Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the public on Møn was a small one and the park was visited primarily by public servants from other parts of Denmark , whose job it was to plant out public places — and also by visitors to the Villa and The Tamarisks . |
| 2 | Already replaced once in June after being splattered with paint , it was replaced again last week with a new painting featuring a bluer sky . |
| 3 | It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . |
| 4 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
| 5 | The pinder , whose job it was to round up stray animals and keep them in the pinfold , to be released on payment of a fine , was also known as the axeman . |
| 6 | So we left and the boss told me that how he would work it out and how it would take probably something in the order of two thirds of that particular van that w we were going to use , if it was packed about six foot high . |
| 7 | The Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was setting up working groups to examine the scope for changing some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 8 | But even here it was surprising how few coins were found in extensive clearance and in some cases scarcely more than half-a-dozen were recorded . |
| 9 | It was blown up last year . |
| 10 | When the collection was still in the palazzo ( it was moved about 60 years ago ) it was the most important private library in Milan . |
| 11 | men excluded from wo , some part or other because it was causing so many problems . |
| 12 | It was pointed out that SSC grades jobs , not SMT . |
| 13 | As you will recall , it was decided earlier this year , to adopt the recommendations of the Membership Working Party and introduce an annual Professional Affiliation Fee of £6 for all Society teachers . |
| 14 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 15 | The commission could buy land either by agreement or compulsorily , and it was given very wide powers for this purpose . |
| 16 | It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 . |
| 17 | It was written almost 100 years ago by a little-known American . |
| 18 | AN experimental Dambusters ‘ bouncing bomb ’ will be raised by helicopter tomorrow from waters where it was tested nearly 50 years ago . |
| 19 | It was realized furthermore that grazing by the deer was essential to the survival of the open ‘ lawns ’ in the New Forest , and so the 1851 Act was abandoned . |
| 20 | Upon closer inspection of the tidal Cart , however , it was realized only two hours would be available during high tide for the operation . |
| 21 | It was revealed yesterday another company , not yet named , is to provide a service between Prebend Row in the town centre , up Haughton Road to Albert Hill . |
| 22 | Another criticism was that the homes were prone to fire , and it was revealed how one householder had accidentally set his property alight with a blow-torch . |
| 23 | As the story unfolded during questioning it was revealed how Guiding Lights had stayed safe for so long . |
| 24 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 25 | In time , it was to take only three minutes from " alarm " to " all ill " — an impressive performance , especially with numbers exceeding 400 with the arrival of " refugees " from William Hulme 's Grammar School and the Manchester Grammar School . |
| 26 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 27 | But I did n't look , I did n't stop , it was raining so bad Thursday morning and windy that I I went to the market , I cut straight through and went up and Di went to get the paper then he went . |
| 28 | It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco . |
| 29 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 30 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |