Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [conj] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future of the Cotswold line from Oxford to Worcester , has been in some doubt following a leaked BR report which revealed that it was to have no further investment , despite its pre-war signalling and rustic stations . |
| 2 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 3 | On 11 September the German Standortkommandantur , which had been set up in the Piazza Garibaldi to administer the city of Parma , issued a series of orders , one of which stated that it was forbidden for civilians to have guns and that looting would be punishable by death . |
| 4 | In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August . |
| 5 | Mr Bakker is the fourth PTL official to be convicted in connection with the scandal , which began after it was revealed that he had an affair with a former church secretary , Jessica Hahn , using PTL funds to pay her hush money afterwards . |
| 6 | Both Mr. Beloff and Mr. Richards , who appeared as amicus curiae , sought to extract from this passage , and from a comparable passage at p. 175B–C of that judgment , a proposition that the judicial duty to ensure that only fit and proper persons appear before them as barristers , which they perform through the machinery of the arrangements they have made , at their direction , with the Inns of Court , is somehow different in kind from the judicial duty , which existed until it was taken away by Parliament in 1990 , of determining who had the right of audience in different courts : see Abse v. Smith [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 7 | Among the numerous artifacts uncovered was a miraculously preserved carpet dating from the 5th century BC , which survived because it was frozen in a block of ice after early grave robbers had broken the seal and allowed water into the tomb . |
| 8 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 9 | But you used the one of us on top of the aircraft carrier on the Hudson which looked like it was taken down Strathclyde Park |