Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [conj] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact this put severe restrictions on the committee 's deliberations , and the chairman repeatedly had to advise counsel for both the GMC and the defence that it was not their function to comment on the relative merits or otherwise of alternative forms of medicine . |
| 2 | It may be argued that although the settlor was resident in the United Kingdom within s663(5) he would not be chargeable to tax on the income because it was not remitted to the United Kingdom ( see s663(5) ) . |
| 3 | That provision was placed in the contingency because it was un felt it was unclear at the time , what the effect on costs would be , of the sale of link waste . |
| 4 | You 've said before that you were put off trumpet , and that you were drawn to the guitar because it was the instrument that your parents most feared . |
| 5 | That was because P C firearm , his revolver was still in the holster because he was carrying the shield and it was only as er I started to move forward that P C er came up to the the doorway to cover me whilst I went forward . |
| 6 | After the Man City match we walked back to the Adelphi but it was shut . |
| 7 | He believed the Prince that it was de Craon who had informed him on the Sunday night but how had the Frenchman known ? |
| 8 | Luckily , this was not damaged by the hurricane because it was kept at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh . |
| 9 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 10 | Grandmother , Alice was told , had been very , very proud of the Waterfall when it was new . |
| 11 | He is only the fourth Irishman to win the award since it was introduced in 1951 , and the first since former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan ten years ago . |
| 12 | The league won the award because it was judged to be the association doing the most for its member bands . |
| 13 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 14 | Philip hoisted the sack so it was neat against the wall by the opened one . |
| 15 | Danforth 's efforts to draw up a compromise bill followed the approval of a Democrat-sponsored civil rights bill by the House of Representatives and a pledge by Bush that he would veto the measure if it was endorsed by the Senate . |
| 16 | The Welshman had two chances at the pink to win the last frame of the afternoon but it was Hendry , with pink and black , who went through to play John Parrott in tomorrow 's semi-final . |
| 17 | The thing is , we ordered it went back in the afternoon and it was cut and put on the side , I had to have it did n't I ? |
| 18 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 19 | He alleged that the private sector had received 80 per cent of the money and it was here that loans had failed to be repaid . |
| 20 | It was a at the time it was a I 'd got the money and it was a bit of a speculation . |
| 21 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 22 | While reluctant to divulge exactly the new creative strategy , Hind confirms the forthcoming campaign will drop the old line , ‘ Pickles that bite back ’ devised by Still Price for the brand when it was owned by Brooke Bond . |
| 23 | ( Is n't it even the case that it was an Icelandic Viking who discovered America ? |
| 24 | They were tactful in avoiding any reference to the case and it was Wycliffe who , mellowed by good food and a couple of glasses of Burgundy , brought it up . |
| 25 | That was the case if it was assertiveness or French . |
| 26 | recover the text as it was before the editorial operation began . |
| 27 | The original edition is the text as it was first printed ; most contemporary novels for example exist only in original editions . |
| 28 | My parents lived in the big house and I built a studio and had a whole little place where I could live in the basement and it was very convenient , so David would come round there . ’ |
| 29 | And I 'd look on the field and it was his brother who 'd been tackled . ’ |
| 30 | It did not purport to deal with all the subject matter of the field and it was believed that : |