Example sentences of "it was [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depth of the crisis emerged in late October when the US side hinted that it was poised to levy punitive tariffs on of EC goods worth US$1,000 million in retaliation for EC intransigence over oilseed subsidies . |
| 2 | It was developed to keep all aspects ‘ under one roof ’ in view of the fact that , outside London , Belfast is second to Manchester as the largest cargo airport in the UK . |
| 3 | However , with the advent of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , it was decided to replace these regulations with an amended version of the new design right by the Design Right ( Semiconductor Regulations ) 1989 , which came into force on 1st August 1989 . |
| 4 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 5 | The proportion of Sri Lankan judges received a further boost in 1923 when it was decided to fill most posts from the local bar , and by 1930 eighteen of forty-two appointments were held by lawyers . |
| 6 | But as the weather improved it was decided to airlift 380 men from the platform , leaving 117 on board . |
| 7 | Since an earlier study ( Wing , 1988 ) had reported no improvement in client experience of some of the first people to move out of Darenth Park Hospital , in services which themselves turned out to replicate many of the organizational features of the hospital , it was decided to include some measures of the physical and social environment as well as of client experience . |
| 8 | type cars , it was decided to fit top covers to these cars . |
| 9 | It was decided to have two selectors who have made significant contributions to contemporary art ; one artist and one critic . |
| 10 | It was decided to have 250 sets , each consisting of four postcards , printed . |
| 11 | As the existing windows were more than large enough to light the second-storey accommodation to building regulations standards , it was decided to shorten these openings . |
| 12 | It was decided to provide soft drinks and wine for those who did not want whisky and therefore two types of tickets , at different prices , would be on sale , £5 for whisky drinkers and £2 for the others . |
| 13 | It was decided to produce future versions in a form suitable for 32-bit processors and relatively fast disk access . |
| 14 | It was planned to send 80,000 tonnes of US food aid in the next six weeks under the 1992 budget , and 145,000 tonnes from Oct. 1 , after the beginning of the new fiscal year . |
| 15 | It was said to have two sets of strings only , at 8' pitch , and , on the evidence of its appearance , it was to be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 16 | On Jan. 29 the Iranian government denied claims made in the UK press that it was seeking to recruit nuclear scientists from the former Soviet Union . |
| 17 | ‘ It was built to prevent Fascist agents from the West entering the G.D.R . |
| 18 | The definition had been left somewhat vague in the legislation , though it was intended to embrace all matters relevant . |
| 19 | It was purchased to combat blue-green algae and it has worked perfectly . |
| 20 | Indeed it was used to teach such pilots as Flt Sub-Lt Warneford who was awarded a Victoria Cross for shooting down the first Zeppelin . |
| 21 | Much of the original wooden machinery is intact — it was used to drive two pairs of millstones for grinding corn . |
| 22 | It was used to print religious texts in Cyrillic characters and was able to function even during the period of Turkish overlordship after 1499 , when Cetinje was incorporated into the sandžak of Skadar . |
| 23 | It was used to try ecclesiastical matters and to settle disputed wills and land settlements . |
| 24 | Consequently , although the team did not wish to limit their investigations to one category only , it was agreed to examine financial matters first , and then review priorities for subsequent study . |
| 25 | It was agreed to explore several issues . |
| 26 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |
| 27 | It was agreed to have further meetings on the issue in advance of the US-Russian summit planned for June in Washington . |
| 28 | At the last Parish Council meeting it was agreed to buy some bulbs for planting around the centre of the village . |
| 29 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 30 | It was designed to play conventional records , so its existence is not apparent from record collections today . |