Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second approach , two things were significant : that a major change in British industry ( the fact that it was experiencing increasing competitive difficuIties ) was in turn being reflected in geographical changes , and that these geographical changes ( for instance , the decentralization in an effort to cut costs ) were themselves one way in which British industry was seeking to combat the growing pressures upon it . |
| 2 | The move towards a comprehensive system was one in which it was hoped artificial organisational barriers to the development of all pupils would be removed . |
| 3 | Between April and August 1989 eight Palestinian activists in the West Bank and Gaza were allegedly killed by so-called " death squads " ; while the IDF admitted that it was running special undercover units , it insisted that their primary purpose was gathering intelligence . |
| 4 | It was doing specialist decorative finishes commercially , in the late 1980s , that she began to recognise paint 's abundant potentialities . |
| 5 | It was doing specialist decorative finishes commercially , in the late 1980s , that she began to recognise paint 's abundant potentialities . |
| 6 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |