Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Tutilo was indeed a brother , and at large that night , and expected to be upon that path . |
| 2 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 3 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 4 | On that basis , Mr Williamson , and on the basis that you propose and acknowledge others do not accept that this new settlement should at least in this plan period be for about fourteen hundred dwellings , what level of employment land provision can be taken out of the Greater York figure and assumed to be in the new settlement ? |
| 5 | PC John Timms , the local constable , was contacted and told to be on the look-out . |
| 6 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 7 | They were all grins and seemed to be on top of the world . |
| 8 | Maidstone had the best of the early exchanges but the Seasiders were under little real threat and seemed to be on course for at least a draw . |
| 9 | Claire 's eight-week-old baby , Jamie , was apparently healthy but cried a lot of the time , and seemed to be in pain . |
| 10 | Holyhead mayor Tom Ross added : ‘ He was very happy and seemed to be in good spirits . |
| 11 | Woil stared round at him and seemed to be in a state of shock . |
| 12 | He was facing the window and seemed to be in a state of dreamy somnolence . |
| 13 | The Monktonhall miners have secured a number of lucrative deals , including one with ScottishPower which is for five years and believed to be worth £10 million . |
| 14 | Sotheby 's has abandoned a two-year struggle to sell the Sevso Treasure of late Roman silver ( see The Art Newspaper , No.11 , October 1991 , p.1 ) belonging to the Marquess of Northampton Settlement and estimated to be worth £40 million . |
| 15 | So we arranged the trip accordingly and came to be with you . |
| 16 | The cottage belonged to friends , he said , but they were diplomats and happened to be in Syria . |
| 17 | At their wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve , 1873 , John took embarrassing matters into his own hands and nominated a Thomas Tiller as his father and claimed to be of full age . |
| 18 | The sequences around both the initiation and termination regions of each clone was determined by the di-deoxy method and confirmed to be in frame with the N-terminal 6-His sequence of pET15b . |
| 19 | McGuinness is more hard-line than Adams and reckoned to be in closer touch with the mood of die-hard republicans . |
| 20 | He considered good personal relationships between teacher and taught to be of paramount importance : the core , around which all other aspects of Basil 's teaching philosophy fitted into place . |
| 21 | Murphy knocked in a break of 136 and looked to be on target for the £1000 prize which goes to the highest break in the Blackpool stage of the tournament . |
| 22 | Kernaghan suffered the agony or relegation and looked to be on the way out of Ayresome Park when he joined Charlton Athletic on loan last season . |
| 23 | The 23-year-old Nortumbrian went off hard with South Shields Harrier Dave Beris and looked to be on record-breaking pace . |
| 24 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 25 | She was nervous of all Men , and preferred to be with the women of the Court . |
| 26 | The other headmen indicated their agreement by attending a feast given by the chief , though the women of the village ‘ cried , wrung their hands , tore their hair , and appeared to be in the utmost distress ’ , at the notion of this fundamental change to tribal life . |
| 27 | Throughout his remand and trial he denied that he had injured her and appeared to be in a fantasy world , convinced of his own merits and powers . |
| 28 | The compound was tried clinically , and proved to be of considerable benefit to a number of patients , but Swedish physicians were somewhat sceptical . |
| 29 | Several , especially those with relatively hidden disabilities , were uncertain of the wisdom of this and spoke of being in a dilemma over the issue . |
| 30 | Today , the Daily Mirror reveals the contents of a letter written on what appears to be Buckingham Palace notepaper and said to be from one official to another . |