Example sentences of "it was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was condemned by the English bishops , who found twenty-nine heretical propositions in it . |
| 2 | It was fractured with a solvent-cleaned chisel , and the outer orange layer discarded . |
| 3 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 4 | Gaskell was actively involved with the firm until the 1870s , after which he remained a director until November 1890 , when it was absorbed into the United Alkali Co . |
| 5 | Where this problem was found at high level on the aisle gable walls , it was owed to a poor constructional detail . |
| 6 | It was confirmed by the Constitutional Tribunal on Jan. 30 , 1991 , after much discussion , including opposition from the Orthodox Church and secular associations . |
| 7 | He seeks to restore the status quo as it was between July 1990 and September 1991 and as it was confirmed by the Australian court in the divorce proceedings . |
| 8 | If laboratory tests for HIV were not performed or gave indeterminate results , any of the conditions in the list below would indicate AIDS if it was diagnosed by a definitive method and the patient had none of the other causes of immunodeficiency listed below that could explain the occurrence of the indicator disease : |
| 9 | Approximately 1,250 pages of new information were produced by 3.5 typists , and this involved a lot of unpaid overtime as it was supported with a mere extra £1,000 for limited additional typing help . |
| 10 | you had a a slate like you 've got on the roof , but it it was bound with a wooden frame . |
| 11 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
| 12 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 13 | Clara was not fully aware of Miss Haines ' interest , because it was hidden by a sharp and brisk demeanour , and by an almost excessive severity , so she worked all the harder in her efforts to impress . |
| 14 | It was struck by a crowded express train from Paddington travelling at a hundred miles an hour along the Great Western line near Swindon . |
| 15 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 16 | This happened in New England over religious issues ; it was to happen in a great many other places , usually for less solemn reasons , over the next three centuries . |
| 17 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 18 | A spokesman said : ‘ We do n't believe it was caused by a normal operational failure . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 21 | It was illustrated in a 15th century manuscript , and Gerard referred to it as being useful for preserving the eyesight ; Culpeper advised its use for those " that are bit with serpents or have eat … mushrooms " . |
| 22 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 23 | It was questioned within the International Law Commission whether the Vienna Convention on International Organisations should differentiate between a State that is completely outside the treaty relationship , ‘ a stranger ’ , and a member of the organisation , a non-party to a particular treaty concluded by the organisation , but nevertheless bound by its commitments of membership . |
| 24 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 25 | Such was the state of affairs when Ostorius Scapula arrived to take over the governorship from Aulus Plautius , that it was seen as a serious crisis . |
| 26 | Hopkins took charge of production — it was seen as a part-time post , leaving him free for other work — but where was the cash to come from' ? |
| 27 | It was seen as a temporary move to improve liquidity over Christmas , rather than an indication of a new trend in interest rates . |
| 28 | They also show that political activity had by no means ousted the republicans ' commitment to armed force ; indeed it was seen as a necessary preliminary to the resumption of the military campaign . |
| 29 | It could 've been abandoned , they could have moved on but maybe it was seen as a taboo place , we just do n't know . |
| 30 | The police authorities might look askance at the bottle of beer but to the constables it was seen as a legitimate reward for a little extra service . |