Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 2 | Darwin 's theory was controversial because it challenged the conventional view that the Creator designed each species , and implied that the human race was just another animal . |
| 3 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 4 | While they were still in the minority one could , on the basis of Rooney 's attitude , accuse them of moral censorship when they opposed those who argued that abortion was unethical because it harms the foetus . |
| 5 | Where he exceeded expectation and all precedents was in making the ban total , but this clearly was just the element which was negotiable and it had the effect of extending the king 's patronage of both church and laity . |
| 6 | He said that he was willing to modify parts of the Driglam Namzha programme and admitted that the current mode of representation in the Tsogdu was imperfect since it gave the Nepalese-dominated districts in the south only 16 seats out of a total of 151 . |
| 7 | Learning , in short , was useful because it enhanced the style and substance of rulership . |
| 8 | This model developed from one that was earlier suggested in relation to slope processes ( Dalrymple , Conacher and Blong , 1969 ) and was important because it introduced the term landsurface catena to refer to a three-dimensional slope extending from interfluve to valley bottom and from the soil/air interface to the base of the soil , with arbitrary lateral dimensions . |
| 9 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 10 | Furthermore , confidence in the exchange value of the dollar was essential since it provided the bulk of the reserve assets in the system : any devaluation of the dollar would give rise to fears that it might be devalued again , and hence there would be a reluctance to hold dollars as a reserve currency . |
| 11 | His wife came in and banged the door and he was furious because it made the china rattle ; he said she just did n't understand . ’ |
| 12 | well , I was disappointed when it showed the league table they were n't even in the top six , but they 're seventh , huh but there 's two , two teams above them have played one more game than them , but then |