Example sentences of "it [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of selective pressure towards co-operation group awareness , and identification was so strong , and the period over which it operated was so extended ( at least three million years , and probably even longer ) , that it can hardly fail to have become embedded to some measure in our genetic makeup ( 1977 : 209 , emphasis ours ) . |
| 2 | The helplessness of that figure and the hopelessness it conveyed was always there . |
| 3 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 4 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 5 | Any noise it made was lost in the wind . |
| 6 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 7 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 8 | The difference it made was internal . |
| 9 | An extra charge of one shilling ( 5p ) was made for permission to view the house , and the £5,500 it made was added to the Queen 's charitable fund . |
| 10 | Any sound it made was lost in the green murk . |
| 11 | Von Schelting 's most powerful criticism was that the sociology of knowledge undermined its own basis — it was apparently making a claim for its own truth that it argued was not available for knowledge in general . |
| 12 | The army refused to become involved in what it maintained was an ‘ industrial ’ strike and , anyway , it was incapable of running the electricity industry . |
| 13 | During the 1960s the scheme was widened to include more categories of workers and the financial assistance it provided was also considerably raised . |
| 14 | OK , it 's maybe a little quiet , but there are ways of getting around that if you are a strong player , but I felt that the atmosphere which it created was unique . |
| 15 | It might be considered surprising that the firm refused to supply British Rail with a copy of its report prior to publication , even though much of the information it used was obtained in its capacity as consulting engineers to the BR board in relation to a planning appeal for a location to the north end of the King 's Cross site . |
| 16 | And in German , the German for , for it used was das es . |
| 17 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 18 | After the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the new session of the Stormont parliament , it criticised the failure of the Government to give any commitment on a universal franchise and the Special Powers Act , but the only action it proposed was a low-key educational programme . |
| 19 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 20 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 21 | The panel brought to last year 's assembly a modest am amendment of the nineteen sixty three act which it believed was theologically sound pastorally sensitive and which would provide a degree of flexibility . |
| 22 | The South African government was reported to be implementing a policy of privatization , in combination with deregulation , which it believed was vital to achieve improved economic performance . |
| 23 | I also went on to say that while that policy would be continued , the council always had and always would reserve it 's right to challenge any decision that it believed was legally flawed . |
| 24 | Whether the attention it received was due to its classic looks or the fast drying coating of mud which reached on to the roof was difficult to judge , though I suspect , it was the butch overcoat which caught so many eyes . |
| 25 | Behind the glass as it filled was Luke 's magnified smile . |
| 26 | The tug when it came was much gentler than he had imagined it would be . |
| 27 | His voice when it came was flat ; clear but emotionless . |
| 28 | The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows . |
| 29 | The very idea of this lot going back whence it came was ridiculous and the impression was reinforced as I began to push . |
| 30 | The drink when it came was hot milk laced with whisky , and Robbie pulled a wry face . |