Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 2 | Russia proposed that it be regarded as the successor state of the Soviet Union in respect of the START treaty , but this was finally rejected by the others in April [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 3 | In his will Captain Sykes left the School £1,000 , and his son proposed that it be used to build an extra classroom . |
| 4 | Masters and Johnson ( 1966 ) investigated the causes of impotence in older men , and found that it is caused as much by anxiety about possible physiological change as by the ageing process itself . |
| 5 | Fomalhaut is a pure white star , 13 times as luminous as the Sun and 22 light-years away ; in 1983 the IRAS satellite found that it is associated with cool material which may be planet-forming . |
| 6 | And we found that it 's starting to erm pay dividends . |
| 7 | When he found that it was locked , he understood what his grandsons had done , and he sat down and wept for their hardness of heart . |
| 8 | Trying to get out of the traffic jam , I took a short cut down a back lane but found that it was blocked by a large wedding tent helpfully erected across the full width of the road . |
| 9 | She crossed to the door and found that it was unlocked . |
| 10 | … we attended at the School on Monday the 17th [ July , 1833 ] and found that it was divided into six classes , the first being composed of three boys only whose study was the Classics , the second of about 20 who were instructed in the Latin Grammar , and the remaining four classes were composed of boys whose education was confined to Reading , Writing , Arithmetic , and English Grammar , in which instruction the boys in the two senior classes also participated . " |
| 11 | During the late 1970s , the company found that it was becoming increasingly expensive to maintain its head office in London and therefore looked for alternative accommodation elsewhere . |
| 12 | They found that it was used in 40 per cent of development projects but only 16 per cent of research projects , and then mainly in large , complex projects costing over $500 000 . |
| 13 | They found that it was used in 40 per cent of development projects but only 16 per cent of research projects , and then mainly in large , complex projects costing over $500 000 . |
| 14 | The few states which actually measured what was happening to landfill capacity reported that it was increasing , in some cases because more waste was being diverted to recycling or waste-to-energy plants . |
| 15 | I mean how far extra it moved because it was accelerating . ’ |
| 16 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 17 | As soon as he looked out of the window on the morning after he arrived ( he tells them ) and saw what the place was like , he realized that it was based on the tutorial system . |
| 18 | The radio was silent and I realized that it was coming from outside . |
| 19 | In 1868 , however , Greathead made an offer to build the tunnel for the sum of £9,400 and Barlow recommended that it be accepted . |
| 20 | He elaborated it in a memorandum of 17 Nov 1987 , which was discussed at the Africa/Middle East Committee on 8 Dec 1987 , and at SMT on 4 Dec 1987 , both of whom recommended that it be explored . |
| 21 | There was an estimate of £10:1:0 for enclosing Kiels , with a gate , and they recommended that it be done if it did not exceed |
| 22 | On May 4th the Bank 's governing council recommended that it be filled by Antonio Fazio , one of the Bank 's two deputy directors-general . |
| 23 | The oldest nuclear power plant in the United States , located near Rowe , Massachusetts , has been closed down by its operators after experts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) recommended that it be taken out of service immediately because of doubts about its safety . |
| 24 | Although the Government 's recent decision to pull all atomic reactors from the sell-off programme and scrap the construction of three Pressurised Water Reactors was expected to freeze Britain 's civil nuclear programme for at least five years , BNFL yesterday disclosed that it was looking at ways of diversifying into generating power . |
| 25 | He uttered a short sharp bark , which made Rosie jump ; she assumed it was a cough , then realised that it was intended as an expression of amusement . |
| 26 | It was a few seconds before she realised that it was coming from her . |
| 27 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 28 | This week ITV announced that it is dropping the God slot due to lack of interest . |
| 29 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 30 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |