Example sentences of "a [noun] it was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 As a result it was held that the sellers ' right to repossess the goods did not arise until the expiry of the credit period allowed by the terms .
2 If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village .
3 By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation .
4 on appeal from a taxation it was held that it was wrong to depress hourly rates to justify an unjustifiable mark-up. a mark-up in excess of 100% had to be justified by showing that the case was exceptional .
5 In a way it was flattering that they should take his word .
6 In a way it was challenging and in a way it was totally natural .
7 For nearly a century it was assumed that the primitive vertebrate armour consisted of scales and small polygonal bony plates .
8 When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees .
9 The sugar was identified as either ribose or deoxyribose : for a time it was believed that plant nucleic acids always contained ribose and animal nucleic acids deoxyribose .
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