Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was condemned by the English bishops , who found twenty-nine heretical propositions in it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was confirmed by the Constitutional Tribunal on Jan. 30 , 1991 , after much discussion , including opposition from the Orthodox Church and secular associations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was seen as the key element in the proposed transformation of the nation . |
| 11 | As it happened , re-emigration was a non-starter , but it remained government policy and , until the war , it was seen as the only long-term solution to the refugee problem . |
| 12 | In the mid-1970s , it was seen by the Labour administration as part of a comprehensive strategy towards regional economic and physical development in that the SDA 's activities were to be mirrored in Wales by the Welsh Development Agency ( WDA ) and in England by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) . |
| 13 | It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime . |
| 14 | The reason for that is it was done on the old viewing system . |
| 15 | ‘ It was done with the best of motives . |
| 16 | And it was done for the best , although I must admit it did n't turn out like that . |
| 17 | And er this of course er we th the office was being run I would think in the early twenties very much like it was done in the late nineties . |
| 18 | Most of it was done in the seventies , some was done in the sixties . |
| 19 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 20 | It was completed in the 1980s and I was already daring to suggest that Fascism could return . |
| 21 | When , in 1968 , a new Theatres Act swept away the censorship of plays by the Lord Chamberlain , it was replaced with the 1959 test of obscenity , but added a qualifying provision that no case could be brought without the consent of the Attorney General . |
| 22 | It was replaced with the elegant stone-built building during the 19th century . |
| 23 | This was deemed to be discriminatory according to the European Directive on payment of benefits , and it was replaced with the severe disablement allowance for all claimants in 1984 . |
| 24 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 25 | In the meantime an airship had caught fire in the USA , ending the use there of the lethal explosive hydrogen as a lifting gas ; it was replaced by the safer helium . |
| 26 | Captain Rhodes ( Joseph Pilato ) and crazy scientists appear in this version , but it was too huge and ambitious , even with cuts , so it was replaced by the final script as actually used in the film . |
| 27 | Early in the night of 617 June there was a great summer storm , with thunder , lightning and heavy rain ; when the storm subsided , it was replaced by the uninterrupted flashes of bursting shells . |
| 28 | In the beginning there was great ceremonial fanfare for the Cup as it was feted throughout the great salons of the land . |
| 29 | Although later boundary changes occasioned by the fortunes of war effectively restricted its jurisdiction , the patriarchate remained until 1766 , when , together with the archbishopric of Ohrid , it was placed under the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople . |
| 30 | More broadly , it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence . |