Example sentences of "[coord] it was [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 2 | When it became obvious that the strike was n't going to last a fortnight or it was n't going to last a month . |
| 3 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 4 | Controversy grew about some of the bolder experiments in egalitarian education , and it was increasingly alleged that basic education , the ‘ three Rs ’ , was being neglected . |
| 5 | In classical political thinking , " democracy " was the name not merely of a form of government but of a whole society , and it was habitually associated , by its enemies and critics as well as its friends , with the principle of social equality . |
| 6 | By April 1991 , despite the ending of the armed conflict which drove Iraq out of Kuwait [ for ceasefire resolution see p. 38116 ] , the depressed mood was still in evidence , and it was unofficially reported in mid-April that the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) had reduced its forecasts of economic growth among the world 's largest industrialized nations from 2.3 per cent in 1990 to only 1.4 per cent in 1991 . |
| 7 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 8 | Eight overs remained , and it was universally known that the bails would be lifted even if the match was still undecided : an extra pressure on everyone , and another silly regulation among cricket 's banana-skins , this one installed pre-tour by the visiting team . |
| 9 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
| 10 | The first stone of the House of Industry was laid in September 1794 and it was officially opened for the reception of paupers in April 1796 . |
| 11 | Paperwork was usually the least enjoyed part of farming and it was invariably left to wives . |
| 12 | Arguably , this is another kind of corruption , but it was in general a very long-range bribery , and it was invariably offered in the guise of friendship . |
| 13 | And it was curiously unnerving to realize that the little boy staying in his parents ' house should bear the same name . |
| 14 | And it was not helping the poor that kept me going , but the thought of having to admit that I had no stomach . |
| 15 | This withdrawal of co-operation was described as a suspension rather than a severance , however , and it was not made clear whether DEA agents would be ordered out of Mexico . |
| 16 | All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people . |
| 17 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 18 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 19 | Now I would be the first to admit that I I 'm not a judge as accountant , I 'm an insurance broker er and erm I do n't understand er and I 'm not aware of all of the rules and regulations that affect accountants er and affect the way audits are carried out , b but I must say I was a bit surprised t to hear during the debate , er that that was really what the problem was , the problem with B C C I was this conflict of interest , that fraud was known and it was not declared er and er I think that these er these regulations should now make that considerably er more clear . |
| 20 | British Airways reported very few cancellations and it was not axing any flights . |
| 21 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 22 | The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 . |
| 23 | If you knew nothing about chocolate and it was not wrapped would you ever buy it ? |
| 24 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 25 | He thought that by involving as many as possible in the formal decision-making , he was ensuring their support ; but he forgot that his pleasure in obedience had been learnt the hard way of monastic conversion , and it was not shared by many — not even , when it came to the push , at Bec — much less in the world . |
| 26 | But Eliot continued to work on it , and it was not published until 1926–7 . |
| 27 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the potential causes of instability , but that was not the subject of our discussion last Friday and it was not discussed other than in the margins of the meeting . |
| 28 | HBsAg positive individuals ( accounting for 3% of our cirrhotic population ) were excluded because at the outset of the trial hepatitus B virus immunisation was not widely available to theatre staff and it was not deemed acceptable to expose such staff to the risks of infection undergoing elective surgery . |
| 29 | It did not work , for the reasons set out above , and it was not going to , because it sprang from a basic error . |
| 30 | It was a long document which took about forty minutes to read and it was not greeted with warm enthusiasm . |