Example sentences of "and it [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 2 | Their previous cutter Vigilant was still going strong and it was hoped that Searcher would have an equally successful career . |
| 3 | Plots of land were provided where houses could be built near the coast and it was hoped that fishing would become the occupation of former crofters ; it was the beginning of the villages . |
| 4 | Er i and it was given that image by pointing the cameras at at at the flats , and then spieling off the crime figures for the whole subdivision . |
| 5 | And it was given new nourishment by a series of Hitler speeches in late 1940 and early 1941 which aimed to strengthen confidence in final victory and create the impression that the decisive strike to end the war — people still presumed that it would be against Britain — would take place in the course of the next twelve months . |
| 6 | SERC decided earlier last year to cut its budget for neutron sources by £5m and it was announced last November that the government would be renegotiating its contribution to the neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin ( ILL ) in Grenoble , France . |
| 7 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 8 | In the meantime , a search for a suitable building site had been carried out and it was decided that ground at Leith being prepared before the war for the Western Harbour extension was ideally suited for the purpose . |
| 9 | Unfortunately we were not able to meet all the requirements for County support and it was decided some time ago that we would go ahead with an experimental opening without it . |
| 10 | When Lawson resigned the pundits gathered , and mused , and offered up their conjectures and reflections , and it was called Political Speculation . |
| 11 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 12 | The tenant died within nine months after the grant of the council house tenancy and it was held that section 87 did not protect the defendant . |
| 13 | The defendant thought that he was being attacked when he acted , and it was held that self-defence was available to him . |
| 14 | Mr Edwards tells me : ‘ That relates to an old bill and it was settled last September . ’ |
| 15 | Mr referred to the provisions of the Data Protection Act , and it was agreed that permission would not be given . |
| 16 | Discussion took place over Korea and it was agreed that trusteeship was the appropriate policy to adopt . |
| 17 | Freud began to develop his theories in 1886 during the Victorian Age , a time when it was socially unacceptable to discuss sex , and it was considered that woman and children should be seen and not heard . |
| 18 | Means of relief were sought , and it was found that fever , produced artificially or by deliberate infection with malaria , produced remissions . |
| 19 | During the summer months climbing charges rose considerably and it was rumoured that climbing access would be curtailed , due , in part , to malicious damage to gates and fencing ( although there was no proof that this was done by climbers ) . |