Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ha the er When it was cut up like that , in the house there was er |
| 2 | 77 percent of it was cut off in 1922 and called Trans-Jordan ; the remaining section was partitioned by the United Nations in 1947 . |
| 3 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 4 | It was attended by over 200 representatives of local community , tenants , unemployed , and political groups . |
| 5 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 6 | In some places the water was deep , in others it was silted up in little , narrow islands of spiky , brown reeds . |
| 7 | Chester had put together a deal for the centre which would have cost the Government nothing because it was tied in with private sector development . |
| 8 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 9 | Five British soldiers were killed in Londonderry , 10 were seriously injured and about 18 residents of a nearby housing estate were treated in hospital when early on Oct. 24 a man was forced by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) to drive a van packed with explosives into an Army checkpoint , where it was blown up by remote control . |
| 10 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 11 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 12 | The road was too rough for one thought to rest long in mind before it was cannoned out by another . |
| 13 | He had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it , I think if it was pointed out in future years , that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently . |
| 14 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 15 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 16 | It was watered down to three half days . |
| 17 | I then told him it was the Sun and I explained all about the Sun being a star and how it was made up of hot gases , and it was in the Galaxy , and our galaxy was only one of lots of galaxies . |
| 18 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 19 | It was made up of tiny dots . |
| 20 | Once more he was overcome with a strange feeling , but this he could recognise , for it was made up of unadulterated fear . |
| 21 | Designed by Roger Dean , of the Royal College of Art , it was made up of 12 polyurethane foam sections joined together with contact adhesive to form a high dome , 4ft in diameter . |
| 22 | I was really pissed off when it was called off at 5.20 |
| 23 | It was called off within twenty-four hours after extensive rioting at a number of men–s prisons . |
| 24 | The young man who was to have done it was called back to active service in the RAF and Burton stepped forward . |
| 25 | Almondsbury were back on level terms two minutes after the break when Storey was allowed to centre , and although Tony Price cleared off the line , it was followed up by another player to hammer in . |
| 26 | I suppose I 'd better not tell him that thing you said about his face looking as if it was carved out of corned beef . |
| 27 | The interesting fact was that it was recorded back in 1990 as part of a series of people at work and was delayed because of the Gulf War . |
| 28 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 29 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 30 | It was carried out under general anaesthesia or local anaesthesia with intravenous sedation . |