Example sentences of "[noun sg] it was [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the Store it was considered bad manners , while Outside … well , there were so many other things that killed nomes in any case . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact it was coined seven years before Darwin published his theory , by Herbert Spencer . |
| 5 | 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 . |