Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nevertheless if it were handled properly the high-yielding seeds of African maize , upland rice and cassava which are on the way could make a real difference . |
| 2 | It was getting harder every minute she spent with him to pretend an indifference she did n't feel , but she must never let him know how much she loved him . |
| 3 | Developed socialism , nonetheless , did not subsequently figure in the General Secretary 's speeches or in party documents , and it was replaced later the same year by the term ‘ developing socialism ’ ( razvivayushchiisya sotsializm ) , implying a still earlier stage in the transition towards the communist society of the future . |
| 4 | and er if it was applied retroactively the er estimates which were put for the European court |
| 5 | How hard it was to harm even a copy of him ? ’ |
| 6 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 7 | It was a very sunny day and it was made all the more complete by Albert being on duty on the return journey . |
| 8 | It was made all the more intense because it was directed inwards . |
| 9 | It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique . |
| 10 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 11 | I thought it would only take a couple of days to clear up , but it was to take quite a lot longer . |
| 12 | It was said just the way the woman and Brenner had said it , Das Kampflugzeug , like The Event , and Scholz saw Maxim 's puzzlement . |
| 13 | In particular , it was to carry forward the engineering and financial planning of a barrage between Penarth head and Queen Alexandra dock . |
| 14 | By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football . |
| 15 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 16 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 17 | In the second half of this period , under Secretaries of State such as the Duc de Choiseul ( 1758–70 ) and the Comte de Vergennes ( 1774–87 ) it was becoming steadily a more and more effective machine . |
| 18 | It was considered quite an innovation when , after the First World War , the " progressive officials " of R. & R. Clark decided on " a combined " Annual " " in 1921 , " instead of one section having a smoker all on their own and the other a high tea and gossip " , as the ST[ put it . |
| 19 | It was known about a year that they were gon na bump the prices up on karaokes except |