Example sentences of "and in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 2 | He went upstairs with his wife , and in two minutes they were asleep . |
| 3 | My mother said she thought the two qualities went together and Lili said they did n't : not necessarily , and in many cases they were mutually exclusive . |
| 4 | So Dawn Run came to Cheltenham on Gold Cup day with only four races over fences behind her , and in many quarters it was felt that inexperience would prove her downfall against her much more seasoned rivals . |
| 5 | The Italian the other children spoke in school was not a dialect like my Triestino and in many subjects I was in any case behind the others , a thought which made me very unhappy . |
| 6 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 7 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 8 | ‘ the transfer on its face was a perfectly regular sale and as against third parties taking a legal estate for value and in good faith it was within the ostensible authority of Mrs. Steed and can not now be repudiated against such third parties . |
| 9 | But in politics and in real war he was a child , incapable of concentrating for long . |
| 10 | A number of rarer departures from Mendel 's laws were found , and in each case they were able to find a corresponding abnormality in the chromosomes , of precisely the kind required to explain the genetic findings . |
| 11 | In all three studies , the children were selected to be as representative as possible and in each case they were asked to perform exhaustive intelligence tests and behavioural exercises . |
| 12 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 13 | And in all probability you were n't alone , which means that either you fell , or were swept , out of a boat someone else has landed safely somewhere . ’ |
| 14 | Only a few , such as the Royal Bristol Volunteers carried on , and in that instance it was to guard the many Napoleonic prisoners of war in Bristol . |
| 15 | And in that time you were in receipt of benefit were you ? |
| 16 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 17 | The working party adopted the proposal for a Committee of Institutions — as did the Council , and in due course it was established . |
| 18 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 19 | The basilica was badly damaged in the ninth century earthquake , and in Medieval days it was used , like the Colosseum , as a quarry for building . |
| 20 | And in another matter he was right : she had possessed no knowledge of the rigours of the task when she so confidently proposed it . |
| 21 | She closed her eyes and in three minutes she was asleep . |
| 22 | Beaumont speaks of the ‘ basilisk 's death-dealing eye ’ in The Woman Hater , and in Christian art it was the absolute symbol of evil and sin : |
| 23 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 24 | Some of the seeds hung like bells from the ends of the ferny frond , and in some species they were several centimetres long . |
| 25 | And in some cases they were referred to mental-health professionals like us . |
| 26 | The roof of the Victorian section was not water-tight and in some places it was leaking like a sieve . |
| 27 | The polemical and ideological edge to this debate must be borne in mind : not all those engaged in it were in favour of increased public spending , due to fears about its effects on investment and on incentives ; and in some quarters it was passionately felt that the ageing of society was socially , economically , and even politically undesirable ( Thane forthcoming ) , and hence that its dangers should be emphasized . |
| 28 | The inspectorate , who came into most frequent contact with the diversities of local procedures , were consistently interested in ‘ modernising ’ the selection system , and in some ways they were the single group most responsible for altering local authority activities . |
| 29 | In some ways it was better and in some ways it was worse . |
| 30 | He looked an ineffectual fool , and in some ways he was both ineffectual and foolish . |