Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anglican chant is a distinctive way of singing the Psalms and it would be a pity if it were lost altogether in the parishes . |
| 2 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 3 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 4 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 5 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 6 | At first glance , late Anglo-Saxon political history portrays a state riven by internal discord and highly vulnerable to external enemies : only fifty years after the Danish conquest it was subjugated again by the Normans . |
| 7 | ‘ So what do we do ? ’ asked Jimmy , looking back at the cabinet where it was wedged tight at the office door . |
| 8 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 9 | It was created early in the twelfth century and in local marble , with the consequence that , far from being eroded , it has become smooth and polished , making a strong contrast with the worn stonework in which it is set . |
| 10 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 11 | It was illustrated yesterday by the pairing of Nick Faldo with John Daly ; Boycott batting with Botham , Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy . |
| 12 | It was seen earlier in the book that there are inconsistencies between different components of what may be loosely called the finance function . |
| 13 | When it was done before in the republic , you wan na quote history , you wan na quote it accurately , it was done with the agreement of a sovereign people . |
| 14 | and all was accurately , now if it was done really with the hope that the council and winder would get together and come to some decent arrangement and at the other side of er Lancaster er down by the |
| 15 | The the forecast of there was nine thousand on the er bypass when it was completed fully to the A fifty nine . |
| 16 | Shaped like a T-square , it was placed horizontally with the crosshead laid towards the east in the forenoon , thereby casting a shadow along the stem which was graduated with marks for six hours . |
| 17 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 18 | And then it was taken out and er dripped and cleaned , and then it was hung up in the kitchen to dry , and that was how the hams were done . |
| 19 | but erm er I think that er that picture I borrowed , I mean with her permission of course , erm and er I think it was hung up in the bathroom or somewhere , which was not the best place for a photograph to be really . |
| 20 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 21 | His timing was good , though it was determined mainly by the exigencies of the situation . |
| 22 | One day the settee is opposite the door , the next it is where the telly was before it was swapped round with the nest of tables . |
| 23 | It was packed tight along the whole of its length with gold coin . |
| 24 | Once inside , Belinda noted with relief that it was lit mainly by the dim , warm yellow of candles in the centre of each table , which would soften the contours of her figure and save her from a self-consciousness that was probably unnecessary in any case … |
| 25 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 26 | It was opposed only by the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano , son of Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas who pioneered land distribution in the 1930s . |
| 27 | All are agreed , however , that it is the nature of the ‘ matter ’ which is important , and it was recognised early in the history of the Hague Conventions on Civil Procedure that some civil or commercial matters could arise in the context of an administrative jurisdiction . |
| 28 | And that in fact was , produced a split vote in the police authority fifty fifty , and it , it was chucked out by the chairman 's casting vote . |
| 29 | It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece . |
| 30 | It was played incessantly on the radio and at least once at every dance I went to , and the haunting melody was nearly always in my mind . |