Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices were on the rise , having trebled in 12 months , and were now entirely the province of the producer-country governments . |
| 2 | The coastal tribe probably called itself the Regini ( ‘ The Proud Ones ’ , but later Romanized to the Regni ) , with Bosham Harbour as its chief port , and was also probably an ally of Rome . |
| 3 | The NKLP 'S sister party in the south , the SKLP , had suffered serious reverses in 1949 at the hands of the Rhee government and was no longer the force it had once been . |
| 4 | Also if the destructiveness of warfare was declining , militarism was increasing , and was indeed largely a creation of this period . |
| 5 | This is particularly evident in the work of Allen Tate , who like Ransom was a poet as well as a critic , and was certainly not a scholar of the traditional type . |
| 6 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 7 | ( The Love Feast was an early Methodist institution which had some elements in common with the Communion service but did not set to duplicate it and was certainly not an attempt to replace it . |
| 8 | Radiometric and spectrometric investigations of such waves indicated that the Cytherean source region was at a temperature of about 670 K. Moreover , radio waves at such wavelengths can readily traverse clouds and atmospheric gases and it was readily established that the Cytherean source region lay well below the cloud tops and was very probably the surface of Venus . |
| 9 | This was an attractive scheme , not least because both the pupil-teacher and the headmaster or headmistress were paid for their trouble , and was very probably the route which Benjamin James followed . |
| 10 | It was constructed by Telford ( q.v. ) in 1796 to carry the Shrewsbury Canal over the River Tern , and was very much a piece of engineering experiment at the time , to be carried to glorious triumph in the simultaneous building of the great aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v . ) . |
| 11 | Strong and brave — his 110 against Lillee and Thomson on an uneven Brisbane pitch in 1974–5 was an innings of real courage — he loved to drive off the front foot , could hit the ball vast distances and was very much a crowd-pleaser . |
| 12 | ‘ The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . ’ |
| 13 | The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . |
| 14 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 15 | Somehow , step by precarious step , I had been drawn over the invisible divide and was now truly a part of the family hareem . |
| 16 | Now , it was renamed Deseret , and was only technically a part of the United States of America . |
| 17 | Raglan Castle belongs mainly to the 15th century and was as much a product of social grandeur , as it was military necessity . |
| 18 | Coopers deplores what has occurred and was as much the victim as everyone else ’ . |