Example sentences of "and was [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived in Abyssinia and was cordially received by the Emperor , but was never allowed to leave the country . |
| 2 | The leaders returned to the Knesset for the vote , in which the Shamir government was defeated by 60 votes to 55 ( with five abstentions ) , and was thereby relegated to the status of a minority-backed caretaker administration . |
| 3 | He appeared against John Penruddock [ q.v. ] and his rebels in 1655 , but refused any office under Oliver Cromwell , and was badly beaten in the 1656 elections . |
| 4 | Three European Community countries have introduced legal bans on tobacco advertising : France , where ban comes fully into effect on 1.1.93 , Italy , where the ban came in 1962 , partly to protect the state monopoly tobacco company , and was badly enforced until the mid-1980s and Portugal , where the effects appear indecisive but hard evidence is not to hand . |
| 5 | He was also the uncle of Banda 's confidante and Official Hostess Cecilia Kadzamira and was widely regarded as the President 's heir-apparent . |
| 6 | Will he confirm that he was not detained or locked up and was widely recognised as the leader of this party — unlike the experience of the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) after four years as Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 7 | But the next best thing is for more money towards fourteen to nineteen education so that 's very welcome at least and was widely supported in the various versions we saw this morning , my concern is with the way in which this money is to got from the centre to the school and I 'd like to speak very strongly in favour of what if I got what you 're is education so that we aim to assist schools to build on their own interests and and not have it parcelled out by some central authority which is and which a sigh of this is an area of great relevance to schools |
| 8 | Britain decided not to screen the series , and was widely condemned by the European media for her typically non-communautaire attitude . |
| 9 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 10 | Brass is another important alloy of copper ( made with zinc ) , which first appears during the latter half of the first millennium BC and was widely used from the Roman period onwards . |
| 11 | An important facture painting , ‘ Graue Hunde , drei Streifen ’ by Georg Baselitz ( lot 31 , est. $350–450,000 ) , which London dealer Michael Hue-Williams had acquired from Saatchi several years ago and was widely known in the trade , sold to a telephone bidder for $370,000 ( £205,600 ) . |
| 12 | It soon became a phenomenal success , and was closely followed by the opening of a major factory in Wijk , Holland , ‘ bought with borrowed money that was not available to the company ’ , James commented . |
| 13 | This was launched on 26 February 1981 and was closely followed by the Maximum Investment and the Flexicover Plan . |
| 14 | In the Ministry of Defence , the programme was known as the functional costing system and was closely modelled on the programme structure then in use by the Pentagon . |
| 15 | Anthropology as an organized subject goes back to the mid-nineteenth century [ Fortes 1969:6 , following Kroeber ] and was closely associated with the study of evolution . |
| 16 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 17 | To one side , a kitchen had been improvised , and was partly shielded from the rest of the room with an embroidered curtain , perhaps as a gesture towards the more gentlemanly side of Victor 's life . |
| 18 | Tell me it , you lying little shite , she said repeatedly , and was partly reassured by the fact she had him floundering . |
| 19 | The dock was the first of its kind in Northern Britain and was wholly built within the High Water mark and measured five acres . |
| 20 | Originally the yarn for the cloth was hand-spun from wool by the crofters of Lewis and was wholly produced in the Isle . |
| 21 | If symptoms of disease occurred during any five day reintroduction then that particular food was said to be suspect and was temporarily omitted from the diet . |
| 22 | It aimed at boosting rice production and improving literacy and health care , and was partially financed with the revenues from oil which had been discovered in the 1950s . |
| 23 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 24 | Edward , offended by the detergent , wandered out into the garden and was instantly distracted by the sound of digging from beyond the yew hedge . |
| 25 | A girl emerged from the dairy with a pan of milk and was instantly surrounded by the stable cats , mewing pleadingly as though they had not caught a single mouse for days . |
| 26 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 27 | He left the fertile area behind and was soon lost in the midst of enormous tracts of poor soil , black as soot . |
| 28 | He left for the Somme at the end of December and was soon transferred to the 2nd Manchesters . |
| 29 | The successor , therefore , acted as the son of Horus in the rites of burying the Osiris as in the legend and was thus recognised as the legitimate king . |
| 30 | She went up the ladder , and was immediately grasped by the upper arms and marched unceremoniously into the great hall , where the family had gathered . |