Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages were crisp and white and were filled with the most marvellous pictures of animals wearing clothes . |
| 2 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 3 | It was the first two which carried most force and were backed by the most extensive social research . |
| 4 | At a ceremony in Windhoek , the capital , the South African flag was lowered at midnight on the evening of March 20 , and was replaced by the newly designed flag of the Republic of Namibia ( composed of diagonal stripes of blue , red and green separated by white lines , with a golden sun at the top near the hoist ) . |
| 5 | This week I rang up to inquire about train times and was assisted by the most delightful man I have encountered in two decades of dealing with BR . |
| 6 | After a disastrous fire the new church was begun by Justinian in 532 and was built in the incredibly short time of six years , though the interior decoration was completed after this . |
| 7 | By the close of the 1980s the West Coast had started to regain some of its old vitality and was emerging as the most utilised and profitable part of the InterCity network . |
| 8 | My understanding is that the signalling in the Severn tunnel area is relatively new , and was installed in the relatively recent past . |