Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse 's nostrils were vastly inflated and it was panting rhythmically as its hooves struck the hard ground . |
| 2 | The publications taken were constantly changing and it would appear that " Punch " was the only one which was taken throughout the whole period . |
| 3 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 4 | The Bishop of London , Tait , agreed , adding that ‘ Any pity called up for the unfortunate Charles I was likely to be dissipated by statements in the services which were so exaggerated that it was likely when read to turn the staunchest Royalist into a parliamentarian . ’ |
| 5 | But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’ |
| 6 | The contents of the discussion were not revealed but it can safely be assumed Border made it clear he felt Marsh , dropped along with Mark Waugh , should have been spared , not least because of his loyal service . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the practice ratings from Study 1 were not recorded so it is not possible to test this hypothesis . |
| 8 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 9 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 10 | The interviews were already published when it was discovered that he was an impostor . |
| 11 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | The numbers attending remained very small for a number of years — three children were once expelled because it was found they could hear . |
| 13 | The Regional Council 's position as regards the implications of the appeal proposal on education were clearly recorded when it advised the District Council of its views on the appeal application ( ref LRC Written Submission para 6 a ( iii ) . |
| 14 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 15 | Deductions were often made if it was considered that the widow had overspent on her husband 's funeral , or if mothers were not keeping their houses sufficiently clean . |
| 16 | And girls were n't employed because it was n't decent for them to be concerned with sex cases . |
| 17 | ‘ But you were n't supported and it did n't work … so what have you achieved ? ’ she asked sarcastically . |
| 18 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 19 | We thought you were n't coming but it 's wonderful you got here . ’ |
| 20 | A soviet ( or governing council ) representing each of the twelve nahijes ( districts ) within the pashalik was established , but its powers were vaguely defined and it became an instrument which Karadjordje could use or ignore as he felt fit . |
| 21 | If they were unable to describe it they were then asked whether it was of a particular type . |
| 22 | Only from the 1760s and 1770s onwards were there signs that it might be achieved . |
| 23 | No proposals were actually adopted but it was agreed to examine them further in working groups and at the fourth ASEAN summit due to be held in Singapore on Jan. 27-28 , 1992 . |
| 24 | The death of Jock Lewes was keenly felt and it meant that Stirling was down to only one officer besides himself , assuming that Fraser was missing . |
| 25 | This was successfully accomplished and it will be most interesting to follow developments . |
| 26 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 27 | He says that his face was badly burnt and it 's meant he has n't been able to take part in his favourite game of rugby . |
| 28 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 29 | The need for war , then , was fairly generally accepted , although it was widely recognized that it brought destruction and death . |
| 30 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |