Example sentences of "[prep] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of it were stored on a floppy disk . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the first Gazette had been completed but Carrie and Willie were the only two with any staying power which meant that two-thirds of it were filled with Carrie 's words and Willie 's pictures . |
| 3 | Yes , your garden-master was only a puppet , and yes , the mechanics of it were built by others in Spiderglass . |
| 4 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 5 | Popular buys among those who intended to spend part of it were headed by household furnishings ( 28% ) , a new car ( 23% ) , gifts to children ( 20% ) and travel ( 19% ) ; only 5% splashed out on a home extension . |
| 6 | During that eight years ' task , those at the heart of it were learning themselves how to pray more deeply and contemplatively . |
| 7 | Both sides of it were covered in labels of all colours and shapes with the names of towns and countries on them . |
| 8 | Tracking and balancing it , none of it were done . |
| 9 | The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres . |
| 10 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |
| 11 | The Cathedral at Angers is a good example of the massive , domical building of Anjou , though parts of it were rebuilt in Gothic times . |
| 12 | Each song was repeated a number of times until the audience had learned the tune , then copies of it were offered for sale . |
| 13 | Rather , the Commission looked in the direction of devolution of power of some sort ( though the members of it were divided as to what sort ) . |
| 14 | In 1987 , libel damages of £450,000 were awarded against a Greek newspaper , although only fifty copies of it were circulated in Britain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 17 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 18 | There was an interesting sequel to this in 1967 when a book written by Len Deighton was published and sections of it were serialized in the Sunday Times . |
| 19 | As young men the members of it were apprenticed to practised warriors , taught the profession of arms ; even as children they learned to follow the chase , to hunt boar and stag and wolf , not to mention all the lesser game of the forest ; they learned how to handle and appraise a hawk ; and in the evenings , in their father 's halls , or in the halls of other great lords to whom they had been sent to learn their profession , they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess . |
| 20 | Immediately underneath the stone lay a cist containing several rude cinerary urns , and alongside of it were found a gold fibula and an armilla of a peculiar type made from a broad band of gold beaten out so as to form a convex centre , on each side of which was a fluted ornamental border , and a raised rim returned at the edge . " |
| 21 | They revealed awesome finishing power on that occasion — and most of it was personified by D.J . |
| 22 | According to the council , the garden was indeed large but much of it was paved ; the property was in an urban area where the speed limit was 30mph ; the shops were located 700 yards from the property ; |
| 23 | The top of it was shrouded in mist and wind , and in this weather it would be an icy , treacherous climb . |
| 24 | Some of it was broken . |
| 25 | What there was of it was represented in Parliament by Labour MP Robert Maxwell . |
| 26 | The Cathedral apse provides a bastion in the city walls and this part of it was built 1088–91 . |
| 27 | As organist and piano teacher most of it was composed for performance at some ritual , often in church — it conveys not only the solemnity of the occasion but also the spaciousness of the building and the sound of the organ with its vast range of tonalities . |
| 28 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 29 | Remember , when the sterling was redeposited with the UK bank only 90 per cent of it was credited to the NBPS ; 10 per cent was deposited in the name of the overseas bank and is not included in normal definitions of the money supply . |
| 30 | But in this case most of it had n't been touched since 1934 , and part of it was requisitioned for troops during the war . |