Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 2 | What is not in doubt is that many members failed to follow the professional path of Section 2f in the dispute , and were thus in breach of the Code of Professional Conduct . |
| 3 | About six months ago , our deputy general secretary wrote to Monseigneur , the general secretary of the bishops conference , and er told him that we hoped progress was being made , referred in particular to the degree of consensus that had been a arrived at in the baptism eucharist and ministry document and er also to the difference that had been made by the coming into being of ACTS and its commission on unity faith and order and we had a reply to that er a letter from Monseigneur assuring as that the hierarchy were taking this seriously , that they were discussing it er amongst themselves in Scotland and were also in discussion with Rome on the subject as well . |
| 4 | In summary , we can say that rugs were used by a number of civilizations , ranging from Greece through to Central Asia , during the first millennium BC , and were probably in existence for some considerable time before . |
| 5 | Medical appointments in military units were believed to provide useful experience to recent graduates or students , and were much in demand . |
| 6 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 7 | After victories on Saturday over Cotswold and Victoria ( Street ) , the Ely team of Stewart Seymour , Kevin King , David Bell and Greg Harlow had a quarter-final success yesterday against Victory ( Portsmouth ) and were always in control in their semi-final against Moonfleet Weymouth , who had been in sharp form earlier against Torbay , Preston ( Brighton ) and County Arts Norwich . |
| 8 | They have stood here since the seventeenth century , and were originally in front of the Council House which was known as the Tolzey . |
| 9 | However , the third round of talks on ending the civil war began in Rome on Nov. 10 between MNR and Frelimo representatives after a three-month lapse , and were still in session at the end of November . |
| 10 | We met , fell head over heels in love in a shockingly short time , and were still in love thirty years later when he died . ’ |
| 11 | The Gowers had backed Warwick in 1470/1 and were still in opposition in June 1471 , when a commission of arrest was issued for the head of the family , Thomas , and his uncles Robert and George . |
| 12 | The Gowers had backed Warwick in 1470/1 and were still in opposition in June 1471 , when a commission of arrest was issued for the head of the family , Thomas , and his uncles Robert and George . |
| 13 | Herries 's circular notes were negotiable in about ninety cities across Europe and even in Moscow , and were still in use in 1839 . |
| 14 | Other varieties were made on farms in small quantities and were usually for home consumption only , but the resurgence of interest in farmhouse foods coupled with milk quotas that forced farmers to look for ways of using their surplus milk , has brought about a revolution in British cheesemaking , which is all to the good for the cheese eating public . |
| 15 | In accordance with the Protective Clause in the Act the traction posts within Croydon had bases , scroll work and finials like those used by the Corporation , with the coat of arms on the former and were mainly of bracket construction . |
| 16 | We got on well to start with and were definitely in love , but we both changed over the years and in the end everything went wrong . |
| 17 | Now they accepted Tina as a daughter , and were constantly on hand with advice and assistance . |
| 18 | ‘ The jury cast their vote by secret ballot and their deliberations were meticulously checked and tripled checked and were absolutely in accordance with the rules , ’ Mr Byrne said yesterday . |
| 19 | ‘ The jury cast their vote by secret ballot and their deliberations were meticulously checked and tripled checked and were absolutely in accordance with the rules , ’ Mr Byrne said yesterday . |
| 20 | They twice hit back and were sufficiently in charge of the second half to have nicked the much-needed points themselves . |
| 21 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
| 22 | Now near the Dutch frontier , Harry felt it might be an idea to cross from Germany by climbing into a wagon in a marshalling yard , but after a tedious wait when nothing moved he returned to his cycle and was soon in sight of the red and white border posts . |
| 23 | Monks went off with his money to the other side of the world , where he spent it quickly and was soon in prison for another act of fraud . |
| 24 | The prime mover was Robert Waldegrave , son of a Worcestershire yeoman , who , having served an eight-year apprenticeship , set up his own press and was soon in trouble . |
| 25 | After a brief return to London , he went to Manchester , and was soon in business building spinning machines for the cotton mills , from which he graduated to becoming a mill owner himself at New Lanark ( q.v. ) with a thousand employees . |
| 26 | He was elected lord mayor in 1779 , and was thus in office during the Gordon riots of 1780 , when a campaign by Lord George Gordon [ q.v. ] for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 led to a week of mob rule . |
| 27 | Lead climber will be Paul Sillitoe from Wallingford in Oxfordshire … he was first of the macintyre men onto the peak of Kilimanjaro and was also on top of the Alps … this time his dad Bob is going with him as helper |
| 28 | The land-based Tigercat was used to defend Port Stanley and Goose Green and was also in service with the RAF . |
| 29 | In Sind province itself the MQM was the principal opposition party , having ended its alliance with the PPP in May 1989 [ see p. 37150 ] , and was also in control of Karachi 's municipal government . |
| 30 | The sensation had come from Dexter 's imagination , a reminder that murder often had a smiling face and was just at home in bourgeois drawing-rooms as in seedy bed and breakfast hotels . |