Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They proposed that it was a function of the mean payout ratio , the predicted short-term earnings and long-term dividend growth rates , the variability of the historical earnings growth rates and the historical earnings growth rate . |
| 2 | Stirling shouted that it was every man for himself . |
| 3 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 4 | Although Laura had great faith in Gwenny , she never doubted that it was a mother 's place to be with her child . |
| 5 | I found that it is the planning of this , that it 's also choir rehearsals , and certain school activities that do clash . |
| 6 | Most other critics found that it was a case of the novelty of a labour film and the intensity and charm of Muni 's acting being overwhelmed by melodrama , but there was at least one critic who saw Black Fury as a step forward . |
| 7 | After lobbying by the company ( the only extant reference to the matter ) Gloucester found that it was a matter of mutual rancour , of no danger to the crown , and remitted it to the goldsmiths . |
| 8 | On the first morning , after a night in a Lycée bed , they all went to a preliminary reception at the Hôtel de Ville : Clara went , politely willing , but when she got there she found that it was a gigantic , milling , stifling insult . |
| 9 | At one of the major colonies of black-headed gulls in northern England , researchers found that it was a good year if fifteen per cent of the eggs that were laid produced fledged young . |
| 10 | They had carried the body to the nearest house , and found that it was a good-looking young man about twenty-five years old . |
| 11 | When we got there we found that it was a diesel day with three Class 14's , a Class 40 and one Class 03 . |
| 12 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgend ( Mr. Griffiths ) said , when Alaric the Goth attacked the Roman empire in 410 AD , he found that it was a piece of cake to sack Rome because the use of lead piping had softened the brains and determination of the Roman establishment . |
| 13 | After lobbying by the company ( the only extant reference to the matter ) Gloucester found that it was a matter of mutual rancour , of no danger to the crown , and remitted it to the goldsmiths . |
| 14 | so it looks like you 've got future there , then you go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot back now you 've got something slightly different there here you had der der der der der you said okay , future , then you went back there and you found that it was a present tense in English , right , but you needed a future in French because the whole thing is future . |
| 15 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 16 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 17 | Gong et al reported that it was the congeners in alcohol and not alcohol itself that produced symptoms in asthmatic patients . |
| 18 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 19 | As the end credits rolled and the title came up , she realized that it was a dramatized retelling of the Martian invasion of Earth circa 2090 . |
| 20 | Let us go back to the moment you found the body , the moment you realized that it was a body . |
| 21 | year but the end result came when the two children did get took into foster care erm , that 's when I realized that it was a problem and I had to do something about it . |
| 22 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 23 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 24 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 25 | Mr Editor Gilbert , on learning that I was going to fly one for Pilot , opined that it was a ‘ bloody awful aeroplane ’ . |
| 26 | The council agreed that it is a matter for concern that the rates have increased by so much and I have been asked to write to Wyre Borough Council about this and to ask if they would consider paying the whole of the rates for public halls in rural areas as I understand some District Councils do . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 28 | I had no authority to do this , but agreed that it was a sensible thing to do . |
| 29 | All agreed that it was a trick and that it was very silly of the people who made it . |
| 30 | Whittle agreed that it was a typical Mumby joke . |