Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | Returned to office in 1957 and 1961 , he and his party came under severe UK and US pressure and were defeated in the 1964 elections ( the last before independence in 1966 ; see pp. 19841 ; 21428 ) . |
| 3 | She sent the first correct solution selected and knew that the teams this century who appeared in FA Cup finals and were relegated in the same season were Brighton ( 1983 ) , Leicester ( 1969 ) , Manchester City ( 1926 ) and Chelsea ( 1915 ) |
| 4 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 5 | Any of the casuals who showed signs of being genuinely ill were referred to the medical officer and were treated in the infirmary . |
| 6 | It welcomed the new ideas in La Fille Mal Gardée because the characters portrayed were familiar and were living in the farms and vineyards . |
| 7 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 8 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 9 | Two new trainees joined the programme and were instructed in the preparation of base-maps from aerial photographs and photogeological interpretation . |
| 10 | The two sculpted figures that flank the entrance symbolize holiness and wisdom ( la pietà e la sapienza ) and were completed in the mid-seventeenth-century by the sculptor Giovan Battista Casella . |
| 11 | C Company were the UK Key Company for Exercise Avenue Express , and were based in the coastal town of Hofoaek , fifty kilometres west of Copenhagen . |
| 12 | ‘ Try a window , ’ shouted someone , and within a matter of minutes two men had stout stakes and were breaking in the ground-floor windows . |
| 13 | These reverberated throughout the labour movement at the time , and were reawakened in the 1984–5 dispute . |
| 14 | Pygmy Chain Swords are low-growing , and were used in the foreground , and Java Fern grows attached to bogwood . |
| 15 | They made employment for a workforce and were used in the work of other occupations ; but mainly they were used for recreation . |
| 16 | The member States were external to the Council , and were included in the prohibition against taking instructions from external governments or powers . |
| 17 | Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon had been influenced by the demonstration at the Indépendants , and were included in the Cubist room at the Salon d'Automne . |
| 18 | They 'd finished dinner and were sitting in the study together . |
| 19 | Post-modernist interpretations evolved in her articles between 1973 and 1983 , and were published in The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths in 1987 . |
| 20 | The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently . |
| 21 | The authors of the Black Report , who included one of the most eminent Fabian academics , Professor Peter Townsend , were clear that such disparities were socially unjust and the NHS needed policies to address them , but they were forced to conclude from the evidence that the major causes of health inequalities lay beyond the NHS and were rooted in the material conditions of life experienced by the different classes . |
| 22 | The earliest known glass mirrors date back to Greco-Roman times , and were found in the tombs at Arsinoe in Egypt . |
| 23 | People were getting up out of their seats and were jiving in the aisles . |
| 24 | Wool , beef , dairy products , and cereals became more and more commercial sources of wealth , as opposed to providing for local self-sufficiency , and were concentrated in the areas most suited to their cheap production . |
| 25 | The election campaign was marred by racial tensions between the majority Macedonians and the Albanians , who constituted over one-third of Macedonia 's 1,900,000 population and were concentrated in the west of the republic . |
| 26 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 27 | The belief that the NKLP possessed little if any independence and was a vehicle for the implementation of Soviet foreign policy was held by most American officials , including George Kennan , and was illustrated in the reactions to the events of 25 June 1950 . |
| 28 | The rearrangements came too late for fly half Mike Robson , who was unavailable to travel to Kelso and was selected in the seconds . |
| 29 | Similarly , Amiel de Baux held office under the French crown , and was serving in the royal army when it entered Aquitaine in 1371 . |
| 30 | By 1970 the former was negotiating an ambitious first degree scheme with the CNAA , which was explained by the Vice-Provost as more fully meeting the needs of students , employers and society , and was presented in the belief that ‘ polytechnics should develop a degree pattern which includes an increasing amount of interdisciplinary study ’ . |