Example sentences of "[noun] it [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Prudential and Lloyds it was badly hit by the downturn in the market and made big losses . |
| 2 | Over his ears it was completely shaved . |
| 3 | As the letter was in braille it was never broadcast . |
| 4 | As a contest it was neither designed to set the pulses racing nor win converts . |
| 5 | The distance that had to be covered can be seen in the case of the Primitive Methodists : they had no theological college until 1881 and when the new college in Manchester faced collapse it was only saved by the generosity of Sir William Hartley . |
| 6 | Frinton and Walton Floral club : In yesterday 's report of the 41st annual meeting of the Frinton and District Floral Club it was inadvertently left out that Mrs Dorothy Archer was elected as the new president . |
| 7 | Since with rare exceptions gold was so much more valuable than silver it was generally preferred for fine jewellery ( Plate D ) . |
| 8 | 1 patient proved positive but because the patient was an injection drug user undergoing lymph-node biopsy it was reasonably assumed that this was not an occupational exposure . |
| 9 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 10 | Discussions after this uneasy first night were typically intense , with Gergiev working a 16-hour day , as he often does , and by Friday it was all beginning to flow . |
| 11 | To give the settlement greater weight it was also agreed that Henry should take to wife Catherine , Charles 's daughter , whose hand he had sought in negotiation some years earlier . |
| 12 | Jean Revers was horrified at the sight of huge bonfires in the fields at Carno ; there was so much unusable fabric it was just burned . |
| 13 | He still hoped for a settlement , but each time he sent a communication to Bidault it was unaccountably held up by d'Argenlieu . |
| 14 | In this study it was also confirmed that the fast eye movements were associated with passages of vivid dreaming involving tracking of moving images , but the measured direction of movement of the eyes did not correspond very well with reports of direction of movement of objects in the dream . |
| 15 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 16 | This fitted perfectly well into the public service world , but in practice it was considerably diluted for viewers by the networking arrangements of the four ( later five ) larger companies . |
| 17 | Gilat et al studied 68 cases of systemic amyloidosis affecting the gastrointestinal tract , and showed that parenchymal deposition predominated in the muscularis propria in primary or myeloma associated amyloidosis , while in secondary amyloidosis it was mainly distributed in the lamina propria mucosa . |
| 18 | But whereas this in all probability had previously been secret lore imparted through oral tradition , with Evan it was willingly shared and brought into the public domain . |
| 19 | In rural areas it was often labelled the most important crime . |
| 20 | As the Queen had matured , and perhaps become more politically aware , so on the Teheran rumour mill it was reliably asserted that there was a rift between her and the Shah . |
| 21 | In February it was unanimously agreed that Sir Denys should continue as boss until he reached the retirement age of 62 , making him the longest-serving chairman since Sir Paul Chambers , who ran — and dominated — the company from 1960 to 1968 . |
| 22 | In the Government 's manifesto which was sent to every household it was clearly stated that there would be no political union . |
| 23 | In Celtic countries it was always considered a good omen if one of these cats decided to settle in the home . |
| 24 | In January it was successfully used in an attack on Clogher RUC station , which caused extensive damage . |
| 25 | The industry was launched by the support of the common people or the ‘ thick-eared ’ as they were bluntly described , but after the initial breakthrough it was soon realized that the only obvious way of increasing audiences significantly was by overcoming the objections and suspicions of the respectable . |
| 26 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 27 | How well no it was free to a good home it was please take it . |
| 28 | Under such circumstances it was normally assumed that , although the Monarch would probably seek advice in order to discover what persons would be acceptable to the party in power , yet for the final choice she alone was morally and constitutionally responsible . |
| 29 | Over the centuries the border has moved more than a little — for instance in 1917 , Alsace was part of Germany and during the last war it was again occupied by the Germans . |
| 30 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |