Example sentences of "and [vb past] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those closed and appropriated was the Premonstratensian house at Bayham in Sussex . |
| 2 | More emphatic and repeated was the steady attempt to refine the habits of the lower orders by repressing the more brutal of their popular recreations , an uphill battle in which many Sussex gentry were involved from mid-century onwards . |
| 3 | This collaboration , it claimed , had brought the country to the brink of " collapse and disaster " , and had been the principal reason for the suspension of US$100,000,000 in US aid in late May . |
| 4 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 5 | It had been a village of thatched cabins , with virtually no other buildings at all , and had been the original Galway town before De Burgo came . |
| 6 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 7 | His frequent comments on events occurring on the Continent as well as in England show how well informed and absorbed were the lower levels of the ‘ political nation ’ at this period . |