Example sentences of "and [noun] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Great Britain and Ireland was being hammered on this occasion Jane felt so tight and tense at lunchtime on the second day that she asked if she could stand down . |
| 2 | Cos there was Shirley and Jimmy , and Ann and Sarah , and Judith , and Ruth and Christopher , and Christopher was was Christopher nine ? |
| 3 | I had got to the stage with one particular chair when even a mallet and chisel was being limited by the design . |
| 4 | The notebooks show Svidrigailov developing from a minor into a major character while Crime and Punishment was being planned and written , and they show his growth as interdependent with Raskolnikov 's final definition . |
| 5 | But the final straw came when the would-be Biggles discovered his pride and joy was being used by someone he did n't know to smuggle drugs . |
| 6 | I said , and Roy was being rude though cos I said to Roy , I said , have n't you got a glow worm , he said no mine 's got eyes on the end of it ! |
| 7 | In this case , a drama involving the relationship between mind and body was being played out . |
| 8 | Limehouse , he said , was full of politicians and Bow was being yuppified . |
| 9 | The Doctor was using a pocket mirror to see what was going on outside without sticking his head out of the window , Howard was over by a small stove cooking several breakfasts , the hospital staff were milling about seeing to their patients , and Petion was being shaved by an orderly using a piece of broken glass . |
| 10 | Something small and black was being lowered down right by its ear . |
| 11 | The journey took 14 minutes for the four miles , and water was being pumped on the flames two minutes later . |
| 12 | Long ago , when the colony was flourishing and sugar was being shipped in quantities of menhir-shaped loaves to the storerooms and the kitchens and the taverns and the parlours of the capitals of Europe , a French missionary priest , one Père Labat , wrote one of the first comprehensive travel books about the new world of the islands , chronicling the natives and their customs ( as far as he could ) as well as the way of life the settlers had developed , with their fine mansions and wide verandahs , ornamented with brattishings and cool with shutters and fringed jalousies . |
| 13 | I was at school when the announcement that the banks of the River Deben had burst in Debenham and traffic was being halted from leaving Debenham or coming into it . |
| 14 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 15 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 16 | Thus , by the very beginning of 1947 , and well before ‘ containment ’ , the Marshall plan and the Zhdanov doctrine drew the battle lines between Russia and the US in Europe and in general it may be seen that a framework of impressions , intentions , hopes and misunderstandings was being thrown up which would support US policy towards Vietnam for the next 20 years and under whose weight it would ultimately collapse . |
| 17 | Knox had gone into the country to translate the Vulgate into English and Lewis was being prepared by an unseen providence for war work no less surprising . |
| 18 | During 1976 some 200 were sold in this way and pressure was being brought to bear on the company founders to manufacture the completed product . |
| 19 | The next wave of families were gathered in huddles : the next wave of berks , burglars and bunglers was being dredged up from the cells . |
| 20 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 21 | ‘ The question of education and health was being discussed in the run up to the Edinburgh Summit and at the summit , ’ said Claridge . |
| 22 | A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet . |
| 23 | Then , to their relief , on 26 February , Thurot sailed off , having heard that a force of several thousand regulars and volunteers was being got together to attack him . |
| 24 | He was very taken with organisation in the corporate world and MainMan was being fashioned after a large corporation although in its beginning , it was anything but that . |
| 25 | The smoke and steam was being sucked from the wreck by the storm wind anyway , and as it cleared Duvall suddenly shrank back from the shattered car window . |
| 26 | In Greece , which had sent a frigate to the Gulf , there was concern that the balance of US military aid to Greece and Turkey was being upset as a result of increased US support for Turkey in the Gulf war . |
| 27 | This time last year we were very apprehensive about entering a year when so much doom and gloom was being talked about . |
| 28 | I remained seated on my mule , uncomfortably aware that my every gesture and expression was being carefully observed . |
| 29 | In other words , we can write : It is preferable ( and usual ) to measure the value of total output at factor cost rather than in market prices , otherwise an increase in indirect taxation or a reduction in subsidies would have the effect of raising the estimate of total output even when no greater quantity of goods and services was being produced . |
| 30 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |