Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv] in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was seen earlier in the book that there are inconsistencies between different components of what may be loosely called the finance function . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All are agreed , however , that it is the nature of the ‘ matter ’ which is important , and it was recognised early in the history of the Hague Conventions on Civil Procedure that some civil or commercial matters could arise in the context of an administrative jurisdiction . |
| 10 | the cuistot , ravitailleur , or homme-soupe , as the ration parties were variously called , in that it was played out in the solitariness of night . |
| 11 | This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete . |
| 12 | The decoration of San Petronio 's main portal became the sculptor 's greatest statement in stone , and it was cast appropriately in the manner of Gothic narrative cycles of Old and New Testament scenes . |
| 13 | It was formulated dogmatically in the catechism and daily celebrated in the memorial of the Passion inherent in the Canonical Hours . |
| 14 | If there was to be an escape , it was to lie not in the ‘ damp gust bringing rain ’ but in ‘ Shantih ’ as the Buddhist 's passing beyond the cycles of creation . |
| 15 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 16 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 17 | Kuwait and the UAE in particular were reported to have exceeded their quotas during 1989 , and it was pointed out in the press that apart from these two countries , together with Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia , the other eight OPEC members were currently producing at or around their ceiling capacity , so that any further additions to output would come from those five major Gulf producers . |
| 18 | Alongside doctrinal debates , it was decided early in the Council that the fathers were to legislate for widespread reform in the Roman Church . |
| 19 | This belief was fostered by the churches , the floors and walls of which were incised with the records of those who had gone before , but it was expressed positively in the family . |
| 20 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 21 | Maybe it was locked away in the studio or maybe it was true he had nothing there . |
| 22 | Yeah , well it , it was locked up in the shed and the shed was |
| 23 | When I first saw it , it was hopping around in the bottom of one of the larger aviaries . |
| 24 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 25 | The transfer of Baker , who in 1988 had resigned as Treasury Secretary in order to take over Bush 's election campaign when it was trailing badly in the polls , had been widely anticipated in the month prior to the announcement . |
| 26 | When I went , seven years ago , it was to fight harder in the battle . |
| 27 | Li Yuan smiled back at her , handsome in his own way , and loving , too — a good man for all his apparent coldness-yet her blood did n't thrill at his touch , nor did her heart race in her chest the way it was racing now in the presence of Tsu Ma . |
| 28 | All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks ’ ( Orwell , 1939 ; 1962 edn , p. 117 ) . |
| 29 | It was laid down in the 1991 Duopoly Review that it should not be allowed to offer entertainment until at least 1997 , when the situation will again be reviewed , and possibly for another three years after that . |
| 30 | It was greeted emotionally in the capital , Sofia , where a 150-strong rally of human rights activists in a rainy park erupted into cheers . |