Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the circumstances then , perhaps it was wisely ordered that I never found a man to form that special relationship . |
| 2 | Perhaps normally it was only hidden and distorted by the combered flesh , the yellowed eyes and teeth . |
| 3 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that Thorn EMI had failed to sell its defence business after trying for five months . |
| 4 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that glamorous Suzannah Dwyer told her devastated husband of her romance 24 hours before Bates went public with the news at a press conference . |
| 5 | Later it was also decided that special 10-day visas would be issued covering the period of the conference . |
| 6 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
| 7 | Six days later it was officially listed as missing and frantic bosses sent out a fax to signalmen : |
| 8 | When the details began to trickle out it was reluctantly conceded that perhaps two Boeing 707 shipments might have been made . |
| 9 | The peasants tore up and burned the copies they received ; and often it was simply ignored and the singing of hymns in Latin continued . |
| 10 | Until then the grist mill existed , but presumably it was then demolished or converted . |
| 11 | The lengthy , complicated and interesting case of Richard of Anstey ( of some two generations before Innocent III 's time ) shows how it was already accepted that the Crown could have no jurisdiction over the solemn sacrament of marriage , though at this stage the canon law of marriage and what actually constituted a legal marriage was extremely fluid . |
| 12 | ‘ You know how it was always said that Wee Charlie was the spit of me ? |
| 13 | NME 's punk enfant terrible Tony Parsons in 1992 : now it 's all Apple Mac and Armani , then it was chiefly amphetamine and aggression |
| 14 | If that did not succeed in stopping him , then it was quietly suggested that the new tenants of the mines could " … pull down the encroaching fences . " |
| 15 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 16 | On Oct. 18 Ghozali emphasized that at least it was now accepted that there should be some " simple and public criteria … the rules of the game " in the demarcation of constituencies . |
| 17 | Indeed it was still argued that determined efforts should be made towards monetary union so that eventually a common currency could be issued by a European central bank . |
| 18 | Yet it was perhaps fitting that Jesus was born in this squalid town . |
| 19 | No longer was Crisp 's action light and forward it was now laboured and sideways as if he was drunk . |
| 20 | However it was soon decided that the time was not right to consider this as well . |
| 21 | The riots continued for three days , climaxing on 7 June when it was finally quelled and the half-mad leader of the Protestant Association Lord George Gordon taken to the Tower . |
| 22 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 23 | Laboratory analysis for the presence of various metals was not routinely carried out , however , until a couple of years ago , when it was suddenly discovered that McDonald 's effluent contained 256 p.p.m. of zinc , a by-product of the glazing process . |
| 24 | Councillor do you think that you as the chairman of the citizens ' charter defunct working party of the citizens ' charter where it was generally agreed that whenever possible letters should be replied to , or at least acknowledged , within five to ten working days . |
| 25 | Penalosa did not arrive in Britain until the weekend , apparently because of visa problems , while McAuley is disgruntled because he wanted the fight to be in Belfast , where it was originally arranged until he suffered an injury . |
| 26 | Why it was ever identified as seaside air is a mystery . |