Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reptiles are not monophyletic either , because the common ancestor of lizards and turtles was also the ancestor of birds and mammals . |
| 2 | A damp warm world inhabited by insects and turtles was suddenly a disguise for horrible terrors with huge teeth . |
| 3 | Instead [ she will ] use the word ‘ participant ’ , and ‘ include data about myself in the research , as one of the participants ’ , as if equality between subjects and psychologists was simply a matter of presenting more data and using more liberal words ( 1986 : 29 ) . |
| 4 | The relations of capitalists and workers were therefore the product of a specific state of affairs , the ownership which had arisen in history and was not inevitable , or given in the laws of logic . |
| 5 | A large part of the dominant society at the time really believed that such subjects , and suggestions were more a figment of my neurosis and my hang-ups but time has proven that view to be untrue . |
| 6 | The human rights and relationships of lesbians and gays were recently the subject of heated debate — and legal action — in the Church of England . |
| 7 | He would come when he would come , and the Tabula Rasa would have to bide its time , though the longer he was away the more the likelihood grew of one of their number voicing the suspicion some of them surely nurtured : that Godolphin 's dealings in talismans and wantons were only the tip of the iceberg . |