Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On May 15 , 1990 , the Vatican announced that it was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Romania , broken in 1950 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sierra Leone announced that it was sending 2,000 men to the border area after rebels from Liberia killed 25 people during raids . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 12 | Mozart wrote to Constanze that it was attracting full houses , and several numbers — ‘ Mann und Weib ’ , Papageno 's glockenspiel in the Act One finale , and the trio of the three boys from Act II ( ‘ Sied uns zum zweiten Mal willkommen ’ ) had to be repeated . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom government announced on Nov. 28 that it was restoring diplomatic relations with Syria with immediate effect . |
| 14 | The commission , supposedly independent but appointed by the military government , said that it was investigating various claims of irregularities made against the candidates . |
| 15 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |
| 16 | Standard Chartered said on June 12 that it was launching criminal proceedings in India to recover an estimated US$299,800,000 lost in the securities scandal . |
| 17 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 18 | There was a tiny hole in it and it was spilling white blobs of polystyrene like grain . |
| 19 | Pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would I do if I won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the C C T V for later playback . |
| 20 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |
| 21 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 22 | She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters . |
| 23 | more public expenditure : the King 's Fund researchers provided a tentative estimate that spending would have had to be just under £400 million higher in 1987/88 if it was to match 1981/82 levels , taking into account changing demand and technology ; |
| 24 | His Honour John Slack in allowing the appeal told the RSPCA that it needed to clean up its act if it was to secure future prosecutions . |
| 25 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |
| 26 | But it was exasperated Tory backbenchers who sealed his fate . |
| 27 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 28 | While it was printing two things happened . |
| 29 | RICHMOND Royal Park in southwest London has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the wildlife preserved there since it was created three centuries ago . |
| 30 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |