Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] it [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other one , vaguely at the back of my mind it was raised this morning cos I recall Mr made a comment on it , and that is erm looking at the growth implications beyond two thousand and six . |
| 2 | Of equal clarity was the passage in the judgment of Willes J in 1871 when in Lee v Bude and Torrington Junction Railway Co. ( 1871 ) LR 6 CP 576 ( in which case it was alleged that Parliament had been induced to pass an Act by fraudulent recitals ) he said , at p. 582 : |
| 3 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 4 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |
| 5 | I did have a gaoler , though — a horrible valet called Hicks , whose job it was to make sure I did n't mix with anyone outside the family . |
| 6 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 7 | On Aug. 13 the Soviet Union responded coolly to Saddam 's " peace initiative " of the previous day , and on Aug. 17 Shevardnadze said in Moscow after talks with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the Security Council could soon assume a military role which could bring a rapid resolution of the crisis ; the Security Council Military Staff Committee , he said , was the body whose task it was to co-ordinate military measures . |