Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
| 2 | If it were given planning permission the store would create 200 jobs . |
| 3 | New information is forced to the front as though it were given information , suggesting that a famous writer can always be assumed to be energetic and successful at school . |
| 4 | Do you ever find out why ‘ smart ’ people pronounce the author 's surname as if it were spelt Pole ? |
| 5 | If that 's a natural as it were adapted effect of the Trivers Willard effect , there are plenty of cultural ones as well . |
| 6 | The class system created to operate the new economy in both the case of capitalism and ancient society leads to such opposition , exploitation , and contradiction that the system for which it was created collapses . |
| 7 | Peg tried to keep her hair tightly braided , but the moment it was done Anna would shake it free . |
| 8 | ‘ It was done man ’ , he told a young associate on It , ‘ We 've done all that . ’ |
| 9 | It was assumed Nicola was among the dead , ’ a Foreign Office spokesman said last night . |
| 10 | Although Hope was the first sportsman to convey this view , it was replicated time and time again by black footballers , athletes and boxers . |
| 11 | a concept which has always been in complicity with a teleological and eschatological metaphysics , in other words , paradoxically , in complicity with that philosophy of presence to which it was believed history could be opposed . |
| 12 | He posed as a successful businessman and South London haulage boss , but it was believed Noye schemed the melting down and sale of the three tons of stolen gold . |
| 13 | It was postmarked Manchester , the paper was poor , and the writing scrawled and dipped across the stained envelope . |
| 14 | It was postmarked Nottingham . |
| 15 | ‘ It was sent south . ’ |
| 16 | So it was organized collecting of |
| 17 | For the next fortnight it was examined section by section . |
| 18 | The UN International Atomic Energy Agency requested a special inspection after it was denied access early this month to two buildings at the Yongbyon nuclear complex . |
| 19 | And it was rewarded faith . |
| 20 | On 3rd November , 1992 it was announced Bishop Crowley had been appointed in succession to Bishop Harris as Bishop of Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | ‘ When I got home on the evening that it was announced Terry Venables had taken out an injunction , one of my children was very nervous and said ‘ Why do n't you throw in the towel ? |
| 22 | The Prime Minister 's dramatic move was virtually a direct order to him to make contact and shortly afterwards it was announced Mr Delors would go to Number 10 at 12.45 pm after speaking at the London School of Economics less than a mile away . |
| 23 | ‘ It was planned ages ago and it was going to be a big do , but I do n't know what will happen now . ’ |
| 24 | It provides , secondly , that long elusive missing link , decision taken on 5 Corps ' signal on 23 May reiterating that it could only carry out its orders to hand over the Cossacks if it was given authorization to use force . |
| 25 | The town of La Rochelle was granted a " commune " , in other words it was given rights of self-government and allowed to elect a mayor instead of having to put up with being ruled by an official imposed upon it from above . |
| 26 | It was given expression not only in the letter by Elder and the Declaration by Henry VIII , but in an intensive burst of propaganda in 1547–8 . |
| 27 | In one concession by the government on Dec. 28 , it was given permission to publish its own newspaper , Rilindja Demokratika . |
| 28 | Established by Congress on Aug. 2 , it was given responsibility for drawing up a plan within 150 days for the " pacification " of the country . |
| 29 | It was given approval after careful consideration by a Government committee on the ethics of genetics which is supervising developments on what is now medicine 's most controversial frontier . |
| 30 | This treaty was enlarged and extended on 24 June 1931 and it was given material expression in Afghan neutrality during the Second World War . |