Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French government tried to save money by accrediting the consul-general it sent to Japan in 1858 also as chargé d'affaires ( a device quite often used outside Europe , mainly in minor Latin-American states where it was expected that political relations would be very much subordinate to commercial ones ) . |
| 2 | AA rosettes were introduced to highlight hotels and restaurants where it was judged that the food could be specially recommended . |
| 3 | ( In 1940 there were only four entries so it was cancelled ) , but presumably this arrangement was unsatisfactory for in 1952 John Chalcraft bought it from the Club for £15 . |
| 4 | So many letters of protest were received from listeners that it was decided to retain one transmission to Europe , at 1230 UTC each day on 9855kHz in the 31 m band . |
| 5 | We had a word in their ears and it was left to the hospital to deal with them , ’ said the police spokesman . |
| 6 | The task of household budgeting was an extremely difficult one and evoked harsh words from husbands if it was mismanaged , even though most husbands probably had little notion of how to manage on the sums they gave their wives . |
| 7 | Pork was the staple diet of most Europeans for many centuries and it was said that the peasants of Britain lived on bread , bacon and beer . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Camilla tape lay dormant in British newsrooms for months until it was published overseas and widely circulated in Britain . |
| 9 | In Amersham , the church meeting of the Lower Meeting House ( Baptist ) heard in 1892 that ‘ several of our young members have been absent from the means of grace [ communion ] for many months and it was resolved that they be visited by two members of the Church ’ . |
| 10 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 11 | After a time there came quick steps and it was opened a crack . |
| 12 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 13 | The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts . |
| 14 | No elections were held in the predominantly Tamil Northern and Eastern Provinces because it was judged that the Tamil Tiger terrorists would have set about disrupting them . |
| 15 | Collectively , however , the service was not well regarded in the schools since it was seen to be enact many of the tendencies referred to earlier . |
| 16 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 17 | Did your group follow these guidelines while it was working ? |
| 18 | As Alan Cantwell , the intermediates manager , pointed out ‘ any spillages can be controlled in minutes ’ and he was also keen to point out that in the 18 months since it was commissioned , ‘ no spillages have occurred ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The Name ’ has been the Holy of Holies to all Jews since it was given to Moses as a special revelation of the divine essence ; all other holinesses merely subserve it . |
| 20 | In February last year , six months after it was fitted , the ‘ halo ’ was taken off . |
| 21 | And Australia 's 12–6 victory over England in the final wo n't be aired in the US until nearly four months after it was played . |
| 22 | As we reported in this space in January , World Cup broadcast managers TSL did the United States ' game a disservice by making a deal with a network which showed the World Cup final almost four months after it was played . |
| 23 | But only months after it was implemented , two ten-year-old boys were charged with murdering two-year-old Jamie Bulger in Liverpool , a crime which , coming hard on the heels of reckless teenage joy-riders , fuelled a public outcry . |
| 24 | Bartlett was particularly concerned with stories , and in his method of serial reproduction people re-told the same story at varying intervals up to several months after it was presented . |
| 25 | A NORTH Wales MP says he is disappointed that Flint post office is to be sold off , only nine months after it was franchised to the private sector . |
| 26 | And so erm we went up , I think it was about six months after it was introduced , and negotiated an increase on the bonus element . |
| 27 | He saw the announcement as presumptuous , with Lineker clearly implying he would be in England 's squad eight months before it was announced . |
| 28 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 29 | It broke up into tiny specks as it was blown across the painting and gave a nice granular texture to the whole surface . |
| 30 | And at the bottom of a deep open pit , up whose ramped sides labour belching trucks , he vividly describes how sea water percolated down through the space above our heads when it was occupied by still-hot lava and how , laden with dissolved sulphide minerals , this heated fluid gushed back to the surface , struck cold sea water and deposited its minerals . |