Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For long it was thought that wet spraying turned the buds to a wet mash , and therefore dusting each individual bud was necessary . |
| 2 | In 1718 a system of intendants on the French model was established ; and though it did not survive for long it was revived in 1749 with marked success . |
| 3 | Shortly after 7.30pm it was announced that no support band would appear and Toni would be on stage at 9.00pm , the audience having to combat frustration and anticipation , for over an hour and a half , intensified sales at the two bars rapidly . |
| 4 | Nothing in the final results leads you to sense of how it was achieved . |
| 5 | Those that survived — particularly those that both survived and thrived , as in ancient Egypt — have left us ample evidence both of the danger , and of how it was met . |
| 6 | The TVS producer had had the idea of asking Hyacinth to play the role of ‘ guest interviewer ’ and had spent an hour or so that morning , showing her something of how it was done . |
| 7 | The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the Forest fell into the background of national history : there are infrequent glimpses of how it was affected by the general lawlessness and violence of the times . |
| 9 | They show not what was known about the event , but only some aspects of how it was talked about ’ . |
| 10 | Greenpeace has little idea of how radioactive the waste was in the four incidents described , or of how it was sealed in protective casing . |
| 11 | It just seemed to form the basis of how it was going to be . |
| 12 | Mauchline Ware , as it is known , irrespective of where it was made , was produced for over 100 years and in that time millions of items must have been manufactured and distributed around the world . |
| 13 | As the ball fell between the two Scots , Karlheinz Riedle arrived with clear knowledge of where it was going and quickly dispatched it . |
| 14 | Later when we were enjoying a beer with the station commander were we nearly disposed of when it was announced that the Stirling had clobbered a Coles crane , an ambulance , several minor vehicles and the CO 's Humber . |
| 15 | Later , the bowl was sold by the Silberysen family , and was next heard of when it was acquired by the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 16 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 17 | It helped with how it was presented and may be cutting down on what was presented . |
| 18 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 19 | By the shore the driftwood was still travelling upriver , but in midstream it was gathering way headlong in the other direction . |
| 20 | Before long it was realised that the nutritious liquid was excellent feeding for pigs and , although pig-keeping had been unpopular in the county until then , almost every Ayrshire dairy farm began to keep a few of them . |
| 21 | Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste . |
| 22 | So when they walked in here it was packed in there and it was full in the bar . |
| 23 | Before then it was served with a ford , and a ferry when the tide was high . |
| 24 | The scheme has recently been improved to include criteria for judging a product at all stages in its life , from how it was made , to its impact on the environment after it has been sold . |
| 25 | It started to make er a bit of a horrible noise around the ten second mark and from there it was aborted immediately , erm the sledgehammer was handy and it was just a matter of seconds after that . |
| 26 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 27 | part of the process of universal involvement in recognition of Artai as Lord of the Earth now necessitated the removal of the Dragon Throne — a solid piece of carving of the weight of seven thousand diram — with its occupant from the top of the plinth down to the concourse from whence it was destined to be borne on a processional route on the shoulders of teams of men of every degree in the Khanate , most of whom had been selected by lot , although there were a few who had paid out considerable sums in gold koban for the privilege of inclusion . |
| 28 | For years it was in the library of a Spanish noble house , from whence it was acquired by Thomas Thorp ( 1791–1851 ) , a baker who took to bookselling in Bedford Street , Piccadilly and Henrietta Street , Covent Garden . |
| 29 | Her hair had been swept up to the top of her head , from whence it was allowed to fall in ringlets to her neck . |
| 30 | The Mimicke Dog was thought to be raised by apes in Africa , from whence it was imported to England as a treasure for Queen Elizabeth I. |