Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I am concerned , four-day cricket is worth a go , and the committee were right to endorse it as a means to aid the development of future England cricketers . |
| 2 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 3 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 4 | Although the language was a bit complicated you were able to understand it after a while through the actors way of raising and lowering their voices . |
| 5 | in the studies described earlier , those who were most proficient in BSL were those learning it as a first language ( albeit with English as another first language ) . |
| 6 | At the other end the teachers were ready to hoist it onto a trolley for transportation to the basket lift . |
| 7 | As though you know erm after all head known all about it this is the to himself and by doing that then abbreviated then , that 's when the reader was supposed to take it as a thought process rather than a |
| 8 | He donated the Lateran Palace to the Bishop of Rome , and Rome was able to use it as a means of establishing supremacy over rival centres of Christian authority in Alexandria and Antioch . |
| 9 | But I was able to transfer it onto a separate system and compile that and produce the lexicon there . |
| 10 | Having anticipated this , Maria was able to meet it with a degree of control . |
| 11 | Toby , next morning , was inclined to regard it as a great victory . |
| 12 | Leading lady Julia Roberts was keen to make it with a British actor , namely Last Of The Mohicans Daniel Day Lewis , but is reluctant to go ahead with the replacement suggested by producer 's Universal , her former boyfriend Jason Patric . |