Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] it [was/were] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was support notably from hard-line leaders in Iran for the proposition that opposing US forces was akin to a holy war , a view given prominence when it was articulated by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a Sept. 12 broadcast , although Iran continued to affirm its backing for UN sanctions . |
| 2 | ( iv ) Development of oesophageal ulceration after emergency sclerotherapy delayed randomisation as it was felt that its pressure would increase the hazards of oesophageal transection in patients randomised to this arm of the trial . |
| 3 | The infamous glass pyramid outside the Louvre caused outrage when it was built — but then so did the Eiffel Tower . |
| 4 | One derivative , later named methisazone , attracted interest because it was shown in clinical trials in Madras , in 1963 , to prevent people exposed to smallpox during an epidemic from developing the disease , even though it did not hasten recovery once the disease had developed . |
| 5 | I think that basically the 1980s were very rough and there were some very difficult times and in order to persuade the country to change , and impose change where it was resisted , and to carry it through , required both will and language characteristic of that challenge and Mrs Thatcher has been associated with that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I told my teacher and she telephoned Mummy but it was engaged . |
| 7 | Firstly , Baxter could not see how it was possible to avoid Antinomianism if it was accepted that Christ died for the actual sins of His people . |
| 8 | The service broker did not conform to OMG specifications when it was launched earlier this year — version 2.0 will be out late next year . |
| 9 | Mr Michael King , regional secretary for the association , said it would provide accommodation where it was needed at the very bottom of the housing ladder . |
| 10 | I 've like got to last sentence and it was cut , and it was like really lovely of |
| 11 | He expressed sympathy and it was received with complacency . |
| 12 | There had been the curious tale of the Argentinian scrap metal merchants who had landed on the island of South Georgia , where the United Kingdom had exercised sovereignty since it was discovered by Captain Cook in I775 . |
| 13 | In November 1252 , for example , the king told him both to seek timber for the new roof of the abbey and to see that a great new bell was hung before the feast of St Edward : he was not to leave London until it was done . |
| 14 | If laboratory tests for HIV were not performed or gave indeterminate results , any of the conditions in the list below would indicate AIDS if it was diagnosed by a definitive method and the patient had none of the other causes of immunodeficiency listed below that could explain the occurrence of the indicator disease : |
| 15 | R.10 enables the Council to revoke recognition where it was granted as a result of error or fraud . |
| 16 | Would you share Tara if it was offered ? |
| 17 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 18 | Plans for the extensive use of privatization coupons , reserving 40 per cent of nationalized property for sale to citizens at special low prices , encountered problems when it was revealed on Jan. 20 that up to 6,000,000 of the 8,000,000 books printed ( each worth Kcs1,035 or about US$35 — and exchangeable for shares in state companies — see also pp. 38584-85 ) had disappeared , allegedly bought up by private investment funds promising individuals a tenfold return on their investment after a year . |
| 19 | After World War One , in the second phase of the psychoanalysis , when he was concerned with the analysis of ego , anxiety became a sense of danger in the ego , and the ego felt anxiety when it was threatened , and as a result , there was three sorts of anxiety neurotic anxiety , when the ego was threatened by the drives of the id moral anxiety , when it was threatened by punishment from the super ego , and realistic anxiety , when it was threatened by dangers from the outside world . |
| 20 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 21 | As he walked with his brothers , Angel felt that , however lucky they were to have a university education , neither of them really saw life as it was lived . |
| 22 | Because people refused — and still do refuse — to live life as it was meant to be lived , in happy friendship and obedience to God , evil is present , not only in our world , but within us all . |
| 23 | The tower was soon in the way of traffic and was taken down by Mowlem who brought it , minus the clock , to Swanage by sailing ship where it was re-erected in 1868 in the grounds of The Grove , later greatly extended as the Grosvenor Hotel , and now to be redeveloped as marine residences . |
| 24 | The machine carried on producing results until it was closed down in 1969 , with some of its hardware transferred to Culham for use on an apparatus for new pinch studies , HBTX , built in 1969/70 . |
| 25 | He was pleased the Government was putting money where it was needed : ‘ The average farmer gets a poor return on capital invested . |
| 26 | Alec gave chase until it was thrown back over his head to be caught by one of the boys at the rear . |
| 27 | The aircraft spent many years at Kaman helicopters as a wind making machine until it was recovered by the Marine Corps Museum in 1971 . |
| 28 | for instance , seeing how firearms had decimated their neighbours , they might decide to bow to the inevitable and offer tribute before it was demanded with menaces . |
| 29 | A taxpayer in Lambeth whose house was valued at £121,000 , for instance , would save £111 if it were valued instead at £119,000 ; so councils could find themselves swamped with appeals . |
| 30 | If Cramlington had been a designated New Town then all their housing would have been built on land which was designated as housing land before it was sold to them . |