Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 2 | The Regional Council 's position as regards the implications of the appeal proposal on education were clearly recorded when it advised the District Council of its views on the appeal application ( ref LRC Written Submission para 6 a ( iii ) . |
| 3 | Fundamental to the stability of a system of taxation is the level at which people are asked to pay , and the switch from local to central taxation achieved by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in his Budget was widely welcomed because it recognised that the tax burden had become too high for any system to sustain , and that is why he took steps to reduce it . |
| 4 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 5 | The government responded to this pressure : the Bill differed in some respects from the White Paper , and the Bill itself was constantly amended as it went through Parliament . |
| 6 | The prosperity which all these minor towns reveal occasionally has a local explanation : Todi 's neighbour , Assisi , was greatly enhanced when it became the burial place of St Francis and a centre of pilgrimage . |
| 7 | ‘ Another device fell onto a huge pile of clay , and was only extinguished after it had fired the clay solid . ’ |
| 8 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 9 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 10 | Once this conventional world had been established , it was easily recreated until it became traditional . |
| 11 | General relativity , on the other hand , was largely ignored because it seemed too complicated mathematically , was not testable in the laboratory , and was a purely classical theory that did not seem compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 12 | There was no tax invoice because the firm was not registered when it billed for the work . |
| 13 | The first note was not paid when it fell due . |
| 14 | The issue of selecting an NSF candidate for the ( as yet unannounced ) presidential elections was not resolved when it emerged that any candidate would be required to endorse Roman 's programme . |
| 15 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 16 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
| 17 | French public opinion was enraged by the attempt and was further inflamed when it became known that Orsini 's bombs had been made in Birmingham and the conspiracy hatched in London . |
| 18 | Its authority was quickly established when it called off the demonstration called by the meeting of radicals on 8 October . |
| 19 | There were thirty-two plays in the Wakefield cycle , or Towneley cycle as it was also known when it formed part of the library of Towneley Hall in Burnley . |
| 20 | The government has managed , by and large , to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992 . |
| 21 | The decision , condemned by some observers as unconstitutional , was reportedly made after it emerged that the suspended ministries had failed to implement the Dec. 10 ban on Hindu religious groups . |
| 22 | The decision was reportedly taken after it became clear that the French Disneyland would not make its expected profit this year . |
| 23 | If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed . |
| 24 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 25 | The train was n't stopping until it got to London ; there were other people in the carriage and surely these men would n't dare try anything here , now . |
| 26 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 27 | Taken together with the fact that this region is required for DNA-PK directed phosphorylation of c-Jun and , since Ser-249 of c-Jun was initially identified because it contains homology to sites of DNA-PK phosphorylation in other proteins , these data strongly suggest that the DNA-PK phosphorylates c-Jun at Ser-249 . |
| 28 | The East Bank was consistently preferred when it came to investment , for irrigation , land reclamation , electricity , transport and communications . |
| 29 | In 1978 , when the factory moved , the union was officially dissolved although it continued to function secretly . |
| 30 | The plane was completely destroyed when it hit a mountain in bad weather as it was trying to land . |