Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now erm this is this is archetypical group behaviour , but whatever it is , it can not necessarily reflect erm that individual 's own erm peculiar self as it were using peculiar in the in the strict sense and proper to them , because as we 've seen what happens in a group is , is , is the individual . |
| 2 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 3 | If we were correct in our hypothesis of Jesus 's marriage and children , or even if it were believed true at the time , it would do much to explain the agreed rapport between Constantine and the Roman Church . |
| 4 | It was getting noisy in the wood . |
| 5 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 6 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 7 | It was cut low across the top and high above the thighs , and for a moment Lucy was stopped short by the thought that Jesus , it looked hell to wear , but would n't it just kill 'em on the disco floor back home ? |
| 8 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 9 | It was kept cool for the sake of the product , and the décor itself was cool . |
| 10 | It was kept clean by the simple method of scrubbing it with fine sand — a commodity in no short supply during Richard 's desert campaigns ! |
| 11 | It was made famous by the then Labour education chairman who said , and I quote , I am a spendthrift , I love to spend the rate payers ' money . |
| 12 | Such legislation was a response to liberal humanitarianism but it was made possible by the inevitable tendency of industrial processes to require more skilled labour . |
| 13 | It was made explicit by the inclusion in those Conventions of the famous provision in the Preamble which has been known as the Martens clause . |
| 14 | All development was brought under control ; with certain exceptions , it was made subject to the permission of the local planning authority . |
| 15 | It was made tiny by the three men standing around the bed , but Patrick only recognized the bearded Dan Brady . |
| 16 | The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself . |
| 17 | The submission was however inconsistent with the law as stated by this House in Reg. v. Governor of Pentonville Prison , Ex parte Sinclair [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 64 , 81–92 , in which it was made clear in the speech of Lord Ackner ( with which the remainder of the Appellate Committee agreed ) that , under the provisions of the Extradition Act 1870 , the powers of the magistrate are specifically laid down in sections 3(1) , 8 , 9 and 10 of the Act ; and that in consequence , apart from consideration where appropriate whether the offence in question was an offence of a political character , the magistrate is not concerned with questions of foreign law at all , being concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to an English crime or crimes specified in the Secretary of State 's order to proceed . |
| 18 | A Prison Office spokesman denied the allegations , claiming : ‘ It was made clear in the autumn statement last year that there would be no construction work on the jail until 1995/6 . |
| 19 | A Prison Office spokesman denied the allegations , claiming : ‘ It was made clear in the autumn statement last year that there would be no construction work on the jail until 1995/6 . |
| 20 | But a Home Office spokesman denied the allegations , claiming : ‘ It was made clear in the autumn statement last year that there would be no construction work on the jail until 1995/6 . |
| 21 | Different books of the New Testament have different ways of describing the indescribable , that is , the nature of Christ , and the first three centuries of Christendom are a history of ceaseless dispute among the most learned doctors of the Church as to what this nature was , and how it was made manifest during the period of the Incarnation . |
| 22 | One further celebration was when , on Monday , Leslie celebrated his 84th birthday , it was made special by the present from granddaughter Deborah Cuff , who organised a chat on gardening with television celebrity Alan Titchmarsh ! |
| 23 | It was painted purple with the company name in white and made the journey to London twice weekly . |
| 24 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 25 | For example the western margin of southern Africa has a relatively narrow continental shelf and a well-developed marginal upwarp , whereas the opposing margin of the eastern coast of southern South America to which it was joined prior to the break-up of Gondwana has a very broad continental shelf and no significant marginal upwarp . |
| 26 | This was the part he had dreamt of night after night in that living room and now — astoundingly — it was to come true in the birthplace of Shakespeare with a great company all around his son . |
| 27 | Clara did not enjoy her sausage , for it was burned black on the outside and raw in the middle , and her mother had told her that it was impossible not to get worms from raw sausage meat , but the taste of the damp mince with its bitter crust remained a strong reminder of illicit pleasure . |
| 28 | An hour later it was steaming hot inside the hall and sweat was running down Maggie 's back and front . |
| 29 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 30 | Under Innocent it was to become commonplace in the official correspondence of the curia . |