Example sentences of "it was [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting to note how difficult it was to ask the questions as well as answer them . |
| 2 | It was seeing the animals . |
| 3 | Pressure from Lord Scarman and others in the House of Lords forced a change on the Government when it was enacting the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 4 | The government announced on June 8 that it was seizing the assets of foreign oil companies in an attempt to ease chronic fuel shortages . |
| 5 | He would have understood , too , the presence at Norman and Angevin courts of clerks whose function it was to extol the deeds of their princes . |
| 6 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 7 | It was to examine the amendments and the additional provisions that were required in the Committee 's report which , the House will recall , was published in June of last year . |
| 8 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 9 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 10 | We erm we had a letter through but it was to test the boilers , because . |
| 11 | She needed to weep , but there was a pain in her throat and it was stopping the tears , so she laughed instead . |
| 12 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 13 | It was to magnify the buildings and their symbolism . |
| 14 | It was given no powers in relation to those who are not so qualified , nor did the Medical Act 1858 prohibit the practice of medicine without registration . |
| 15 | He said there was a person , famous throughout the land , whose job it was to visit the halls where films were being shown and to describe the films to the local people . |
| 16 | It was to join the Brownies |
| 17 | They made friends with the families who stayed and who bought milk and eggs from them , and they said more than once how good it was to see the lights on across the river again . |
| 18 | With more ideological education and propaganda , it was hoped the students could be kept in line . |
| 19 | A spokesman for the Shetland Fishermen 's Association said it was hoped the grounds would escape damage as herring do not spawn until August and September . |
| 20 | The Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne lived a tortured sex life , heavily influenced by the beatings he received at Eton ( where it was said the boys were required to sprinkle eau de cologne on themselves before the canings began ) . |
| 21 | Settled down with a cup of tea Robert explained how easy it was to roam the databases of Britain collecting details of people 's private lives . |
| 22 | It was amazing the bargains one could find . |
| 23 | The government now denied that it was granted the terms it received under the Large Combustion Plant Directive on the basis that it would be fitting FGD so it could continue to burn high-sulphur coal . |
| 24 | It was transporting the wagons ? |
| 25 | A final decision is expected in the next two weeks , although the Government yesterday refused to confirm or deny reports that it was to scrap the registers . |
| 26 | Endless afternoon teas when we discussed giving mugs of hot chocolate to needy children at Christmas time or whose turn it was to do the flowers in the Maternity Hospital . |
| 27 | They were soon identified as potential customers by tradesmen , bankers , building societies , and insurance companies , then by streetcar and railway companies , by the publishers of newspapers , journals , and cheap novels , and finally by a whole army of showmen whose task it was to inveigle the masses into circuses , fairgrounds , peepshows , roller-skating pavilions , theatres , and sporting fixtures . |
| 28 | In that case , Greenwich announced that it was to adopt an admissions policy which , in relation to over-subscribed schools , gave preference to those resident in Greenwich over those resident outside the borough . |
| 29 | The army said it was checking the reports . |
| 30 | Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned . |