Example sentences of "it was [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ It was about meeting new people and being inspired by other people 's work , or watching an actor or actress who could hardly talk come into a class and then six months later suddenly do a brilliant scene . |
| 2 | It was about unravelling the merger mistakes of the 1960s : splitting up conglomerates , or else buying a firm and selling off divisions that were remote from its main business . |
| 3 | It was about laying waste enemy territory , about the pursuit of a retreating army , about sieges . |
| 4 | It was n't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers , it was about improving the real world . |
| 5 | It was through holding a beauty parade that I C I discovered the benefits of using a regional firm . |
| 6 | Gregory argues that if God did not take on a humanity like ours , then we are not redeemed ; for it was through sharing our humanity that Christ redeemed it . |
| 7 | It was through believing in it implicitly that they got their power and their results . |
| 8 | But it was through linking reform to the rates issue and a particular conception of the ‘ people ’ that political specificity was conferred and revealed in the programmes . |
| 9 | RSVP was formed soon after the NRA announced it was considering building the reservoir in spring 1991 . |
| 10 | At the time , Suter said it was considering taking action against other parties . |
| 11 | The United Nations said it was considering evacuating foreign aid workers . |
| 12 | The government had stated that it was considering making a formal application for membership , as Sweden had done in July . |
| 13 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |
| 14 | After two fruitless days spent trying to place 60m shares in Midland Bank , owned by the Kuwait Investment Organisation , at 362p apiece , a decision to chop the the offer price back to 356p , together with the rise in Hongkong & Shanghai Bank 's share price in Hong Kong overnight ( increasing the value of its paper offer to 394p ) , eventually convinced arbitrageurs both here and in the Far East it was worth taking the stock . |
| 15 | Either way , she felt it was worth taking a chance . |
| 16 | It was worth getting back to Paul 's route for it soon brought us to Hardy 's birthplace , a small thatched cottage just outside Higher Bockhampton . |
| 17 | He gaily continued to offend and reoffend , to the point where the police wondered whether it was worth bothering to pick him up . |
| 18 | Even so , I thought it was worth persisting , trying to get her to remember noises , smells , anything that would give us a clue to where they were taken . |
| 19 | They did however feel that it was worth coordinating the acquisition of reference material and the retention of periodical titles . |
| 20 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 21 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |
| 22 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 23 | Eyeing the police car , she wondered whether it belonged to Officer Hassan and whether it was worth hanging around for a word with him . |
| 24 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 25 | It was worth trying , but he did n't have high hopes . |
| 26 | ‘ It was worth trying . ’ |
| 27 | It was worth trying surely ? |
| 28 | However we decided that it was worth trying , arranged it for Thursday 22nd June , starting from Craven Arms , and very successful it was , with 29 people coming on the trip . |
| 29 | It was worth trying . |
| 30 | Signs like these were enough to convince educated contemporaries that it was worth trying to maintain the pressure on the authorities which they had already begun to generate . |