Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same chapter in Chronic Diseases highlights this thus ‘ In taking one and the same medicine repeatedly ( which is indispensable to secure the cure of a serious chronic disease ) , if the dose is in every case varied and modified only a little in its degree of dynamization , then the vital force of the patient will calmly , and as it were willingly receive the same medicine even at brief intervals very many times in succession with the best results , every time increasing the well-being of the patient . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 3 | It was duly dispatched the following morning with Aurangzeb 's chief eunuch , I'tibar Khan . |
| 4 | When Mrs Funnell had visited him , she had upbraided him firmly for his deception and he , in his most plaintive voice , had said , ‘ I 'm a man , and it was either taking a decent woman or resorting to casual encounters . |
| 5 | However , a few months later it was officially announced the Orange route had been chosen as part of a £100m plus scheme to dual the A5 across Anglesey . |
| 6 | Oxford actually while it was open had a good reputation amongst prisoners for the relationship between staff and prisoners . |
| 7 | In the first half of the nineteenth century it was generally believed the menstrual flow came from an excess of nutrients in the female . |
| 8 | No , but no , but obviously no , th the association was only with cricket not with the product , so it was n't enhancing the initial product |
| 9 | But although the GTP produced a massive land boom , it was not given the vast land grants of its predecessor , the CPR . |
| 10 | There was no W , since it was not reckoned a proper letter in its own right , but only a double U , which is how we pronounce it . |
| 11 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 12 | And it was not helping the poor that kept me going , but the thought of having to admit that I had no stomach . |
| 13 | The Foreign Office request puzzled him , for it was not to see the Foreign Secretary with whom he normally dealt , but the Home Secretary , Sir Harry Marriott . |
| 14 | There was however one problem , it was not reaching the Protestant churches , as it was exclusively Roman Catholic . |
| 15 | It was not to have a long future , although Mary summoned it late in 1553 to announce her proposed marriage to Philip of Castile . |
| 16 | ‘ The Community as a whole should make it absolutely clear that it would warmly welcome East Germany joining West Germany on the basis that it was not admitting a new member state to the Community , but simply recognising the extension of the territory of an existing member ’ , he stated . |
| 17 | It was not spelt the same way for a start . |
| 18 | Abbey Life claimed it was not making a political statement or dealing in anti-Labour propaganda . |
| 19 | It was not considered an easy or even feasible task to prove this relationship , but the North East CAB area policy comment sub-committee nevertheless launched a pilot study . |
| 20 | Moreover , it was also draining the working class : in 1917 there had been three million workers employed in Russian industry , by the winter of 1920–1 the number had declined to 1,480,000 . |
| 21 | It was also handed a symbolic but fairly meaningless victory in having two orders varied . |
| 22 | It was also to assimilate the various discontents and disaffections into the one comprehensive sense of outrage , and further to inflame opinion so that what had already been enthusiasm , to the point of violence , for reform , now became passion . |
| 23 | It was already broken the second day of . |
| 24 | It was already known the radioactive gas was linked to lung cancer . |
| 25 | ( The concept of invariance was definitely the " in " subject at the time and it was later to provide a central idea in the theory of relativity . ) |
| 26 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 27 | The triumphal arch or , as it was earlier called the monumental arch , is the most typical of all the forms . |
| 28 | Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change . |
| 29 | When Mrs Moreen bethought herself of this pretext for getting rid of their companion , Pemberton supposed it was precisely to approach the delicate subject of his remuneration ( 7 ) . |
| 30 | It was mainly to make a good impression on the new tribe . |