Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge leap forward had taken place in the eighties when he had used junk bonds to enlarge his empire at a fantastic pace — until suddenly it was realized in the States that Hauser controlled the largest private financial institution in the republic . |
| 2 | My memory of the occasion is rather vague otherwise perhaps it was obliterated by the fear I felt . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it was built as a wind break , ’ she said , ‘ there does n't seem to be anything to keep in or out except the wind here . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps it was caused by the complicated influences of the valley where the men seemed so often to remain unmarried , sometimes perhaps because , as Beuno held , their mothers said there was no one good enough for them , sometimes because there simply was n't anyone . |
| 5 | This means we can work out how a given circle might have been produced or drawn : perhaps it was traced by the movement of one end of a rigid rod whose other end was fixed , perhaps by a weight whirled round on string . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was attached to the great Frankish emperor originally , for one variant of the tale names the sleeping king as ‘ Charles ’ . |
| 7 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 8 | So it was developed by the ladies of the day for the men to do their work and they developed their special patterns like Arran stitches , which I 'm going to show you now , like Fair Isle stitches . |
| 9 | I tried to pull the post out but I could n't , it was about six feet long and so it was dragging on the ground . |
| 10 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 11 | This reduced price roughly equated to a 6% interest rate , which was passable in the 1960's , and was done on the recorded and explicit understanding that playing bondholders paid the full subscription ; although not obliged to do so it was regarded as a ‘ moral liberty ’ . |
| 12 | And so it was to prove in the late '60s and early ‘ 70s . |
| 13 | so it was left to the hardy annual of the clash of dates , although I for one never fully believed this to be a valid argument . |
| 14 | Soon it must have become obvious to the story-tellers that such a huge land could no longer be fitted into the Mediterranean , and so it was resited beyond the Gates of Hercules . |
| 15 | So it was considered by the staff that the best solution would be to close the school for the afternoon . |
| 16 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it was brought before the House , Baldwin came down , spoke movingly of ‘ our young King and Queen ’ who were about to ‘ dedicate themselves to the service of their people ’ , and pulled out , gently and without tension , all his old stops about industrial peace , democracy and the avoidance of strife . |
| 19 | Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left . |
| 20 | Jezrael felt full of sorrow but soon it was eclipsed by the memory of dancing with Maggie , giggling like kids when their picture-harmonics clashed . |
| 21 | For a long time he stood in front of the town map , gazing at it as though he would memorise its every feature , and when he turned away it was to ask for a cup of coffee . |
| 22 | Already it was whispering at the roots of grass , inciting it to rise , breathing on sheltered primroses , preaching its false gospel of resurrection and renewal , while underneath , the rot continued , the trampled snail returned to clay and beauty drew sustenance from a grave . |
| 23 | Finally it was put to the vote , and while I can not recall the actual figures it was something like forty in favour of the UK proposal , about thirty abstentions and just one ( Bulgaria ! ) against . |
| 24 | Finally it was taken into the adjoining paint shop where the painting was done by hand , a laborious task . |
| 25 | Finally it was abandoned in a back street in Kingsbury , and the four students thankfully made their way on foot to Wembley Tube Station . |
| 26 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 27 | Ideal ideog ideologically it was committed to a nation where private property was abolished . |
| 28 | Ostensibly it was to prosper from a mono-poly of trade with Spanish America , which would be bestowed upon it by the government in return for taking over the entire £9 million worth of unsecured national debt . |
| 29 | Almost always it was underlain by a passionate feeling that genuine rights were being trodden underfoot , that the structure of custom and tradition by which all but a small minority of Europeans lived was being wantonly shaken , that any increase in government activity must threaten the subject . |
| 30 | Thereafter it was used as a running-shed , serving the Promenade , Fleetwood and Marton routes in turn , until in 1945 it became a store for surplus trams . |