Example sentences of "it was [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eventually demolished and is now the site for a small housing estate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With the help of co-operative Panamanians , it was duly seized and a provisional Panamanian government established , with an American warship in the background . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was soon superseded and complete copies are very rare . |
| 7 | My contention is that although the colonial legal system was influenced by culture conflict at the beginning of British rule , it was soon adapted and accepted as an integral social institution by the mass of the people . |
| 8 | It was both extended and refined by the successive reports of the Development Team for the mentally handicapped and through the work of Simon . |
| 9 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 10 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 11 | The riots continued for three days , climaxing on 7 June when it was finally quelled and the half-mad leader of the Protestant Association Lord George Gordon taken to the Tower . |
| 12 | Four more divisions took place then , before it was finally agreed and ordered to be sent to the House of Commons . |
| 13 | OZ 28 , the Schoolkids ' Issue , took such a name because it was largely written and edited by children , a fact that was largely ignored during the trial . |
| 14 | But whereas this in all probability had previously been secret lore imparted through oral tradition , with Evan it was willingly shared and brought into the public domain . |
| 15 | It was simplistic , it was an insult to many of those people taking part , it was ruthlessly edited and — it was fascinating ! |
| 16 | Animal inspectors said that when they found the dog , it was practically skin and bone . |
| 17 | It was softly lit and there was music with a man trying to sing : I could have shown him a thing or two . |
| 18 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |
| 19 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 20 | ‘ It was completely looted and then burned down . ’ |
| 21 | It was vertically banked and some thirty metres wide . |
| 22 | Just before half-time City came back with a goal from Ian Baird it was well made and well taken … food for thought for the United defence and of course Smith who started off in the directors box but was down on the touchline after this incident in which David Penney charged into Junior Bent … |
| 23 | However everyone involved in the Consortium 's case appears to feel it was well constructed and presented . |
| 24 | It was well received and had several performances . |
| 25 | 68% said it was well written and clear . |
| 26 | She reported that it was well written and the product of an expert . |
| 27 | But , although it was well designed and firmly built , Columbia Square was also grim . |
| 28 | The most famous tin-glazed pottery of Spain was lustre pottery ; it was also exported and found its way into the wealthy households of medieval Europe . |
| 29 | As originally laid there was also a single line curve from Lower Church Street towards Sutton , but it was rarely used and removed after a few years . |
| 30 | I said I thought it was already done and the form was sent away . |