Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Incidentally , I suspect the risks of abuse would be considerably less if the ‘ pay ’ were fought for and won by a united feminist campaign on the grounds that housewives work and deserve money for that reason , than if it were graciously granted by government in a mood of pronatalist , pro-family , antifeminist zeal to cut the costs of the social services . ) |
| 2 | It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states . |
| 3 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 4 | It was eventually taken into state care in 1912 , and has been open to the public ever since . |
| 5 | The ability of the electoral system to produce a government in the way previously expected of it was thus called into question . |
| 6 | The limpness of the body as it was thus laid in place was pitiful . |
| 7 | When Henry V landed for the first time on French soil nearly forty years later , it was soon put beyond doubt that in his artillery he possessed a potential match-winner . |
| 8 | It was soon discontinued for lack of patronage ! |
| 9 | It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while . |
| 10 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 11 | It was only during the 1980s that it was finally laid to rest , enabling BR to run a fully modernised and streamlined freight system . |
| 12 | However , the ball struck Ranson on the hand and though referee Alf Buksh was unsighted it was clearly seen by linesman Madgwick . |
| 13 | It was plainly furnished with wood-panelling . |
| 14 | This was specific because it was competitively inhibited by peptide 15 but not by an unrelated peptide , peptide 1 ( compare tracks 6 and 5 ) . |
| 15 | How much of it was fundamentally affected by editing and/or translation ? |
| 16 | He squinted to make out the figure above the nearest open door , but it was completely encrusted with grime ; the name and number above the next building however , was Number Two . |
| 17 | Though it was completely lacking in originality its publication in Western Europe drew the admiration of many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment . |
| 18 | It was completely blocked off coach could n't go backwards because there was cars behind it . |
| 19 | When it returned it was completely transformed in appearance . |
| 20 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 21 | It had been redecorated in Baroque style in the eighteenth century , but its Medieval character had been retained until it was wantonly destroyed by order of the Germans in the Second World War . |
| 22 | I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place . |
| 23 | Although it was generally believed in Thrush Green that ‘ poor Dimity was put upon by Ella ’ , it was not the case . |
| 24 | It was generally built on land assembled by the local authority . |
| 25 | The Roman theatre , when built on a new site , differed from the Greek pattern in that it was generally constructed above ground and not hollowed out from the hillside . |
| 26 | By the time Coleman picked up the threads of the plot in February 1987 , there was still no clear plan of attack , although it was generally agreed among Hurley and his colleagues that luring Younis into a drug deal was probably the key , and that a lot of political hassle would be avoided if he could be taken , say , in international waters . |
| 27 | Charles perhaps still more than his father regarded St Denis as both personal and dynastic patron ; and though the earliest evidence of this comes from the early years of his own reign , it was surely rooted in childhood habits . |
| 28 | It turned out that it was n't sited in farming country but in Main Street , Hull . |
| 29 | It was n't to do with change . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't think it was n't done with malice , she 's just |