Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chateaubriand , who happened to be visiting Arenenberg was asked by the young author for his opinion of the work , and the great writer graciously suggested that it would be improved if , where the word ‘ people ’ occurred , the Prince were to replace it with ‘ nation ’ . |
| 2 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 3 | The recommendation for the West was to divide it into three regions : South-west ( Dumfries and Galloway ) ; Central — based on the Falkirk-Stirling area ; and the West or Clyde Valley ( Strathclyde ) . |
| 4 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 5 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 6 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 7 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 8 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 9 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 10 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 11 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 12 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 13 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 14 | One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church . |
| 15 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 16 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 17 | Well I thought the idea was to put it on one of the original walls though . |
| 18 | There was the Cambridge Rapist in his mask with references to ‘ A Hard Day 's Night ’ — the idea was to link it to the death of The Beatles ' manager , Brian Epstein , during a supposed bout of homosexual S&M . |
| 19 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 20 | He stated that ‘ it ought to be inferred that … one of the purposes of the advertisement was to enable it to be used by smokers as ammunition to persuade others that their habit was not dangerous to the health of anyone except perhaps their own . ’ |