Example sentences of "and was [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zia assumed the presidency in September 1978 and was confirmed in this office ( by referendum ) in December 1984 for a five-year term beginning in March 1985 . |
| 2 | The reserve goalkeeper held on to the place for four months , and was selected for several weeks after Grobbelaar returned to action with the reserves . |
| 3 | The reserve goalkeeper held on to the place for four months , and was selected for several weeks after Grobbelaar returned to action with the reserves . |
| 4 | Although Sewell failed to secure appointment as Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon on Coleman 's death , he was veterinary surgeon to the London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers from July 1805 and was presented as such at one of Prince Albert 's levees in 1850 . |
| 5 | King James was interested in medicine and was absorbed in all aspects of the study of physic and the human body . ’ |
| 6 | He was not scholastically talented , and was said by some of his students to be a poor lecturer : ‘ Never was there a more irregular course of lectures , so that we scarcely knew what he was talking about ’ . |
| 7 | Chief executive Gerald Ratner stood down as chairman last week , and was replaced by former Coats Viyella deputy chairman Jim McAdam . |
| 8 | This road was subsequently abandoned , being partly submerged by the new Loch Loyne reservoir , and was replaced by another constructed some miles to the east . |
| 9 | Qaim Ali Shah resigned as Chief Minister of Sind province on Feb. 25 and was replaced by another PPP member , Aftab Shahban Mirani . |
| 10 | I know , I , that and I never said anything about it , but there was many a pheasant which got too close to a tent , wound up in the pot and was cooked by these fellas on these stoves . |
| 11 | He did n't like the microphone and had to be cajoled into using it , he stalked up and down the front of the hall quoting from cuttings on the Vietnam War , and was heard by few . |
| 12 | People who demanded miracles to prove his divine mission were refused : his power came from the presence of the Father and was discerned by those ‘ with ears to hear ’ . |
| 13 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 14 | Firstly , H pylori with homogeneously distributed chromatinic and cytoplasmic content within the bacterial body ( Fig 1 ) , which was associated with all the patterns of epithelial state and was seen in all the examined ultrastructural sections ; this pattern , however , was prominent in the first pattern of contact with gastric epithelium presenting normal looking epithelial cells . |
| 15 | The 1840 Treaty , signed between the British Crown and the Maori chiefs , marked the formal establishment of British sovereignty over New Zealand , and was seen by many modern Maoris ( who comprised more than 10 per cent of the current population of 3,200,000 ) as the symbolic beginning of a process whereby their culture and status had been systematically undermined . |
| 16 | I went to Vienna and asked these questions and was answered in this evasive manner . |
| 17 | A distant clock in Maryhill to his left began to chime and was answered by another , far off in Springburn away beyond the football ground and the timber basin . |
| 18 | Two miles away , at Lulling Station , a train hooted , and from Lulling Woods , in the valley on his right , an owl quavered and was answered by another . |
| 19 | An owl hooted nearby , and was answered by another farther away . |
| 20 | A dog barked and was answered by another . |
| 21 | The prototype , Skyship 500 ( New Scientist , 2 September , p 616 ) is well on the way to getting a full certificate of airworthiness , and was demonstrated at this year 's Farnborough airshow . |
| 22 | Beauty and the Beast proved highly popular and was given with many casts during later seasons ; it has also been revived for several other companies , with various designers . |
| 23 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 24 | By 3pm Dez had washed 39 cars , mostly Jaguars , Mercedes , Porsches and even a couple of Rolls Royces , plus a few Ford Escorts and other smaller cars , and was appealing for more cars ! . |
| 25 | This event was the fourth major Living History Exhibition run by the SWSHAS and was visited by some 300 children and 150 adults . |
| 26 | This involved at least 1000 colliery and ‘ temporary ’ dwellings and was achieved without any of the controversy associated with the Category D policy in County Durham ( see Blackman , 1987 ) , largely because residents got good modern dwellings close to their original homes . |
| 27 | A British doctor , Pauline Cutting , had returned home to a heroine 's welcome and was featured on several front pages . |
| 28 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 29 | The Prince felt he was in the company of someone very special , took great delight in time spent talking to him , and was inspired by all that he heard . |
| 30 | and was charged with such brightness |