Example sentences of "it was [verb] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 2 | Settlement of the issues of border troops and conventional forces would take place following discussions over the subsequent two months , although it was recognized in the protocols that Ukraine was creating its own armed forces as of Jan. 3 , 1992 . |
| 3 | All the houses looked like Gloucester in the olden days andf it was snowing in the streets . |
| 4 | The sides of the arch were destroyed in the Middle Ages when it was incorporated in the fortifications . |
| 5 | It was kept in the ladies ' waiting room and was used by staff and their families , and by stranded passengers . |
| 6 | Initially this oppositional thought was directed against the rationalism of the Enlightenment as it was expressed in the doctrines of the French Revolution and in the practices of the developing capitalist economy ; and in Germany especially , it was associated with the Romantic movement . |
| 7 | It was written in the stars |
| 8 | Felt broke up in 1989 , not because of the usual tired catalogue of ‘ musical differences ’ or drug problems , but because it was written in the stars that they would break up . |
| 9 | It was written in the foothills of the Wicklow mountains in Ireland , and is almost entirely acoustic-based . |
| 10 | The last brush stroke was put in by 3am on the day it was unveiled in the children 's ward at South Cleveland Hospital ! |
| 11 | Of course it was challenged in the discussions , but the outcome is that set out in the Anglo-Italian paper . |
| 12 | It was rediscovered in the mid-1950s by the leading authority on Chinese science and technology , Dr Joseph Needham of Cambridge . |
| 13 | When it was built it was described in the letters pages of the Daily Telegraph as ’ a monsterous erection , ’ but the people of Faringdon would n't be without their folly now . |
| 14 | cos it was put in the hands of Black Horse by Miss |
| 15 | It was alleged in the articles that the leader of the council had been a prime mover in the share dealings . |
| 16 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 17 | After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats . |
| 18 | After all , it was attempted in the mid-1950s with the creation of the Baghdad pact — and that led to the collapse of the pro-Western Hashimite monarchy in Iraq , the event from which , ultimately , the Saddam Hussein regime sprang . |
| 19 | ‘ It could n't have been entirely secret since you say it was reported in the papers . |
| 20 | It was reported in the Times Educational Supplement that Ferndale Comprehensive School in Mid-Glamorgan issued all of its first year pupils with free uniform and sports clothing . |
| 21 | It was reported in The Times of 6th March 1975 that Mr Toffrey Reeves , a surveyor for the National House Owners Association , which is a cut-price conveyancing group operating in England , was ordered in the High Court on 5th March to pay £3,000 damages to a client for failing to detect structural defects in the house he bought . |
| 22 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 23 | It was held in the circumstances that the defendant was negligent in not completely extinguishing the fire and that the Act of 1774 provided no defence . |