Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has included the shut-down of the Meat Research Institute in Bristol which " had a worldwide reputation , and people in other countries were dumbfounded when it closed " according to Waites . |
| 2 | The political ramifications of the case were highlighted after it emerged that two of the four co-operatives implicated were owned by members of Sharif 's ruling IDA and that substantial loans had been extended to a number of IDA politicians , including Sharif himself . |
| 3 | Tilda , an expert mudlark , retrieved most of the purple plastic , but the pieces were broken and it was hard to see what could be done with them . |
| 4 | The women were trapped and it was impossible to get them out . |
| 5 | Seacat Scotland 's plans were disclosed when it sent an information pack on the jobs to Barbara Fonte Garcia , of Dalbeattie , Dumfries and Galloway . |
| 6 | Turbo-generators were added and it now also generates electricity . |
| 7 | There was a delicious ice-cold soup with tostones , croutons , chopped pimiento and chopped cucumber , which were added as it was served . |
| 8 | In short , it was claimed that meditators ' moral senses were enlivened and it helped them ‘ become better Christians ’ . |
| 9 | A number of options were considered but it was decided that continuity and experience were important and the services provided by Westminster Strategy were highly regarded and ought to continue . |
| 10 | The meeting comes after months of turmoil at Ferranti , from the discovery of a series of bogus contracts at the International Signal subsidiary , most of which were committed before it was bought by Ferranti in 1987 . |
| 11 | ‘ Greatly simplified calculations were done but it was realised that they left out many important factors and were therefore quite unreliable . |
| 12 | For soldiers , if it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . |
| 13 | ‘ If it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . ’ |
| 14 | Elsewhere Papinian shows that where a disposition was defective the same interpretative principles were applied whether it was a trust or a legacy . |
| 15 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 16 | Several people were presented and it would have been nice to have been closer . |
| 17 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 18 | In the event , few attempts at car restraint were made because it was assumed that the money would be found for reconstruction , but in the crisis-ridden post-1960s British economy , available funds never approached the levels needed for a widespread application of environmental area principles . |
| 19 | The public were promised that it would be introduced after the war ( it never was ) and if successful would be followed by tax changes and other ideas such as tax credits to regulate demand . |
| 20 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 21 | At least , most of the Board were and the rest of us were persuaded that it would be no bad thing , without , I confess , being precisely clear what we meant by that blessed word . |
| 22 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
| 23 | ‘ We were told that it was going to be arranged for Barry to sing ‘ The White Cliffs of Dover ’ with Mrs Thatcher at the end of the show . |
| 24 | Sermons and prayers stressed the patience , humility and virtue of the English king : when people were exhorted to pray for the great expedition which Edward , together with the Black Prince and the duke of Lancaster , led to France in 1355 , they were told that it was setting out ‘ to procure peace ’ . |
| 25 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 26 | When we asked Russian officials whether the beef was having any impact on meat prices in Russia , we were told that it was not . |
| 27 | When that matter was put to the Home Office and the Department of the Environment , we were told that it was for the local authority to sort out the matter with the local police force . |
| 28 | That is because they were told that it would not happen . |
| 29 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 30 | The building has been the subject of controversy ever since locals were told that it was to be turned into a clinic for twenty six convicted sex offenders . |