Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [subord] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Levy , for J. 's parents , sought to persuade us that the particular order here could be justified because it was only an interim order , designed to ‘ hold ’ the situation for a short period until a full hearing . |
| 2 | Consultants can provide a source of expert advice for local groups , but the issue of who controls the process must be addressed as it was absolutely crucial for any community economic development . |
| 3 | The Chamber of the House of Commons was damaged by bombs during the Second World War and when deciding whether it should be rebuilt as it was originally , or along the lines of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa and elsewhere in the Commonwealth ( ’ one representative : one desk ’ ) , Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , with other senior politicians , plumped for the old ways — and the old ways were those of adversarial politics . |
| 4 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 5 | But now he was going into space , and when he had made his fortune he would pay for the whole of Mali to be irrigated so it was as green as France . |
| 6 | The Council 's decision to scrap the tradition in regard to the diaconate suggested that the same tradition in regard to the priesthood could equally well be abandoned if it was pastorally desirable . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , levity is sometimes difficult to resist , for there are occasions when even the most solemn and serious student of legislation is compelled to the conclusion either that Parliament has gone off its collective head or that the parliamentary draftsman was drunk , demented or determined to perpetrate ( and perpetuate ) some private joke in the well-founded hope that it would not be spotted until it was too late . |
| 8 | One had to be destroyed because it was too dangerous to handle . |
| 9 | Two capitals , Kollek maintained , would mean a border and different laws in the two halves , " and in no time the city would be divided as it was before " . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh thought of him as a type of police officer less common than formerly but still not rare ; the conscientious and incorruptible detective of limited imagination and somewhat greater intelligence who had never supposed that the evil of the world should be condoned because it was frequently inexplicable and its perpetrators unfortunate . |