Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [conj] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could obtain a ‘ Charging Order ’ giving him a charge over Dunn 's house so that when it was sold his debt was paid out of the proceeds . |
| 2 | Almost every interview ended with ‘ I do n't remember much except that it was snowing … ’ or words to that effect . |
| 3 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 4 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 5 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 6 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 7 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 8 | It was the beginning of these automatics , you 've seen these photos on the , on the television where these welders come down and they go in like this , well these was the beginning of that sort of thing because it was worked with a motor and a cam which er er the cam went round and it 'd lift the arm up and when it was went past the , the knuckle it 'd drop down and the speed you them out or the speed you sent them out how fast the arm would go up and down , and that was stitch welding . |
| 9 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 10 | There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose . |
| 11 | Much of the detail contained in this chapter remains as true now as when it was written . |
| 12 | Statham Lodge was built in 1742 in extensive wooded grounds as a country manor house , and remains as graceful and elegant now as when it was built . |
| 13 | It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written . |
| 14 | As the whole system is headed by a man , it is likely that the village has to move more frequently than if it were headed by a woman . |
| 15 | ‘ We had a similar set-up some years ago and if it were reintroduced I think the standard of the women 's game would rise ’ . |
| 16 | Mary felt that it was too much of an intervention , operators and technicians floating around trying to get mikes here and that it was distracting … she decided it might be more useful to try and fix the camera . |
| 17 | Widcombe Manor , with all its crisp carving on pilasters , columns , quoins , swags and urns , is as fresh today as when it was built — perhaps by the Bath mason Thomas Greenaway as it is a fine display of all the decorative details he could do best . |
| 18 | They were going out into the world though none of them knew quite where until it was announced in public at their Commissioning Service it , the Albert Hall . |
| 19 | If we are asking about the growth of political stability in England , and how and when it was established , a multi-layered explanation of different factors — each with their own chronologies — would be required . |
| 20 | Almost as though it were meant … |
| 21 | It 's almost as though it was translated from Esperanto by an artificial intelligence program suffering from dyslexia . |
| 22 | The first task with a coin , as with any other artefact , is to try to establish its date and attribute it to a place of manufacture and authority , since we must know where and when it was made before it can give us any information about the past . |