Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [subord] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the Camilla tape lay dormant in British newsrooms for months until it was published overseas and widely circulated in Britain . |
| 2 | However , in August 1815 Van Butchell 's son presented the embalmed body of his mother to the Royal College of Surgeons where it was placed in the Curio Room . |
| 3 | The Government could play a part in advocating the recycling of plastics if it were to levy a small charge on each recyclable bottle . |
| 4 | He was beginning to see that his concept of Art with a capital A was European , based on a classical tradition that was never going to expand to meet the challenge of the new generations of painters because it was defined by its time . |
| 5 | Having housed a wartime officers ' mess and a succession of families , the house had undergone a motley array of alterations since it was remodelled in 1800 for a local mill owner . |
| 6 | It would be wrong , in my judgment , to order under subsection ( 2 ) the repayment of the price of shares unless it were known that the investor was willing to give up the shares . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) is apparently the only person in the country who does not yet believe that the minimum wage would cost a substantial number of jobs if it were implemented . |
| 8 | Coal tar was the feedstock for all kinds of chemicals until it was replaced by oil in the 1940s . |
| 9 | Disunity in Congress also compelled the administration to look for allies if it was to risk military involvement . |
| 10 | In fact , I would not be able to conduct sessions of regression therapy — whether present- or past-life — if I thought that my patient was going to go through agonies while it was going on . |
| 11 | Moreover , the report found that single parents were often expected to share a bedroom with a child , where two parents were not , and were seldom offered houses with gardens because it was thought that they could not look after them . |
| 12 | The numerous customers who have banked with Holt 's or Drummonds for generations include high ranking military , aristocracy , West End clubs , institutions and societies , many of which opened accounts with Drummonds when it was founded in 1717 . |
| 13 | Some of us remember stories about the famous wartime Mosquito , which was mainly of wooden construction , running into trouble with termites when it was operated in tropical conditions in the Far East . |
| 14 | It was said that ‘ Mr Eame excells in the laying out Water ’ and he was called in to introduce it into landscapes where it was lacking , as at Hawkstone , where he made the River Hawk , a lake one and a half miles long , in 1786 . |
| 15 | The task of household budgeting was an extremely difficult one and evoked harsh words from husbands if it was mismanaged , even though most husbands probably had little notion of how to manage on the sums they gave their wives . |
| 16 | AN experimental Dambusters ‘ bouncing bomb ’ will be raised by helicopter tomorrow from waters where it was tested nearly 50 years ago . |
| 17 | In the first place , it had to compete with already established religions in regions where it was trying to gain a foothold — with the religions of Syria , Phoenicia , Asia Minor , Greece , Egypt , the whole of the Mediterranean world and beyond , the Roman Empire . |
| 18 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 19 | Asphalt was often used as a flat-roof surface in older buildings in locations where it was appreciated that a sheet-metal covering would prove unsuitable because of the very large area of roof or where regular foot traffic was anticipated . |
| 20 | Carl Sagan , the distinguished astrophysicist , suggested in 1961 that Venus could be made habitable to earthlings if it were seeded with blue-green algae , which would split up the carbon and oxygen molecules to glean the carbon necessary for the glucose and carbohydrate diets they would need . |
| 21 | There is a loft where the grain used to be dried over tiles before it was ground . |