Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DEA was free to use it for any covert operation it wished , but if anything went wrong , Hurley could always say , ‘ Oh , you mean that Cypriot boat . ’ |
| 2 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was in good condition , its shape and window arrangement made the formation of a central light-well unnecessary , and the city council were keen to prevent it from falling into long-term disuse . |
| 5 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 6 | Cassie was content to leave it at that . |
| 7 | The assembly passed it to presbyteries and they in turn passed it on through their billets to ministers who in turn were supposed to pass it to sessions and it was supposed to be discussed at session level and turned down to ordinary congregations . |
| 8 | Where a defendant was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with a co-defendant who had pleaded guilty to a charge of gross indecency with the appellant , evidence of the co-defendant 's plea of guilty , although relevant , should have been excluded from the jury , since such evidence would have an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings against the defendant as the jury was likely to treat it as going to prove the defendant 's guilt . |
| 9 | As the Bank of England poured in £10 billion to prop up the pound , the four big banks — Natwest , Barclays , Midland and Lloyds — and insurance giants the Pru were busy coining it by speculating . |
| 10 | ‘ the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit … that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge . |
| 11 | ‘ Again , the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit since this judgment was delivered , that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge . |
| 12 | The employee , either during or after employment was free to impart it to anyone — including his employer 's competitor . |
| 13 | 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 |