Example sentences of "[verb] it was [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 2 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 3 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 4 | McGregor , who had been approached by a worried neighbour , admitted making use of the computer but claimed it was on legitimate police business . |
| 5 | When the vet did ring it was with bad news . |
| 6 | Ray Noorda , chairman of Novell Inc , and Unix System Laboratories Inc chief Roel Pieper visited Japan at the end of last week in an attempt to reassure shareholders and customers of their respective organisations , already , if not soon to become , joint shareholders , that life was proceeding as normal and that the future of Unix as the industry has known it was in good hands . |
| 7 | The Doctor looked away from Bernice for a moment , and she could have sworn it was with genuine remorse . |
| 8 | She knew it was with good reason that she had brought her papers back across the lake that day . |
| 9 | It seemed that people thought it was about kinky sex ; at best it was taken as the onset of senility . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 11 | They thought it was for real , and panicked . |
| 12 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 13 | However , he did not think it was of formidable enough dimensions even to link the industrial towns of the North , let alone spearhead a wider rising . |
| 14 | Only in Britain would eminent , highly educated people , leaders of society , heads of educational institutions , ministers , etc. etc. , think it was worth mocking modern art . |
| 15 | … or losing 7–1/7–2 to sheff weds in a mel sterland testimonial ( I think it was for fat mel ) |
| 16 | I did n't think I like the cut of it very much or , I think it was to tight . |
| 17 | In the upland region an old-established pastoral economy and the local industry that supported it was in sharp decline . |
| 18 | Yet at the end of the eighties the only government money paid to BR was the rapidly dwindling subsidy paid to Provincial and Network SouthEast sectors to support loss-making services and talk continued of ‘ bustitution ’ , however ridiculed it was by professional transport executives . |
| 19 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 20 | Erm the referee said it was for offside I mean I 'm not I 'm not arguing about we 'll we 'll think about that after the game . |
| 21 | The police did n't say it was for public speaking . |