Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A report by the West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit demonstrated that it was not only residents who ran the risk of exploitation , but also the staff . |
| 2 | A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them . |
| 3 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 4 | Despite this , Mazzin maintained that it was still a local feud . |
| 5 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 6 | I noticed this with distaste , and rejoiced that it was not the asparagus season . |
| 7 | We doubted that it was technically possible , or that there would be a niche for such a business , but they proved us to be wrong and that was the beginning of the launch of Tactel , our highly successful family of fibres for leisurewear , the ICI record campaign , and so many more besides . |
| 8 | He found that it is not unusual in some industries for prices to individual buyers to remain unchanged for several years . |
| 9 | After an arduous approach march they reached Heraklion airfield , but found that it was well guarded . |
| 10 | He tore it open and found that it was n't empty , just that the fine powder inside took up so little space . |
| 11 | We were also glad to report that the lease holders at the time found that it was n't profitable and relinquished their rights . |
| 12 | Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked . |
| 13 | He did that to get publicity , cos in fact they found that it was n't eh , rubbish he was selling in there . |
| 14 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 15 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 16 | The student found that it was not uncommon to regard the young person 's stay in residential care as temporary . |
| 17 | Astington found that it was not until the age of nine years that the majority of children gave consistently correct responses . |
| 18 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 19 | The trial judge found that it was not foreseeable that fuel oil on water would catch fire but there was some foreseeable damage in the fouling . |
| 20 | Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression . |
| 21 | Hammicks , which had promised to match prices elsewhere , found that it was rarely called on to do so . |
| 22 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 23 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 24 | When she got there she found that it was rather full , but being a regular churchgoer she did not mind going up to the front where there were plenty of empty pews . |
| 25 | Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds . |
| 26 | Karen found that it was very easy to talk to Drew . |
| 27 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 28 | For now she found that it was there , an entity — not quite picture , not quite story — demanding sense and shape : expression . |
| 29 | Idealistic and romantic , Will Simpson responded to the beauty of nature almost as a duty and in strong contrast to his wife who found that it was always too cold and complained that the wind ruined her hair the moment she stepped out of the garden gate . |
| 30 | Each repeated the other 's remarks and on the couple of occasions that I went there when Sparks were crowded out , I found that it was extremely difficult not to laugh . |