Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admits that he took the vehicle , but says that it was already damaged when he got in or that it was not damaged when he left the scene and that it must have been damaged by someone who took it later . |
| 2 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
| 3 | This reveals a close understanding of the phenomenon and shows that it was well known even at this early date . |
| 4 | The broad rectangular market place , laid out at the gates of the former castle there , still exists as it was originally planned . |
| 5 | Of the Scottish Daily News , the study finds that it was inadequately financed from the outset ; was poorly equipped ; so applied the principle of workers ' control as to make ‘ executive decision taking impossible if not farcical ’ ; and produced an unacceptable product . |
| 6 | Why the date 1785 was used is uncertain ; it was said by Professor J.G. Wright to commemorate the meeting of the Odiham Agricultural Society when the first mention of the idea of improving farriery was made , but the strong possibility remains that it was originally meant to be 1875 , the year the College received its Charter of Incorporation and adopted its coat of arms , and that someone corrected what was wrongly assumed to be an error . |
| 7 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |