Example sentences of "and was [adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to be a ‘ one-off ’ event and was not conceived of as the beginning of a moral protest movement or group . |
| 2 | The Court held that the acceptance of oral petitions would be legitimate , although this power had never been granted by the Council of the League , was not directly authorised by the mandate agreement , and was strongly objected to by all the mandatory powers . |
| 3 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 4 | The potential of pensions to reduce unemployment was beginning to be discussed within the labour movement , and was briefly alluded to by Chamberlain in the Commons debates on the 1925 Bill . |
| 5 | He had improved the efficiency of pumping engines by about 300% and also provided the machine that effectively mechanised industry and was hardly improved upon for about 50 years . |
| 6 | Philip 's father had served in the Irish Guards in the First World War , and was always referred to by his rank . |
| 7 | It was very controversial and was never acted upon by government . |
| 8 | Not one of the little piece picking a little piece out , but an overall assessment and this was produced for the County Council by their environmental consultants and was specifically referred to in the County Surveyor and I think County Planning Officer 's joint report , and that er assessment said , rather than damaging an an irreplaceable , sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 9 | He went for a time to Australia , then jumped ship in Cape Town ( which caused a scandal ) and was subsequently cared for by his uncle Willy , Theunis 's younger son . |
| 10 | The species was first successfully introduced to Britain independently in 1861 by John G. Veicht , an Exeter nursery-man , and the Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune and was much sought after by those coveting the rare and the curious . |
| 11 | A rapidly re-drafted Part III was introduced into the House of Lords at the Committee stage , after the summer recess , and was therefore deliberated upon with some speed . |
| 12 | Maria attended a play centre at school in the evening and was then looked after by a neighbour . |
| 13 | Dr Ian Macdonald was a senior consultant pathologist at the great London hospital , also a retained Home Office pathologist , and was usually asked for by Scotland Yard if he was available . |