Example sentences of "and was [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , this notion of the station as strong point continued , and was partly the reason for many being built outside the communities they served . |
| 2 | A barman who saw the dance at Berwick 's Quarterbeck Club said last night : ‘ She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party . |
| 3 | He acted as the principal connection between King , Council , and Parliament ; for , until Robert Cecil went to the Lords in 1604 , the Secretary was usually a commoner and was normally the Crown 's principal mouthpiece in the Lower House . |
| 4 | She returned to the bar and was soon the centre of attention . |
| 5 | The United States might have argued that Nicaragua 's concealment of its incapacity constituted fraud and was thus a ground for invalidating its consent . |
| 6 | After having been an interloper in the East India trade in 1696 , he was a major investor in the ‘ new ’ East India flotation of 1698 , and was both a director of the company and manager for the united East India trade over the years 1699–1708 . |
| 7 | The mortgage debt had grown so fast , explained Robin Leigh-Pemberton , Governor of the Bank of England in June 1990 , and was both a symptom and a cause of a wider cultural change in Britain 's society . |
| 8 | Trier is the largest city in the region and was both the capital of ancient Gaul and the birthplace of Karl Marx . |
| 9 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 10 | The British rejection weakened the force of the proposal and was probably a factor in its slow progress . |
| 11 | The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable . |
| 12 | She looked Italian , was well dressed and was probably a secretary at the United Nations . |
| 13 | The former agreed " that Gurney had been a very difficult person to manage and was probably the source of all the mischief " . |
| 14 | Granting a monopoly was the easiest way for the monarch to encourage a trade or an industry , and was also a way to reward courtiers , who did not get salaries and hoped for substantial favours of just this sort . |
| 15 | The greatest wild-flower expert in this country is Dr Miriam Rothschild , who had known Charles since he was a child , and was also a friend of Mollie Salisbury . |
| 16 | In October 1626 he had been drafted on to the loan commission for Yorkshire , and was also a commissioner in June 1627 to finance shipbuilding using recusancy fines , which commissions were headed by Sir John Savile ( later first Baron Savile of Pontefract , q.v . ) . |
| 17 | He was formerly a trustee of the World Wide Fund for Nature and was also a founder and trustee of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge . |
| 18 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 19 | He said he had environmental credentials as he was a life member of the British Butterfly Conservation Society and was also a member of the Kent branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England . |
| 20 | She personified the sun 's heat and was also a protector of the dead . |
| 21 | From these reports and maps , Brian who is a scientist , and was also a pilot , reached the following conclusions as to the actual course of events . |
| 22 | He kept hens too , and was also a pigeon enthusiast . |
| 23 | Strictly speaking , Jessie 's services were shared with Bunty , but Bunty had no quick changes and was also a slut — her dressing-shelf was a clutter of blunted sticks of grease-paint , dirty powderpuffs , a mangey rouge-stained rabbits-foot , caked make-up towels , and powder over everything . |
| 24 | Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn . |
| 25 | It held that the Trust Territory had two functions : it was the mechanism through which the United States fulfilled its duties under the Trusteeship Agreement , and was also a body with a separate status . |
| 26 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 27 | Yockney became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1860 , and was also a fellow of the Geological Society ( 1865 ) . |
| 28 | He took an active part in many School societies , and was also an editor for the Oxford University Press and official of the Assistant Masters ' Association . |
| 29 | The coxswain considered taking the casualty to Newlyn at this point , which was to leeward , but decided to continue to Falmouth , as that was the port which the casualty was trying to reach and was also the lifeboat 's home port . |
| 30 | Yet recent research has shown that the village was the centre of a great late Saxon estate that once extended north-east to Towcester , south-east to Buckingham , north to Chipping Warden and west perhaps well into Oxfordshire , and was also the site of a great Saxon minster church . |