jan. 14 and 15 were declared national days of mourning . |
| 28 | At least four of the Moroccans drowned and 15 were reported missing . |
| 29 | In April last year the company went out of business and Sturdy was declared bankrupt . |
| 30 | For example , in 1970 there were 15,623 occasions on which British women aged between seventeen and twenty were found guilty in court . |