Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [subord] it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had just published in the New English Weekly ( 28 November ) a poem called ‘ Lines for an Old Man ’ ( to which he added a couplet when it was included in Collected Poems ) . |
| 2 | American and British reviewers gave the film a thumbs-down when it was released at the end of 1972 . |
| 3 | The current governor ran into a storm when it was revealed he had received a 17% pay increase in 1991 . |
| 4 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 5 | It was a common business procedure to keep a single written copy of a deal until it was considered safe for the venture to be announced publicly . |
| 6 | Their reaction was predictable : ‘ One expects them to groan , though I do n't know quite why we should be seeing a piece as it was performed 50 years ago . |
| 7 | He was a sensible and capable boy , an eldest child , so he moved closer , trying not to breathe , and stood steadfastly looking until he was confident of what he had seen : a body , must be a girl because it was wearing a skirt , lying face down , head towards the bottom of the embankment as if she had dived off the top . |
| 8 | Stopped at a village as it was getting dark . |
| 9 | In a letter to the town 's MP Michael Fallon , Mr Freeman said Caldaire would be prepared to consider a move if it was provided with : — A new site , close to the town centre , for Darlington buses . |
| 10 | Editors like pictures and many a mediocre press release has found a place because it was accompanied by an eye-catching or interesting picture . |
| 11 | MAS would propose to attend such a meeting unless it was considered that their presence might in any respect hinder the achievement of objective ( a ) above . |
| 12 | Galecron ( the brand name for the formulation , chlordimeform ) was widely used as a pesticide before it was taken off the market briefly in 1976 after it was found to increase tumours in mice . |
| 13 | Then he read an article somewhere which said that the point of tasting a wine before it was poured was not to see if you liked it , but to make sure that it was n't corked . |
| 14 | ‘ Although we accepted it back in 1931 , it would be a shock if it was seen today , ’ said Kerr . |
| 15 | Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws . |
| 16 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 17 | Freelancer Tihomir Tunukovic , 25 , a Croatian known as ‘ Tuna ’ , was driving the BBC armoured vehicle in a convoy when it was attacked near Travnik as fierce fighting shattered the start of a UN-brokered ‘ Week of Tranquillity ’ . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , because GCSE was planned for a decade before it was implemented , the debate about equivalence started early . |
| 19 | Nothing else was given a chance when it was happening . |
| 20 | Nothing else was given a chance when it was happening . |
| 21 | You would abort a DC if it was decided not to proceed and complete the proposed change . |
| 22 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 23 | Perhaps one of the reasons SunPics resisted the idea , other than the fact that it jeopardises the planet 's whole raison d'etre , is that the deal was reportedly sprung on them a week before it was signed . |
| 24 | That forecast , from party sources and from the intelligence bureau , which has become a wing of the Prime Minister 's office , was crucial in the timing of the election , at least a month before it was expected . |
| 25 | A LUCKY corgi 's remarkable good fortune continues this week just a month after it was saved by a kindly Darlington couple . |
| 26 | ROCK star Elton John 's prized £400,000 Jaguar sports car has been smashed up just a month after it was delivered . |
| 27 | However it was agreed that the setting up of programmes could bring many benefits to a parish if it was seen as a partnership between priests and people . |
| 28 | Night Trap , featuring blood-sucking alien monsters preying on attractive actresses , caused a furore when it was introduced . |
| 29 | A local farmer helped clear a road after it was blocked by a blown down tree . |
| 30 | The idea that p53 may be an essential component of the apoptotic pathway suffered a set-back when it was found that mice without any p53 gene were viable . |