Example sentences of "it was [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the drafters of the constitution wanted specific guarantees of press freedom , but it was eventually decided that the press should enjoy the same freedom of any Nigerian citizen , there being no need for special treatment . |
| 2 | The hearing was held at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court where it was eventually decided that there was a case to answer , and Bogdanov was committed for trial . |
| 3 | The House of Lords was deliberating at that moment whether such people could legally be Trustees of a Church of England School ( it was eventually decided that they could not ) . |
| 4 | It was eventually decided that c. 120 onwards was the correct period of building and that the whole edifice was of one time although there were later restorations by both Septimius Severus and Caracalla , who added their inscriptions on the architrave of the portico below that of Agrippa . |
| 5 | It was eventually demolished and is now the site for a small housing estate . |
| 6 | It was eventually agreed that each would pay half this cost and as the junction between the two systems was on a rather narrow section of road at the foot of a hump-backed railway bridge , the boundary was not a suitable place for a change point . |
| 7 | It was eventually agreed that I could be allowed to bring up the subject . |
| 8 | It was eventually agreed that the company would be allowed an overdraft facility of £135,000 , reducing to £120,000 after three weeks . |
| 9 | As regards the legal position of some 350,000 Chinese living in Indonesia , it was eventually agreed that China would offer them citizenship , and that those who declined this offer would be granted permanent residency rights by the Indonesian government . |
| 10 | It was eventually agreed that the issue of Li Un Hye would be dealt with separately from the normalization talks . |
| 11 | But even if magnetic fields could confine the wind , the hot gas pressure would be expected to build until it was episodically released as in a pressure cooker . |
| 12 | One special feature of the materials is the fact that it was thoroughly tried and tested by the authors and their colleagues over a number of years before reaching its present form . |
| 13 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 14 | In June the National Union finally decided its attitude : it was duly recorded that : |
| 15 | With the help of co-operative Panamanians , it was duly seized and a provisional Panamanian government established , with an American warship in the background . |
| 16 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 17 | And nobody had seen her real face for years , for it was heavily rouged and powdered from the top of her eyebrows to where her wrinkled skin disappeared into the bodice of her bright-red velvet evening gown . |
| 18 | It was tactfully explained that the destination was somewhat nearer — Scotland ! |
| 19 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 20 | From its inception , traditional medicine came to form an integral part of the popular health system , while in the ‘ official ’ system it was either ignored and ridiculed or was incorporated and exploited for profit . |
| 21 | ‘ Early this morning or perhaps during the night the room was vandalized ; everything in it was either damaged or destroyed . ’ |
| 22 | It was thus conceded that there was a breach of Code C 11.5 and 11.6 of PACE . |
| 23 | It was thus found that the majority of the reaction time required was in identifying the values of the card and choosing the pile onto which it should be placed . |
| 24 | However it was soon decided that the time was not right to consider this as well . |
| 25 | Literariness being defined as the difference between automatism and defamiliarization , it was soon perceived that it was not constructed in the same way in all works , and that the devices manifesting difference in prose narrative were not the same as the devices manifesting difference in lyric poetry . |
| 26 | It was soon realised that antihistamines did not block all the effects of histamine , and in particular its action in promoting the secretion of gastric acid . |
| 27 | It was soon realised that the W-3 had remarkable capabilities as demonstrated to the press on Hounslow Heath near London later in the month . |
| 28 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 29 | It was soon realised that media reporting of crowd disorder boosted the sales of newspapers — a matter of importance in an increasingly competitive industry . |
| 30 | It was soon realised that the Cutters fitted into the new approach to Customs work very well . |