Example sentences of "and was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the crowd 's consternation , Eve , dropping her red cloak , had hurled herself off the front of the cart and was pushing through the crowd , quite plainly a boy in breeches , shirt and felt boots . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The expected organism was grown from the original site of minor surgery on her back and was confirmed as a type of S aureus producing toxic shock syndrome toxin I. Isolation of such a toxin is diagnostically helpful , but there is substantial evidence that other staphylococcal enterotoxins contribute to a high mortality . |
| 4 | Fluid was present in both ears at three examinations over three months and was confirmed by a validated otoscopist and by tympanometry . |
| 5 | This was the view taken in Nutricia v Zuid-Hollandse Conservenfabriek ( OJL 376/22 ) and was confirmed by the European Court of Justice in Remia & Nutricia v Commission ( Case 42/84 [ 1987 ] 1 CMLR 1 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 8 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 9 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 10 | The paper is titled ‘ Adhesion and Detachment of The Toe Pads of Tree Frogs ’ and was selected by a prominent group of twenty professional biologists for publication in The Journal of Experimental Biology . |
| 11 | The rearrangements came too late for fly half Mike Robson , who was unavailable to travel to Kelso and was selected in the seconds . |
| 12 | Next week 's tournament was an unusual one in the golfing schedule , since it was sponsored by a number of companies and was fronted by a comedy team from television called Lumby and Titch . |
| 13 | The Temple of Saturn was an early building but was reconstructed in the 4th century A.D. It was large , on a lofty podium , and was fronted by a six-columned Ionic portico in grey granite . |
| 14 | Similarly , Amiel de Baux held office under the French crown , and was serving in the royal army when it entered Aquitaine in 1371 . |
| 15 | Dr. Peter Clough , Research Fellow in the Division of Education , completed his Ph.D thesis on the phenomenology of classroom talk in 1983 , and was appointed on a part-time lecturer in Division , 1983–5 . |
| 16 | Meanwhile he continued also to operate as a moneylender , advancing large sums on bond during these same decades , and was appointed to a royal commission on the cloth trade in the late 1630s . |
| 17 | He commanded a hired merchantman in the summer of 1650 , serving under his brother , and was appointed to a fourth-rate warship for the following winter guard . |
| 18 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 19 | In 1852 he relinquished his teaching duties on grounds of poor health and was appointed to the sinecure posts of director of the College , secretary and resident governor . |
| 20 | Wounded in action , he was twice mentioned in dispatches , was awarded the MC ( June 1916 ) , and was appointed to the DSO ( June 1918 ) . |
| 21 | He received an honorary DCL ( Durham ) in 1908 , was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1909 , was knighted for his Royal Society work in 1912 , and was appointed to the premier diocesan chancellorship , London , in the same year . |
| 22 | In 1932 he chaired a committee of enquiry on the Post Office and was appointed to the BBC board of governors , and in 1935 he became BBC chairman . |
| 23 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 24 | He had been a non-executive director since September 1986 and was appointed to the LVMH Board of Directors in January 1989 . |
| 25 | Born in 1948 , Brendan O'Neill was appointed managing director of Guinness Brewing Worldwide in February 1993 , and was appointed to the main board in April 1993 . |
| 26 | After working in Armagh he became Recorder of Belfast in 1982 and was appointed to the High Court two years later . |
| 27 | Zhu Rongji , the only one of the three new standing committee members with thorough reformist credentials , was a former mayor of Shanghai and was appointed as a Vice-Premier and economics expert at Deng 's behest in April 1991 [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 28 | She stood for Parliament , unsuccessfully , as a pacifist Labour candidate in the general election of 1918 , and was appointed as an alderman to Battersea borough council in 1920 . |
| 29 | Heng Samrin retained his post as President of the State Council and was appointed as the party 's " honorary president " . |
| 30 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |