Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 2 | Following municipal law agency principles a third party could claim that it was bound with respect to the protectorate provided the agent had acted within the scope of its express , implied , or apparent authority . |
| 3 | Every time it lifted its head and pirouetted , it registered the new direction it was taking in relation to the sun . |
| 4 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 5 | 's instructions : Rex Chainbelt 's conduct was interference by unlawful means because it was done in obedience to the orders of S.1. which were in contempt of court . |
| 6 | Although multi-national and multi-lingual , it was united in loyalty to the Tsar ; the cavalry was well led and the infantry competent and brave . |
| 7 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 8 | ( It was believed by Descartes to be the seat of the soul . ) |
| 9 | We consent to that and your Lordship one direction to help us when we come to calculating interest is one of the earliest figures that your Lordship came to and it was dealing with care to date . |
| 10 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 11 | It was defeated by votes to 17 . |
| 12 | It was formed in response to the urban riots in the late 1960s , although there had previously been community activity concentrated on winning historic and architectural recognition for the area . |
| 13 | It was written in response to Lord Owen 's call for military intervention to end the bloody civil war and ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by Serbs . |
| 14 | It was written in reply to an inquiry from an abbot , probably the abbot of Fécamp , who was engaged in rebuilding his abbey church . |
| 15 | The challenge to the council 's resolution in Wandsworth LBC v. Winder was collateral in two ways : it was made in answer to a claim for possession of the premises by the Council , and it was incidental to an assertion of a contractual right under the lease . |
| 16 | It was flown by Wade to fourth place in the 1938 Thompson Trophy race . |
| 17 | The village achieved its premier cru status in 1985 when it was upgraded from 88% to 90% . |
| 18 | Trafalgar bought the Port Glasgow yard from British Shipbuilders for just £12 million in 1984 , soon after it was converted from shipbuilding to offshore construction work . |
| 19 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |
| 20 | Company exhibitions manager Rob Axon said : ‘ It was built from scratch to our own design and so will prove far better than the old trailer . |
| 21 | It was extended to 18- to 20-year-olds in 1969 . |
| 22 | But even where it was extended from churches to houses , a spiritual asceticism seems to be its distinguishing characteristic . |
| 23 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 24 | However , the sea air deteriorated the steel work and it was offered on loan to the MRT where it was cosmetically restored and placed on display . |
| 25 | One of them died almost immediately ; its little body was dressed in a clean nightdress and linen cap and its arms were folded on its breast ; then it was taken at night to be buried . |
| 26 | " The roof did not actually leak very much before it was taken in hand to be repaired : but is now reported to be in need of more repairs . " |
| 27 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |
| 28 | The reason for this is clear in Collins MR 's judgment where it was said that , in the case of a purchase of goods capable of a multitude of purposes , in order to invoke the implied condition , it was necessary to show that the goods were sold with reference to a particular purpose : … in order to give rise to the implication of a warranty , it is necessary to show that , though the article sold was capable of general use for many purposes , in the particular case it was sold with reference to a particular purpose . |
| 29 | It was hoped to use the Crown allotment in Exmoor Forest for this purpose , but after partition the Commissioners decided that it would not in fact be suitable , and in 1818 it was sold for £50,000 to a Mr Knight , who enclosed it . |
| 30 | It was , it was going from side to side . |