Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 3 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 4 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 5 | Tablets were provided by Merck , Sharp , and Dohme and were kept with the randomisation schedule in the hospital pharmacy . |
| 6 | Returned to office in 1957 and 1961 , he and his party came under severe UK and US pressure and were defeated in the 1964 elections ( the last before independence in 1966 ; see pp. 19841 ; 21428 ) . |
| 7 | Birth weights had been recorded in pounds ( 2.2 lb=1 kg ) and were converted to the nearest gram . |
| 8 | Since the new recruits in the hive had not been tampered with and were stimulated by the light , they misinterpreted the dance of the returning foragers . |
| 9 | She sent the first correct solution selected and knew that the teams this century who appeared in FA Cup finals and were relegated in the same season were Brighton ( 1983 ) , Leicester ( 1969 ) , Manchester City ( 1926 ) and Chelsea ( 1915 ) |
| 10 | Her expression was wistful , reminiscent , as she recalled how , once they had gone up endless stairs and were seated on the hard wooden benches , an attendant had come along and pushed them all closer and closer together so that as many spectators as possible could be packed in . |
| 11 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 12 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 13 | Talks took place on 13th July and were adjourned at the suggestion of the Chairman . |
| 14 | Between 1765 and 1767 these were held at Carlisle House , Soho Square , and were organized by the impresario Teresa Cornelys . |
| 15 | They were given permission and were destroyed as the herd of pigs drowned in the lake . |
| 16 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 17 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 18 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 19 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 20 | Some groups of the dissatisfied were influenced by the Manichaean teachings which came from the east of Europe after the Second Crusade ( 1147 ) and were transmitted along the trade routes to the towns of north Germany and Lombardy . |
| 21 | Both boys faced South Sefton Youth Court in Bootle on Monday and were remanded to the care of Liverpool City Council . |
| 22 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 23 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 24 | These contrasted the Western models with the sorts of restrictions that could and were applied to the media in other political systems : the media were not free to publish , the expression of opinion was controlled , the Party/government could dictate the content of the media , and the essential freedoms associated with the Western models were obviously absent . |
| 25 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 26 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 27 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
| 28 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 29 | The first bogies used at Wolverton were designed after the American model , and were constructed like the underframe then in use , partly of iron and partly of timber . |
| 30 | All these records are twelve inches in diameter and were made by the Gramophone Company of Great Britain between 1920 and 1925 . |