Example sentences of "[verb] it was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 2 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 3 | In a development that highlighted Rosyth 's struggle to survive , the MoD last night confirmed it was giving serious consideration to an attempt by Devonport to poach a £28 million ship refitting contract already awarded to the Fife yard . |
| 4 | Whenever possible I try to get a Lecture Theatre , erm but I was told it was booked all day today we were originally in presentation room then came , so be grateful we 're in the Board Room . |
| 5 | Although the rebels had begun an air ferry with six planes they had at their disposal , it was clear that the rate of transfer thus achieved was much too slow and that the only hope of improving it was to obtain more planes from outside Spain . |
| 6 | If the government wanted to encourage a new trade in supplying meal to the populace , the last way to do it was to remove all profit from the enterprise . |
| 7 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 8 | The guy who owns it was shouting all kinds of stuff and he let it slip . |
| 9 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 10 | We were all very friendly and nice and you made a big effort , Claudia darling , but I do n't think it was appreciated one bit . |
| 11 | ‘ I stopped it because I did n't think it was doing any good . |
| 12 | Last month , the Post Office announced it was shedding 15,000 jobs . |
| 13 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |
| 14 | In June , BAe Space Systems , a British Aerospace subsidiary that makes communication satellites , announced it was cutting 640 jobs as part of a rationalisation scheme . |
| 15 | LAST WEEK 'S Parliamentary debate on the funding of science took place on the day the Science and Engineering Research Council announced it was cutting next year 's budget by £28 million . |
| 16 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 17 | But I was so small I can remember very well going down this what we called the Middle Pad , this Roa , it was n't Road , I think it was called Middle Pad . |
| 18 | In the whole , as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate . |
| 19 | I was thinking it was knit one purl one on the stitches you know , but mm . |
| 20 | The company said it was advised last week by the US Federal Trade Commission that no objection would be raised to the acquisition of up to 15 per cent of Jaguar shares . |
| 21 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |
| 22 | Although Univel claimed its strategy remained unchanged , it also said it was putting more emphasis on the desktop , the Microsoft stronghold where NT is likely to be stronger than it is in Unix 's bailiwick , the server . |
| 23 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 24 | He also suspected it was taking poor Sombro even longer to get home after a heavy session ! |