Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the nature of things , only a tiny minority had the control of , or access to , the press and were thus able to exercise this freedom . |
| 2 | Parents and residents were given the impression that something was going to be done and were very dismayed to find that nothing has been done yet , hence this petition . |
| 3 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
| 4 | Bowie had very heavy touring commitments with his new band Tin Machine , and was n't able to interrupt that . ’ |
| 5 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 6 | Coenwulf now wanted London to supersede both Lichfield and Canterbury as the single metropolitan see of the southern province in accordance with the plan of Pope Gregory I , and was therefore concerned to minimize any argument for more than one archbishopric based on territorial extent ; Pope Leo , on the other hand , was anxious to disassociate the papacy and his predecessor , Hadrian I , from complicity with Offa in acting against Canterbury for so base a reason as Offa 's antagonism to the people of Kent . |