Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |
| 2 | ‘ On the one hand , it was supposed to be BCCI 's auditor , while on the other hand , it was earning huge fees from other parts of BCCI as management consultants . ’ |
| 3 | Li Yuan watched the Marshal while he talked , barely referring to the folder in his lap , unless it was to take some diagram from it and hand it to Tolonen . |
| 4 | Mann 's best-selling brew was its ‘ entire ’ , or porter , but like other East End brewers it was facing growing competition from Burton-brewed pale ales . |
| 5 | Although the rebels had begun an air ferry with six planes they had at their disposal , it was clear that the rate of transfer thus achieved was much too slow and that the only hope of improving it was to obtain more planes from outside Spain . |
| 6 | An object with what appeared to be a gun barrel pointing from it was found 30 yards from where Mr Peter Jowett 's body lay . |
| 7 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 8 | If the government wanted to encourage a new trade in supplying meal to the populace , the last way to do it was to remove all profit from the enterprise . |
| 9 | The senator had just told me how difficult it was to extract any sense from his son , yet apparently Rickie was not so far gone as the senator had suggested . |