Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the meeting the FRUD announced that it was quite prepared to open a dialogue on the basis of an immediate bilateral ceasefire and reforms announced by Gouled Aptidon . |
| 2 | Despite this , Mazzin maintained that it was still a local feud . |
| 3 | In a statement issued on Jan. 24 the SLA announced that it was fully prepared to extend the zone " for the imperatives of security " . |
| 4 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 5 | Lucy reckoned that it was just some middle-aged woman 's thing , and left it at that . |
| 6 | As he plunged his fork into the confection Therese reflected that it was very difficult not to like a man who enjoyed life as much as Willi Zimmermann . |
| 7 | As well as the acceptance by Child of a valid philosophical position for the sociology of knowledge , Jacques Maquet suggested that it was only a threat to those philosophers who saw humans as provided with a spiritual nature that entailed the possibility of transcending economic and social determination through a theoretical ‘ faculty of the true ’ ( Maquet 1973 : 100 ) . |
| 8 | Seats in the new national assembly could be left vacant for north Korean representatives , should the latter subsequently be elected on an acceptable basis ; the United States held that it was vitally important that the Soviet Union should not exercise a veto on the role of the UN in Korea . |
| 9 | Karen found that it was very easy to talk to Drew . |
| 10 | Jane noticed that it was fairly sheltered — she was already imagining the winter . |
| 11 | Glancing at his watch , Major Tzann noted that it was almost time for the briefing . |
| 12 | Hanna showed that it was mathematically possible for such vortices to form under the right surface , wind and stability conditions and that such vortices would have the right sort of diameter , about 2 or 3 km ( I-2 miles ) , to explain the spacing of the dunes . |
| 13 | In an article published the same year , Kevin Sharpe questioned whether it was entirely accurate to label Laud as an Arminian , stressing that the archbishop saw as his main task not the propagation of a new theology but the prevention of divisive doctrinal debate . |
| 14 | Alida felt that it was quite unseemly , in a woman of Florence Ames ' age , to bring a man-friend openly through the place , to flaunt such a curious person . |
| 15 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 16 | Asked why it had taken so long for Doris to get back in touch with this world , Mr Lacey explained that it was probably the exhaustion caused by her illness , the brain operation and unsuccessful medical treatment . |
| 17 | Did n't that did n't Mr say that it was really crap |
| 18 | It 's possible that some other minor eruptions occurred between 1681 and 1883 , but if they did , there is no record of them , and all of the reports and descriptions made by ships passing Krakatoa suggest that it was quite dormant . |
| 19 | T. Thistleton Dyer comments that it was once customary to inter a lamb beneath the church 's altar ; the kirkgrim or churchgrim , in the form of this lamb , would latterly appear in the pews to indicate a coming funeral . |
| 20 | Wilson went and it was more the going that helped her than the services themselves . |
| 21 | On Aug. 21 Nikolai Zhurbenko and Pavel Creanga , the heads of the commission monitoring the Dnestr ceasefire , reported that large numbers of arms had been surrendered and that warring groups had mostly disbanded , although Zhurbenko said that it was too soon for peacekeeping forces to be withdrawn . |
| 22 | Matthew wondered whether it was simply a lucky draw from the gene pool that she had ended up with such spectacular looks , or was it the result of years of careful nurturing ? |
| 23 | The saga began with a desire for Argentina to prove that it was as good as the major technological powers . |
| 24 | As he picked his way through the traffic , heading south , Rory wondered if it was as plain as that . |
| 25 | Mr Austick recalled that it was almost 19 years since he ‘ turned the Tories out ’ at a by-election and said Coun. Hall was poised to repeat that surprise victory in Skipton and Ripon on April 9 . |
| 26 | McLeish decided that it was probably not the moment to suggest to her that the real reason any civil servant disliked lobbyists must be that the chaps were paid to make sure Ministers got a view other than the Departmental one . |
| 27 | In 1904 D. G. Hogarth wrote that it was still the only source for many places . |
| 28 | Michael Sadleir suggested that it was partly from professional jealousy of his enormous popularity that Marryat 's contemporaries ‘ treated him with patronising tolerance as a jolly tarpaulin who told a rattling good story ’ . |
| 29 | Just before the Calcutta Test Gooch admitted that it was only the actual cricket , and not the bit in between , that he enjoyed from touring these days . |
| 30 | Jack tried but it was quite impossible ; the button , like the steering wheel , was red hot . |