Example sentences of "[conj] it was [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |
| 2 | However , the sea air deteriorated the steel work and it was offered on loan to the MRT where it was cosmetically restored and placed on display . |
| 3 | But , although it was well designed and firmly built , Columbia Square was also grim . |
| 4 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 5 | to me that it would be perverse of us to fall into the trap if we were to do so of endorsing Policy E two and not know that what we were endorsing was in fact what the Secretary of State specifically rejected on the grounds perhaps that it was unduly restricted or detailed or inappropriate for some of those other reasons that are set out in the earlier part of that notice of approval . |
| 6 | One special feature of the materials is the fact that it was thoroughly tried and tested by the authors and their colleagues over a number of years before reaching its present form . |
| 7 | She reported that it was well written and the product of an expert . |
| 8 | A broader assessment of fiscal policy has concluded that it was positively destabilising but , as has been suggested above , this was probably of marginal significance [ Dow , 1964 ; Blackaby , 1978 ] . |
| 9 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 10 | Mrs Maugham did not like this either , on the principle that it was neither use nor ornament . |
| 11 | You 've heard my explanation of the fact that it was poorly worded and I think that is a great shame . |
| 12 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 13 | The Church , the vicar and the Archdeacon and the Bishop all weighed in on Gray 's side so it was quietly dropped and he got his parish here a year later . |
| 14 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 15 | It was great thing to keep it and it was always kept and looked after until the following year . |
| 16 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 17 | He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits . |
| 18 | There was no headstone , but it was neatly tended and there were fresh flowers in a stone jar . |
| 19 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |
| 20 | As originally laid there was also a single line curve from Lower Church Street towards Sutton , but it was rarely used and removed after a few years . |
| 21 | The report , prepared by the department 's inspector-general , Sherman Funk , did not name the country concerned , but it was widely recognized and acknowledged in private by officials that the allegations referred to Israel . |
| 22 | The army undertook to transport film and copy but it was often delayed or lost . |
| 23 | The CIA also added a cautionary reminder that the policies of even so reliable an ally could change unless it was adequately supported and encouraged . |
| 24 | The UK conversion to metric standards removed ambiguities from an area of international affairs because it was widely understood and accepted rather than because of any intrinsic merit . |
| 25 | OZ 28 , the Schoolkids ' Issue , took such a name because it was largely written and edited by children , a fact that was largely ignored during the trial . |
| 26 | But for the average home-owner to find good taste cheaply , displayed informally , and feel certain that he or she was not making a mistake because it was already arranged and coordinated , was quite new to Parisians . |
| 27 | And also , the use of the yellow background , I do n't know , erm whether it was deliberately chosen or whether she just happened to be standing there , but the yellow background makes it stand out . |
| 28 | Four more divisions took place then , before it was finally agreed and ordered to be sent to the House of Commons . |
| 29 | Gradually the business declined , but the mid-1980s saw a dramatic change of use when it was substantially renovated and converted into a restaurant , care being taken to retain the two undershot water wheels and much of the machinery , some of which reputedly dates from the late 18th century . |
| 30 | And nobody had seen her real face for years , for it was heavily rouged and powdered from the top of her eyebrows to where her wrinkled skin disappeared into the bodice of her bright-red velvet evening gown . |