Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 2 | The next call from the aircraft was as it crossed the BN having cleared for an ILS approach ; the call said that Invicta 435 was turning outbound again and would report again at the MN beacon . |
| 3 | However , the question was whether it did so in a way that was unfairly prejudicial to Mr Nicholas . |
| 4 | The place was as it had always been , a downland in miniature , a terrain of small green hills on which little dolmens had been raised , pink granite , white marble , a slab or two of grey stone . |
| 5 | Among those aged 46 or more ( approximately those born before the Second World War ) , the relationship is as it seemed from the bivariate table : the more highly educated are more prepared to break the law . |
| 6 | The wall was as it had always been … but at the centre was a black smear , like the blackened smear that might be left by some kind of fire ; as if a blowlamp had been held there . |
| 7 | The main reason Clare did not allow credit was because it complicated her bookkeeping . |
| 8 | One involved the successful launch of its cookery book , Cooking to Please , and the other was because it won the contract to provide in-house catering to the main council sites for second time . |
| 9 | Father would not know what integrity was if it sneaked up and bit his backside . |
| 10 | My father had left , but everything apart from his absence was as it had been . |
| 11 | But that was where the trouble was because it did n't toast properly . |
| 12 | A crucial question about the growth of the welfare state is whether it undermined employers ' control over labour by reducing the compulsion to work . |
| 13 | And that the reality of her love was as it had been in the wood : she should never marry anyone else , whatever happened . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why he drank a lot was because it made this possible . |
| 15 | ‘ The only reason for the Prime Minister to make a statement was if it concerned a matter of grave constitutional importance . |
| 16 | erm because basically the answer was because it meant finding erm making some new cash contribution to a hundred million word National Corpus for the nation , rather than , as it were , ‘ selling it ’ in inverted commas , the Corpus material which Collins , through the Birmingham University already have at their disposal , and the gap between the material that they could contribute to the project in kind and the erm role we wanted them to play just was n't compatible . |
| 17 | Any particular sequence of actual exchanges of Kula valuables serves to manifest this state of indebtedness but at the end of the day the position is as it began . |
| 18 | If the meaning of this oracle was as it seemed , the word ‘ brother ’ had surely a double monastic significance . |