Example sentences of "[conj] it was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 2 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 3 | Northwestern Bell Telephone Co et al , where it was held that proof of an organised crime nexus is not required for RICO to be invoked , it is now clear that the draconian penalties applicable under RICO may be used against insider dealers . |
| 4 | For discussion of adequate display of notice , see Tevan v. Motherwell District Licensing Board ( No. 1 ) 1985 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 14 , where it was held that display of a notice within a post office was sufficient . |
| 5 | This was applied in Dixons Ltd. v. Roberts ( 1894 D.C. ) where it was held that section 14 did not catch a trader who gave a false indication that a refund would be given on any goods purchased , if within seven days the customer was able to buy the same products locally more cheaply . |
| 6 | It would have made a compact little home except it was painted dark brown like the corridors . |
| 7 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 8 | Although it was announced last November that the awards would be down to 1.5 per cent , that did not stop politicians and union leaders from condemning the Government 's action . |
| 9 | Some people were shocked although it was expected some people are devastated . |
| 10 | Cristiani agreed on Dec. 1 to the removal of the officers , although it was anticipated that Ponce would not be dismissed immediately . |
| 11 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
| 12 | On Sept. 12 the Revolutionary Justice Organization ( RJO ) in Beirut made its first formal announcement that it was holding British hostage Jackie Mann , kidnapped in Beirut in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , while Islamic Jihad issued a statement welcoming the releases and accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage , Terry Anderson . |
| 13 | The Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 18 that it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel , which was refusing to appoint an ambassador while Waldheim remained President . |
| 14 | Er , in his er , comment just now he er , referred to the enor , the enormous er , amount that it was costing this council to er , fund the special protection service . |
| 15 | Even if it is n't , I ca n't see that it was pushed any distance … |
| 16 | We would n't still be doing it if we did n't feel that it was creating enough profit in the meantime , and looked like it could create more as it went along . ’ |
| 17 | International outrage at deteriorating conditions in Turkish refugee camps in the mountainous border region around Isikveren led the government to announce on April 14 that it was moving 200,000 refugees to prepared sites near Silopi , about 50 km inside Turkey . |
| 18 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 19 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 20 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 21 | The European Commission announced on July 31 that it was dropping legal action against the United Kingdom in five out of seven cases where UK plans had been deemed to infringe EC environmental assessment directives . |
| 22 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 23 | On May 15 , 1990 , the Vatican announced that it was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Romania , broken in 1950 . |
| 24 | Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention . |
| 25 | For its part the UN Security Council agreed to send a high-level mission to Baghdad to demand immediate , total access to facilities , and stated that it was considering issuing Iraq with an ultimatum to produce objects spirited out of the military base where the shots were fired , east of Al Falluja . |
| 26 | As part of the fund-raising effort , the Scottish Bridge Union ran a National Spring Swiss Teams and this was such a success that it was repeated this year . |
| 27 | A year later , the Government restored the 5 per cent abatement in that year 's uprating of benefits , conceding that it was experiencing considerable difficulties in making invalidity benefit liable to taxation by the following year . |
| 28 | Sierra Leone announced that it was sending 2,000 men to the border area after rebels from Liberia killed 25 people during raids . |
| 29 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 30 | The United Kingdom announced at the same time that it was freeing Iraqi assets worth £70,000,000 ( about US$126,000,000 ) , but a UK Foreign Office spokesman denied allegations that Richer 's release had been secured by an unpublicised arrangement between Iraq and the UK , said to involve the unfreezing of part of £621,400,000 ( US$1,100 million ) held by banks in the UK . |