Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has included the shut-down of the Meat Research Institute in Bristol which " had a worldwide reputation , and people in other countries were dumbfounded when it closed " according to Waites . |
| 2 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 3 | The political ramifications of the case were highlighted after it emerged that two of the four co-operatives implicated were owned by members of Sharif 's ruling IDA and that substantial loans had been extended to a number of IDA politicians , including Sharif himself . |
| 4 | Seacat Scotland 's plans were disclosed when it sent an information pack on the jobs to Barbara Fonte Garcia , of Dalbeattie , Dumfries and Galloway . |
| 5 | In short , it was claimed that meditators ' moral senses were enlivened and it helped them ‘ become better Christians ’ . |
| 6 | Knives were drawn and it looked as if many ancient , long-held grudges were to be settled . |
| 7 | They had to first of all get a base from which to achieve , unfortunately of course gaining the power and the growth of the power no doubt the ideals were corrupted and it became what you are su suggesting it did , it no longer represented the people . |
| 8 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 9 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 10 | The medieval Church had laid down categorical rules about the impropriety of Christians enslaving other Christians but these rules were waived when it became a matter of enslaving black Africans . |
| 11 | Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options . |
| 12 | Plans to introduce an interim budget were abandoned after it became clear that the budget deficit would be larger than anticipated . |
| 13 | Only a few years ago , in their efforts to quell the excessive and unhealthy use of laxatives , many doctors were insisting that it did not matter . |
| 14 | Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick . |
| 15 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 16 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 17 | Doors were fitted and it came into use on 7 September . |
| 18 | Under the empire , in large towns , the shops were cleared and it became the site for more magnificent buildings devoted to the administration of justice , bureaucracy and commerce , as well as for worship . |
| 19 | All 9 crew members on board the Hercules transport plane were killed when it crashed into the Grampian Hills in North East Scotland last Thursday . |
| 20 | Passengers on the 5.18pm train from Waterloo in London to Alton , Hampshire , were enraged when it stopped at Woking , Surrey , and the driver said it would not go further . |
| 21 | Roads were blocked and gardens were swamped but it carried on raining . |
| 22 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 23 | Failure of Antarctic sanctuary plan A French proposal for the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary was withdrawn when it became clear that it would not win the requisite 75 per cent level of support of IWC members . |
| 24 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 25 | ( None the less , it should be noted that a critical essay of Eliot 's was dismissed because it said " nothing new " three years later. ) 50 A. C. Ward , reviewing a book called The Trend of Modem Poetry in 1936 , notes the impossibility of achieving " neutrality in the face of the conflict between right and left groups in contemporary poetry " , and therefore applauds attempts to " bring the apparently isolated modernists into the main traditional stream of English poetry " . |
| 26 | From the seventeenth century onwards , much of this land to the south of the Wash was drained and it has been farmed intensively ever since . |
| 27 | Nothing was new in this White Paper : it was emphasized that it provided an outline of a long-term strategy rather than a programme of rapid action , so it was generally regarded as a due statement of concern and good intentions , and little more . |
| 28 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 29 | And that she said was repossessed and it went for seventy five thousand . |
| 30 | Unionist control of local government was resented because it represented minority control and the resentment was kept alive by accusations of discrimination in the allocation of council jobs and housing . |