Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Remembering , perhaps , clashes that had taken place in the past between the travellers and the locals , at the next meeting of the parish council it was suggested that advice be taken regarding the legal value of the charter and the legal position concerning trespass on council land . |
| 4 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In relation to recording on the file it was held that time spent in preparing typed file and attendance notes should be recorded , and will be recovered , provided that the time spent is not excessive . |
| 7 | On more than one occasion it was remarked that ship designers tested their designs on duckponds . |
| 8 | And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression . |
| 9 | In the Store it was considered bad manners , while Outside … well , there were so many other things that killed nomes in any case . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | In this instance it was to create another car access route to the Murrayfield Stadium for the visit of Billy Graham , the crowd gathering evangelist . |
| 12 | In addition it was agreed that intelligence and incriminating evidence on drug traffickers would be exchanged between the four countries , which would share any proceeds from seizure or confiscation of drug cartel property . |
| 13 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 14 | Not only were there numerous deep recessions , but by the end of the century it was discovered foreign iron ore was of a higher quality , and although the MSG works did smelt imports from Spain , Russia and Chile , it was furnaces in ports that could do the cheapest . |
| 15 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 16 | But this time it was to shove fifty U S dollars into my hand . |
| 17 | In fact it was coined seven years before Darwin published his theory , by Herbert Spencer . |
| 18 | Moreover , only a very small segment of jejunum was exposed to the full dose of cholera toxin and because of the rapid binding of the toxin to the mucosa it was presumed that cholera toxin was not available in the distal small bowel to induce secretion . |
| 19 | The old building seems to have fallen on hard times , for on September 13th 1976 at a meeting of the owners , the A.P.C.M. , and the Health Dept. it was decided that No. 3 Chapel Houses tenanted by Mr T. Hawkins , was not suitable as living accommodation and the Housing Services Committee placed a Closing Order on the premises . |
| 20 | 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 . |