Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] out and the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 2 | The effect is as if a central strip were cut out and the remaining top and bottom rectangles rejoined . |
| 3 | The ease with which this theft was carried out and the incompetent way in which it was investigated makes one wonder if America is not secretly pleased that Israel has become a nuclear power in the Middle East so that it can act as tripwire in any conflict . |
| 4 | Well , of course , the whole plot was found out and the unhappy doctor drawn and quartered or whatever . |
| 5 | The crime was brought out and the chief criminal was prosecuted and convicted , all within a space of three years . |