Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all these inquiries the main conclusions were that abuse of patients where it existed was the consequence of acute shortages of staff , overcrowding and lack of facilities for patients and that general neglect pervaded in subnormality hospitals . |
| 2 | I also went on to say that while that policy would be continued , the council always had and always would reserve it 's right to challenge any decision that it believed was legally flawed . |
| 3 | Von Schelting 's most powerful criticism was that the sociology of knowledge undermined its own basis — it was apparently making a claim for its own truth that it argued was not available for knowledge in general . |
| 4 | The the last time that it happened was er on it must be maybe twenty year ago or so . |
| 5 | The reason that it became discredited on the scale and at the speed that it did was due to the efforts of the gentleman who introduced it , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) . |
| 6 | The only thing that it did was to clarify the legality of its position . |
| 7 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 8 | The tug when it came was much gentler than he had imagined it would be . |
| 9 | His voice when it came was flat ; clear but emotionless . |
| 10 | The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows . |
| 11 | The drink when it came was hot milk laced with whisky , and Robbie pulled a wry face . |
| 12 | I enjoyed that drive , and when it ended was more anxious than ever to shake some sense into Margaret . |
| 13 | Behind the glass as it filled was Luke 's magnified smile . |
| 14 | Russian opposition to the concession even as it stood was defused by presenting the Persian text to the Russian delegation when the Russian 's translator was known to be out of town . |
| 15 | But Greenpeace noted that the British government 's willingness to sign the convention as it stood was a fundamental shift in policy in that it had agreed for the first time to the elimination in principle of dangerous chemicals . |
| 16 | And in German , the German for , for it used was das es . |