Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 2 | In large measure it was responding to the rapid industrialization of Russia 's Great Power rivals . |
| 3 | Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners . |
| 4 | I think it was going to the extreme heat and damp down in , you know whether it was cold in . |
| 5 | On Sept. 13 , 1991 , the Bank of France announced that it was returning to the Baltic states between two and three tonnes of gold which had been deposited in 1932-36 . |