Example sentences of "and was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 2 | Fluid was present in both ears at three examinations over three months and was confirmed by a validated otoscopist and by tympanometry . |
| 3 | This was the view taken in Nutricia v Zuid-Hollandse Conservenfabriek ( OJL 376/22 ) and was confirmed by the European Court of Justice in Remia & Nutricia v Commission ( Case 42/84 [ 1987 ] 1 CMLR 1 ) . |
| 4 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 5 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 6 | The paper is titled ‘ Adhesion and Detachment of The Toe Pads of Tree Frogs ’ and was selected by a prominent group of twenty professional biologists for publication in The Journal of Experimental Biology . |
| 7 | The Temple of Saturn was an early building but was reconstructed in the 4th century A.D. It was large , on a lofty podium , and was fronted by a six-columned Ionic portico in grey granite . |
| 8 | Similarly , Amiel de Baux held office under the French crown , and was serving in the royal army when it entered Aquitaine in 1371 . |
| 9 | Dr. Peter Clough , Research Fellow in the Division of Education , completed his Ph.D thesis on the phenomenology of classroom talk in 1983 , and was appointed on a part-time lecturer in Division , 1983–5 . |
| 10 | He commanded a hired merchantman in the summer of 1650 , serving under his brother , and was appointed to a fourth-rate warship for the following winter guard . |
| 11 | Meanwhile he continued also to operate as a moneylender , advancing large sums on bond during these same decades , and was appointed to a royal commission on the cloth trade in the late 1630s . |
| 12 | He received an honorary DCL ( Durham ) in 1908 , was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1909 , was knighted for his Royal Society work in 1912 , and was appointed to the premier diocesan chancellorship , London , in the same year . |
| 13 | Born in 1948 , Brendan O'Neill was appointed managing director of Guinness Brewing Worldwide in February 1993 , and was appointed to the main board in April 1993 . |
| 14 | After working in Armagh he became Recorder of Belfast in 1982 and was appointed to the High Court two years later . |
| 15 | At a farewell party held in his honour , Terry Williams received various mementos from friends and colleagues and was presented with a compact disc player by P&O Group Treasurer , John Beverton . |
| 16 | By 1983 , Zimbabwe had approached the IMF and was presented with the standard package of reform measures , but by 1984 had reached a parting of the ways with the Fund . |
| 17 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 18 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 19 | As a 17-year-old , Daniel was diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer and was treated at the Royal Marsden . |
| 20 | He was ill at ease with the gentleman scientists of his day and was treated as a mere technician by many . |
| 21 | She came second in a women 's international free-for-all at the 1933 Chicago races , at 189mph , but while leading in the Phillips Trophy race at the same meeting lost fabric off a wing and was killed in the subsequent crash . |
| 22 | A small crowd gathered in the street and was watching through the shattered window . |
| 23 | It became the second great text and was to last as an authoritative collection for all Roman Catholics until the revision of the canon law in 1918 and the publication of the Codex . |
| 24 | The shaft was probably renewed in the 17th century and was surmounted by an oval ball till it succumbed to schoolboy vandalism some 40 years ago . |
| 25 | The Ragusan republic fell to Napoleon in 1806 and was incorporated into the Illyrian Provinces between 1808 and 1814 . |
| 26 | The church tax became institutionalised during the Weimar Republic and was incorporated into the Basic Law of the new federal republic in 1949 . |
| 27 | This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 29 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 30 | Little is known about his activities in Parliament , but in 1628 he opposed the billeting of troops and was summoned before the Privy Council ; four years later he was in conflict with the authorities again over musters . |