Example sentences of "it was [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither Bradford nor his successors obtained a charter for the colony , and because of this it was absorbed into the much larger colony of Massachusetts in 1691 . |
| 2 | It was seen as the most ‘ natural ’ division given the separate roles of men and women in society . |
| 3 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 4 | Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance . |
| 5 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 6 | It was followed by the much more extravagant and fanciful Columbia Market , but this overawed potential vendors , who were not allowed to do too many things ( like sticking bills on the columns inside ) , while potential buyers of the poorer classes did not dare to put a foot inside it . |
| 7 | It was renamed to the more familiar hydrogen in 1790 and ousted hot air as the preferred lifting agent for the next thirty years . |
| 8 | It was headed with the oddly prophetic ‘ But died thy sister for her love , my boy ? ’ |
| 9 | It was built in the later twelfth century and altered again about 1258 . |
| 10 | It was built in the later fifteenth century and was seriously damaged in 1944 , but is now excellently restored . |
| 11 | ‘ A little bit of it was brought into the very first episode , the pilot , where I was allowed to play her slightly weird . |
| 12 | By the end of the war , Bloomsbury House maintained a small department of welfare workers whose job it was to care for the chronically ill . |
| 13 | Resale-price maintenance ( RPM ) was the arrangement whereby the price of an article — an item of grocery or a washing-machine — was kept the same whether it was sold in the most efficient supermarket or the most run-down corner shop . |
| 14 | It was climbed by the well known singer Anthony Bennett . |
| 15 | No. 140 is a purely Leipzig piece dating from 1731 when it was sung on the rarely occurring Twenty Seventh Sunday after Trinity . |
| 16 | There was a time when in railroad terminal architecture it was considered as the most necessary adjunct ( or evil ) . |
| 17 | But it was countered by the somewhat cooler attitude towards the royal family that had emerged in recent years , some of it captured in an ‘ anti-jubilee ’ number of the New Statesman edited by Anthony Howard . |
| 18 | The implication is that the R , D and D or centre-periphery model had been wrongly conceived in its application to education , because it was premised on the possibly mistaken view that people are rational beings who will implement ideas that have been demonstrated to be effective . |