Example sentences of "[adj] it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this it was carried out by the Directorship-general of Fine Arts , Academies and Libraries , part of the Ministry of Education . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 3 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
| 4 | Dale 's new owners , Sir David Guyler , Eric Dring , and Colin Speed who established the company in the early nineteen seventies it was taken over by the multinational Beaufort Group in nineteen eighty nine and by September this year the workforce had been cut from two hundred to just a hundred and ten . |
| 5 | By the late 1970s it was operating out of two headquarters buildings in the City , warehouses in north London and Milton Keynes and a packaging factory in Hertford . |
| 6 | We wondered , out loud and quite often , what was going on and how long it was going on for , but by the end of May we knew that something was definitely in the wind . |
| 7 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 8 | But , playing through the amp , I began to realise how daft it was sitting up in my bedroom by myself with it , trying to work my way through tunes . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , financial problems continued to plague the paper , and in 1961 it was taken over by East African Newspapers Ltd , the Nairobi publishers of the Daily Nation , who wanted to get into the Tanzanian market . |
| 10 | The massive amount of activity by developer builders after the mid-1960s , which continues to this day , can not be described as unplanned , given that it was carried out in relation to land-use planning and the provision of infrastructure . |
| 11 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 12 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 13 | In 1974 it was squeezed out of the market by an Anglo-French-German enterprise , United Reprocessors . |
| 14 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |