Example sentences of "was [vb pp] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the two years since it was formed it has attracted $6m in venture capital and another $4m from big-name strategic partners , on the promise that the application development environment it 's designing would be a significant enough advance to turn the company into a nine-digit revenue producer . |
| 2 | Ever since the Peace People organisation was formed it has run a number of services which still continue today . |
| 3 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 4 | When the NRA was formed it inherited 12 fixed-site water-quality monitoring stations that would have been prohibitively expensive to modernise . |
| 5 | In fact , she won the history prize so many times that last term she was given it to keep , having only missed out in the second-year . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ You see I was given it to work and read in , not to … entertain . ’ |
| 7 | You see , all the iron work , as you took it off , it had to be straightened out , and if it was broken it had to be rewelded . |
| 8 | Actually , although I said ‘ he ’ , when the body was examined it turned out to be that of a woman in male dress . |
| 9 | But since Miletti was immobilized it had been agreed that he would be fetched by a group consisting of Pietro Miletti escorted by Zen and Palottino in the Alfetta , with an ambulance in attendance in case Ruggiero required immediate attention . |
| 10 | When the flap of the tent was disturbed it began to shudder , but hunger was now so powerful a force in its life that it could not bring itself to leave the stench of the kill . |
| 11 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 12 | Moreover , when this was done it led back to the study of linear Diophantine equations , a problem that Smith had already solved ( Box A ) . |
| 13 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 14 | Since the reserviour was built it has become an important tourist and recreational centre but now none of the businesses can be sure they have a future . |
| 15 | THE Queen came under fire last night when it was revealed it costs £369,000 for a day 's sailing in the royal yacht Britannia . |
| 16 | TROUBLED morning television station GMTV finally had something to smile about last night when it was revealed it gained an extra million viewers over the last two weeks . |
| 17 | During the year in which the final version was written it became clear that Raskolnikov must be freed absolutely from suicide and blanket boredom and ripostes like the one about family life which issue out from beneath that boredom . |
| 18 | As it was still under guarantee , he took it back to the shop and a month later was told it had been repaired . |
| 19 | Anyway I was told it had to finish in thirteen weeks . |
| 20 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 21 | Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers . |
| 22 | Whenever the word translated " atonement " was used it meant paying a price — a ransom price . |
| 23 | When it was sold it became the village hall at Bishop Wilton . |
| 24 | If a teacher had no direct responsibility for ensuring that anything was produced it tended to involve them only marginally : |
| 25 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 26 | Although I was complimented it did not prevent my being officer of the watch . |
| 27 | In the 143 years since it was played it has probably never been surpassed . |
| 28 | In fact erm when for example Microsoft Access was reduced it included in the box the O D B C driver to access the SQL Server database . |
| 29 | After this was refused it proposed a merger with the Mid Essex Hospital Trust with which it works closely . |
| 30 | When Marsh was dumped it did not concern him that as Australian captain anything he said or did might be misconstrued or magnified many times over . |