Example sentences of "[conj] it was do " in BNC.

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1 To meet such situations Younger proposed a new offence of ‘ unlawful surveillance by device ’ where it was done surreptitiously .
2 She knew that it was to do with her being pregnant , but that it was n't the simple fact of her pregnancy .
3 There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it .
4 Giving banks and building societies the right to handle conveyancing might not make the service cheaper , but the competition should mean that it was done better .
5 That it was done so artlessly in the past , of course , does not mean that ideas of what is right and wrong should not be dealt with in stories and novels for young people .
6 That other people think the job has been well done is far more important to him , he says , than the fact that it was done by him .
7 The Albanians claimed , improbably , that it was done by Serb supporters of Vojislav Seselj 's Radical Party , a group of far-right nationalists .
8 Copying need not entail the whole of the work , not is it necessary to prove that it was done intentionally .
9 Her partners agreed to this unorthodox therapy on condition that it was done in her spare time and she produced an audit after a year .
10 But in October 1341 , relieved of financial pressure by the desertion of some allies and by the bankruptcy of his Italian bankers , Edward repealed the offending statutes , though it is significant that it was done with the advice and assent of the earls , barons and other wise men .
11 What is curious about Carnot 's work was that it was done using the obsolescent theory that heat was a weightless fluid , driving a steam-engine like water driving a water-wheel .
12 It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level .
13 We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded .
14 It 's rather nice to think that it happened in that way , that it was done overnight .
15 He said he was going to and see that it was done
16 And if we did if we were to consider that you we 'd refuse you on the grounds that it was done without permission , you 'd have a perfect legitimate right to appeal above our heads and the Department of the Environment would rule against you could rule against us as they did with Mr Crendon
17 It was ah no I mean it was you know it 's not that it was Do you mind if I watch the news at six ?
18 In the end I saw that there was no way he would accept this treatment , and that it was doing both of us more harm than good .
19 It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market .
20 Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign .
21 The government could pull in two opposite directions without fully realizing that it was doing so .
22 In fact the erm er the , the actual agenda was far more to do with the price of oil than it was to do with er who ruled Kuwait .
23 It 's better than it was do n't you think so ?
24 Once it was done , it was done and there were no hard feelings on my part .
25 But all the dialogue was taken out and it was done visually .
26 And it was done with an extraordinary vault of achievement .
27 Something must be done , ’ he said , and it was done — to him . ’
28 And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well .
29 And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church .
30 And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin .
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