Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 29 , Reuter reported that UNITA had ordered its forces to drive government troops out of the area , while denying that it was launching a general offensive . |
| 2 | In the Netherlands on Nov. 14 reports quoted Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers as having admitted to the existence of a secret organization in the Netherlands but denying that it was supervised by NATO . |
| 3 | The reply to my letter tamely confirmed this , explaining that it was considered wasteful and expensive to train anyone of that age , for their service would be too short . |
| 4 | The flight from Bangkok was only minutes from landing when it was turned away because of a monsoon . |
| 5 | It seems as though the stag has been forced into accepting that it was dealing with a much more powerful opponent . |
| 6 | His sole gave him a peculiar sensation , realising that it was undone and dragging , made him laugh , in retort , but secretly , inside . |
| 7 | The main reason for believing that it was neglected was its complete absence from any cinema newsreels of the period . ’ |
| 8 | The doctors were diverted into believing that it was related to my stomach . |
| 9 | Specific point of the South Wales police authority 's difficulties , would he not say that at least they 're partly due to the police authority believing that it was going to be er underspending in the current year and being out in its calculations by about two million pounds , would n't you think that that was at least a factor ? |
| 10 | When remarking that it was to have an entrance from Whitehall Road , we may recall the strenuous objections by the Corporation when the B.E.T . |
| 11 | It was raining and it was threatening . |
| 12 | The accused bought a theodolite , suspecting that it was stolen . |
| 13 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 14 | It was on display for the day and was being steamed so that the boiler inspectors could check it out and issue the necessary documents confirming that it was tested and available to work . |
| 15 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 16 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 17 | For myself , I remember going home after the AGM at which the idea to start the new church was first announced , wondering if it was to involve us in leadership . |
| 18 | The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma . |
| 19 | It need pay nothing , but , in reality , off-course betting has paid an annual levy to racing since it was legalised in 1960 . |
| 20 | They were wondering whether it was going to happen again . |
| 21 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 22 | Senior party members were due to meet the American delegation — who arrived in Ireland today on a fact-finding visit — but were reconsidering after it was revealed that the group will meet Sinn Fein . |
| 23 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 24 | The ‘ object ’ is a lump of granite , with a plaque above stating that it was brought down on ice from Westmorland during the Ice Age 300,000 years ago . |
| 25 | He declared that peace would only be lasting if it was based on the principle of " no victor , no vanquished " . |
| 26 | Even in the wet , it was almost impossible to get the test car 's tail moving as it was fitted with Mercedes ' Anti-Skid Control ( German acronym ASR ) , which works like anti-lock brakes but in reverse . |
| 27 | In which hotel was Mrs Thatcher staying when it was bombed by the IRA ? |
| 28 | Mr. Gardiner relied on this case as demonstrating that it was considered self-evident that the right to recovery arose directly from the unlawful exaction irrespective of whether any element of compulsion existed . |
| 29 | The building was completed by 457 B.C. , for Pausanias saw on the apex of the east pediment a golden shield or bowl with a Gorgoneion and below it an inscription ( still partly preserved ) saying that it was dedicated by the Spar tans , a tithe from the spoils taken from the Argives , Athenians and their allies at Tanagra , a battle which took place in that year . |
| 30 | A year later , the Government restored the 5 per cent abatement in that year 's uprating of benefits , conceding that it was experiencing considerable difficulties in making invalidity benefit liable to taxation by the following year . |