Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African government was reported to be implementing a policy of privatization , in combination with deregulation , which it believed was vital to achieve improved economic performance . |
| 2 | What was there to show for the union 's militancy when no-one could recall a single dispute in which it had been successful ? |
| 3 | The place at which it appeared is relevant . |
| 4 | OK , it 's maybe a little quiet , but there are ways of getting around that if you are a strong player , but I felt that the atmosphere which it created was unique . |
| 5 | The USA had threatened on Oct. 11 to take the EC to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) over the issue , which it claimed was protectionist . |
| 6 | The government also tried to secure the removal from Punjab of four senior civil servants and police officers who it believed were strong supporters of Sharif . |
| 7 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but I was damned if I was going to tell him it had been OK 'd . |
| 9 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 10 | Me ! she wanted to exclaim , because from where she viewed it it had been Ven , with his natural charm , who had been the charming companion . |
| 11 | Even to explain exactly what it meant was difficult . |
| 12 | Some writers , according to Janssen-Jurreit , turned Grimm 's thesis around and took the grammatical gender of a word as evidence of whether what it denoted was masculine or feminine . |
| 13 | ( In June 1989 the PDS had declared a boycott of the Assembly in protest at what it claimed was insufficient opposition access to the media . ) |