Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [conj] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 2 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 3 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
| 4 | The the reconciliations suggesting that it was n't a good stock take . |
| 5 | He showed that it was harmless to white blood cells , which are a principal defence against invading microbes , and he and Craddock administered enough to animals to discover that it was remarkably innocuous . |
| 6 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 7 | Her eyes strained but it was not repeated . |
| 8 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 9 | Baxter 's career at Raith Rovers flourished and it was only a matter of time before he became won of Scotland 's most sought after young stars . |
| 10 | It was dominated by members of the former Soviet political system , and observers noted that it was out of step with political and economic realities after the demise of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Two new volumes commissioned while it was still under the Penguin name are Painting and Sculpture in France 1700–1789 by Sir Michael Levey which is an entirely rewritten version of the paintings section of the French eighteenth-century paintings and sculpture volume published in the 1970s and The Pictorial Arts of the West 800–1200 by Reginald Dodwell . |
| 12 | Seven editors rejected it despite several reviewers indicating that it was well written . |
| 13 | Skaters on the rink last night were given only minutes to leave before it was suddenly shut down . |
| 14 | He knew he had to get things done before it was too late . |
| 15 | Once again the movies learnt that it was not only the wealthy and respectable who liked to think that they were being given the best . |
| 16 | The official death toll from the assault was put at 83 , including nearly 70 civilians , but nationalists claimed that it was as high as 600 . |
| 17 | King was pushing him hard , telling him he was no good and such like , when to King 's surprise Smith started to answer back and no one ever did that , so things worsened and it was n't long before they started fighting , an alarming situation on a small cramped footplate . |
| 18 | increase in this year 's burden and inadequate efforts to collect until it was far too late . |
| 19 | It was a long document which took about forty minutes to read and it was not greeted with warm enthusiasm . |
| 20 | Several politicians , including the opposition Social Democrat leader , Hans-Jochen Vogel , urged the East Germans to reform before it was too late . |
| 21 | Cynics argued that it was not in the interests of the nuclear industry to create even more public concern . |
| 22 | In striving for more respectable customers the exhibitors learnt that it was not just the most affluent who liked to be treated with dignity and style . |
| 23 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 24 | However , closer examination of how these deprivations were experienced within care-giving households suggests that it was often carers who bore the brunt of them , while trying to protect the living standards of the disabled or elderly person : |
| 25 | Critics argued that it was merely an attempt by Ford to purchase market share in the UK and that rationalisation would inevitably cause massive job losses . |
| 26 | Other members argued that it was not the EC 's fault if Britain paid more money than others under the terms of membership , and there were bitter arguments before a temporary ( three year ) settlement of the issue was reached , at the Luxembourg summit of April 1980 , when Britain got some repayments . |
| 27 | The move followed a Supreme Court ruling by five votes to four on May 23 in the case of Rust v. Sullivan , upholding the constitutionality of a 1988 ban on abortion counselling , even in cases where women asked for information or where their doctors believed that it was medically necessary . |
| 28 | Rigorous control procedures established that it was neither an artefact of nutritional compromise nor of preoperative bowel preparatory protocols . |
| 29 | One possibility was " to write off the Shah and proceed on the unpalatable consumption that Mosadeq is the indisputable ruler of Persia and the only bulwark against Communism " In the end , however , the prime minister advisers decided that it was almost prudent for Britain to follow the American line . |
| 30 | The members thought that it was technically feasible and , under the right conditions , could benefit the region . |