Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for those , especially within the Movement , for whom it ranked as a burning issue , Hitler 's words were clearly taken as a signal and sanction for further radical action and were increasingly treated as a literal description of what was actually taking place . |
| 2 | They had a strong sense of shared identity , had been trained together , and were strongly linked by kinship ties . |
| 3 | Municipal men had traditionally operated in a service-inspired environment and were strongly committed to the spread of electricity use , especially to domestic consumers . |
| 4 | Movement artefacts gave rapid fluctuations that occurred simultaneously at all recording sites and were easily differentiated from colonic contractions and discarded from analysis . |
| 5 | They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it . |
| 6 | The six other young patients were clear and were immediately isolated from the infected four . |
| 7 | On the 24th June a small number of reinforcements had reached us and were immediately deployed to the Commando units facing the enemy . |
| 8 | A corduroy pair in livid crimson , they are horrid to behold but a joy to paint , and were immediately transferred to the canvas . |
| 9 | They rode the lift to the thirtieth floor and were immediately challenged by a uniformed policeman as they stepped out . |
| 10 | The case remained technically open for some time , with sporadic review rather than monitoring ( because , it was said , anything requiring active intervention would have been readily made known ) ; finally events made residential care inevitable , and were immediately notified by the GP . |
| 11 | We made a pilgrimage to Dilston , wandering round the ruined , ivy-clad tower and were utterly captivated by the beauty of Hexhamshire and determined to move north as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | There were far too many accounts in the papers , of unsuspecting women who opened doors and were hideously attacked by those waiting . |
| 13 | The first big postwar EDA campaign was in 1954 : the ‘ Four Foundations of Modern Living ’ advertisements promoted electric cookers , water heaters , refrigerators and washing machines , and were heavily supplemented by the Area Boards ' own campaigns . |
| 14 | A total of seven mineshafts were located along the route and were either consolidated by grout injection or capped at rockhead . |
| 15 | any of his books were translated into foreign languages and were avidly read by Christians on the Continent . |
| 16 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 17 | Woodmill piled the pressure on and were finally rewarded with a Martin Shores goal with only thirty seconds left . |
| 18 | We got away and were finally rescued by a park ranger . |
| 19 | Justice was rightly done , however , when they lost the war and were again humiliated at Wembley in 1966 . |
| 20 | The members who got most out of it , and were most appreciated by the Boards , were those who saw their role as a symbiotic mixture of representing consumer complaints to managers and presenting a favourable public relations image for the Board . |
| 21 | The new Patron and his wife attended Congress and were enthusiastically received as the gain in the Association 's status by the patronage of this distinguished Peer was appreciated by everybody present . |
| 22 | So the Megarian decrees had economic effects , and were surely intended to . |
| 23 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 24 | The young princes , dressed smartly in dark blazers , helped their grandmother collect the flowers and were later rewarded by a lady in the crowd who offered them gift-wrapped bars of chocolate . |
| 25 | These he translated into murals in gouache on paper which covered the walls of the Colony Room for some months and were later replaced by a Jamaican oil painting and a portrait of Ricky Stride which Muriel Belcher owned . |
| 26 | His wartime recollections , Memoirs of a Camp-Follower , were published in 1934 , and were later reissued as A Naturalist Goes to War ( 1942 ) . |
| 27 | Members of Convocation Standing Committee were invited to take part in the procession , and were later joined for a marquee lunch by Convocation representatives on Court . |
| 28 | The basic concepts in the Gower Report were accepted in the White Paper , and the Financial Services Bill , and were later enshrined in the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 29 | Beginning in the 50s , we became active in a pre-civil rights movement and were later known as a civil rights school . |
| 30 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |