Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Exhibitors Herald described The Song of Life ( 1922 ) as being ‘ an appealing and forceful story of life 's drab realities ’ and in particular of ‘ the dull existence of a track laborer 's wife ’ it was complimenting worthy endeavour rather than laying the foundation for a blockbuster . |
| 2 | He also suspected it was taking poor Sombro even longer to get home after a heavy session ! |
| 3 | It was getting early evening now , it was getting time to eat . |
| 4 | RICHMOND Royal Park in southwest London has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the wildlife preserved there since it was created three centuries ago . |
| 5 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 6 | Given the go-ahead in 1793 , it was completed 30 years later . |
| 7 | The noise that came with it was heard fifty miles away . |
| 8 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 9 | Little danger as there was of another martyrdom , there was even less chance of the clergy satisfying their grievances at Edward 's expense : the most significant thing about the legislation of May 1341 is how easily it was repealed five months later . |
| 10 | ‘ It was arranged some time ago . ’ |
| 11 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 12 | They divided the territory in two , though it was reunited thirty years later . |
| 13 | Unfortunately we were not able to meet all the requirements for County support and it was decided some time ago that we would go ahead with an experimental opening without it . |
| 14 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 15 | It was written four years ago by Neil , Lea , John and Charlie Heather and is based on their teenage experiences . |
| 16 | Significantly , it was written one night when Cash was sitting around at home with the likes of Bob Dylan , Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash . |
| 17 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 18 | It was revealed many years later that Sid had not actually bought the winning ticket but had found it mysteriously floating in his half-time Bovril . |
| 19 | It was hardship in this , that er , perhaps the hardest time came after it when er , well it was called public assistance then , social security payments had to be payed back . |
| 20 | An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes . |
| 21 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 22 | It was imposed fourteen months ago , following nationalist protests in which about fifty people died . |
| 23 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 24 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 25 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 26 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 27 | Microsoft Corp told Reuter that its retail shipments of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade , which have sold more than 2m copies worldwide since it was introduced two weeks ago , are supply-constrained — it just ca n't duplicate the thing fast enough . |
| 28 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 29 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 30 | It was taken 300 miles up , from a satellite . |