Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 2 | A real heavy duty place it was in those days |
| 3 | ‘ Looking at it now , I realise it was from this point that Diana began putting herself behind Relate and Aids charities . |
| 4 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 5 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 6 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 7 | McGregor , who had been approached by a worried neighbour , admitted making use of the computer but claimed it was on legitimate police business . |
| 8 | The 72,000 crowd were told it was off five minutes before he was due on stage . |
| 9 | When the vet did ring it was with bad news . |
| 10 | Yeah I am , but I do wish it was in better condition . |
| 11 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 12 | Ray Noorda , chairman of Novell Inc , and Unix System Laboratories Inc chief Roel Pieper visited Japan at the end of last week in an attempt to reassure shareholders and customers of their respective organisations , already , if not soon to become , joint shareholders , that life was proceeding as normal and that the future of Unix as the industry has known it was in good hands . |
| 13 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 14 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 15 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 16 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 17 | The Doctor looked away from Bernice for a moment , and she could have sworn it was with genuine remorse . |
| 18 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |
| 19 | And the last time you wore it was with that mac , remember that mac ? |
| 20 | She knew it was with good reason that she had brought her papers back across the lake that day . |
| 21 | It seemed that people thought it was about kinky sex ; at best it was taken as the onset of senility . |
| 22 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 23 | I agree , okay on my lifestyle is n't enough , but I did n't think it was of any concern because I thought well , okay so what are you s what are you suggesting then ? |
| 24 | Why do you think it was in this region , rather than in some other part of the world , that an aluminium smelter and a paper pulp mill , shown on maps K and L , were closed when world demand decreased recently ? |
| 25 | When Marc spoke it was on another topic altogether . |
| 26 | My mother , she decided to give up sugar , I think it was about one year . |
| 27 | I think it was about last week 's epi , but they seem to e imply that it was last week 's episode that would |
| 28 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 29 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 30 | I think it was on this morning yeah but it 's erm |