Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anglican chant is a distinctive way of singing the Psalms and it would be a pity if it were lost altogether in the parishes . |
| 2 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 3 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 4 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 5 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 6 | The old studio system which had produced good writers , good directors , good stars , good movies , was breaking up and bits of it were sliding all over the ancient and sacred lots . |
| 7 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 8 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 9 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 10 | At first glance , late Anglo-Saxon political history portrays a state riven by internal discord and highly vulnerable to external enemies : only fifty years after the Danish conquest it was subjugated again by the Normans . |
| 11 | ‘ So what do we do ? ’ asked Jimmy , looking back at the cabinet where it was wedged tight at the office door . |
| 12 | It was getting through to the readers on a human level that counted . |
| 13 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 14 | It was created early in the twelfth century and in local marble , with the consequence that , far from being eroded , it has become smooth and polished , making a strong contrast with the worn stonework in which it is set . |
| 15 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 16 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 17 | It was illustrated yesterday by the pairing of Nick Faldo with John Daly ; Boycott batting with Botham , Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy . |
| 18 | It was seen earlier in the book that there are inconsistencies between different components of what may be loosely called the finance function . |
| 19 | When it was done before in the republic , you wan na quote history , you wan na quote it accurately , it was done with the agreement of a sovereign people . |
| 20 | and all was accurately , now if it was done really with the hope that the council and winder would get together and come to some decent arrangement and at the other side of er Lancaster er down by the |
| 21 | The the forecast of there was nine thousand on the er bypass when it was completed fully to the A fifty nine . |
| 22 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 23 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 24 | Shaped like a T-square , it was placed horizontally with the crosshead laid towards the east in the forenoon , thereby casting a shadow along the stem which was graduated with marks for six hours . |
| 25 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 26 | And then it was taken out and er dripped and cleaned , and then it was hung up in the kitchen to dry , and that was how the hams were done . |
| 27 | but erm er I think that er that picture I borrowed , I mean with her permission of course , erm and er I think it was hung up in the bathroom or somewhere , which was not the best place for a photograph to be really . |
| 28 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 29 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 30 | His timing was good , though it was determined mainly by the exigencies of the situation . |