Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only during the 1980s that it was finally laid to rest , enabling BR to run a fully modernised and streamlined freight system . |
| 2 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 3 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 4 | It was n't going to work . |
| 5 | But it was n't going to work . |
| 6 | Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal . |
| 7 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 8 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 9 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 10 | Sadly , it was not going to work . |
| 11 | He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work . |
| 12 | This huge monumental arch was erected in the early years of the nineteenth century to celebrate the victories of Napoleon , although it was swiftly re-dedicated to Peace when the Austrians returned . |
| 13 | The origins of dendrochronology lie in climate studies and it was then applied to dating . |
| 14 | Er , but it was then reduced to game , with pieces and counters |
| 15 | It was then carried to Hall Tower Field — bought by the maypole committee for £2,500 in 1976 — to await repainting and the renewal of the garlands . |
| 16 | In some of these respects ( such as improvisation , or blue tonality and pitch inflection ) it was more suited to transmission on recordings than in notation . |
| 17 | That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation . |
| 18 | Now , at last , here in Hochhauser , looking her best , with her dear , dear friends from the past , she knew it was all going to work . |
| 19 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 20 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |