Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 2 | When the job is over , I then write a brief summary appraisal , as it were on his performance . |
| 3 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 4 | The work of the craftsman is to realise an inner idea in a way that is beautiful , useful and enduring , and as his work is the object of his satisfaction and delight ( " if it were in his power to produce an effect which would know and love him , this he would assuredly do " ) , so man is created for God who alone satisfies his nature . |
| 5 | I should happily give way — if it were in my power to do so — to give them the opportunity to dissociate themselves from that appalling motion . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish it were in my power to give you a faithful picture of this famed city of two years standing . |
| 7 | She wrote to the organisers : ‘ If it were in your mind to approach any B-division celebrities , I should say I shall be taking Jeffrey with me . ’ |
| 8 | The moor was all round the saucer in which Chesney lay but the best views of it were from his house , the last house before the road curved round . |
| 9 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 10 | It was past her bedtime anyway . |
| 11 | It was past their supper time already , and the first question that arose was whether Jennifer should sit at table with them . |
| 12 | By the mid-1930s it was past its peak , but it played a prominent part in the agitation which led to the suspension of the National Government 's unemployment assistance board scheme early in 1935 . |
| 13 | ‘ It was outside my experience — I refused to recognise it . |
| 14 | It , it was off your drawing , yes . |
| 15 | It was about her mark . |
| 16 | Diana knew it was about her father . |
| 17 | I suppose it was about his mother . |
| 18 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was about your father-in-law 's business affairs that I wanted to talk to you . |
| 19 | It was about our childhood , so you were in it . |
| 20 | Erm not it was n't about your dad , it was about my birthday cos |
| 21 | ‘ It was through their trust that I was in this unique position to walk among them , and I felt I owed it to them not to let them down . ’ |
| 22 | I have listed these processes because it was through their operation that Tyneside 's industrial proletariat was created . |
| 23 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 24 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 25 | It was through my convictions that I established a firm friendship with the late Sir Hugh Fraser , and an unexpectedly harmonious relationship with Auberon Waugh and members of his Private Eye banditry : a relationship which , as I have said , strangely has remained unaffected despite my own less than friendly exchanges with that periodical . |
| 26 | It was through his sister Sarah that Lear gained a practical introduction to the world of illustration , and to the Zoological Society . |
| 27 | It was through his West Indian interests that his career most obviously spanned the great divide of 1660 . |
| 28 | Ben Adhem said , ‘ Write me as one that loves his fellow men. , And it was through his caring and concern for other people that Ben showed his love for God . |
| 29 | It was through his partnership with Bertie Fisher that Meeke 's Opel connections were established in the early Eighties and when the Spanish arm of the operation needed assistance he was asked to take on a supervisory role . |
| 30 | It was through his father 's title that John Dalrymple was designated Master of Stair . |