Example sentences of "it was [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How amusing it was to watch this young man , he thought . |
| 2 | ‘ It was getting that poor man free that took the time , ’ said Rachel . |
| 3 | It was to repel these undesirable side-effects of the open-door policy that the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign was started in the winter of 1983 . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 5 | But i I did feel it was airing those possible scenarios to get a reaction and I think the forty minutes we 've had discussing that have been extremely valuable as far as we 're concerned . |
| 6 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was to exploit this slight sign of thaw that Eisenhower immediately afterwards invited Khrushchev to the United States . |
| 8 | Manicuring is boring actually , but it was meeting all those people , there was always something interesting to talk about because the people were so knowledgeable and travelled … you get all the kings and dukes and lords . |
| 9 | While society may have been identifying ‘ old age ’ as a distinct phase of life , it was providing little practical support for individuals experiencing it . |
| 10 | The benefits will be very substantial and I believe this initiative could be as significant to us in the future as was SRS when it was introduced all those years ago . |
| 11 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 12 | no , but it was upsetting all these journey |
| 13 | It was losing that young lass of his that made him sign on , William knew full well . |
| 14 | ‘ Primarily , it was attacking that extraordinary wave of nostalgia that seemed to occur in the early and mid-Sixties for how great it was in the war . |
| 15 | It was stressed that full time staff were needed for old people , especially in terms of building up a relationship with the old people which would mean that the help would be more efficient and effective . |
| 16 | The scat-singing was loud , but it was fighting several other pieces of music in an arrangement that was less contrapuntal than cacophonous . |
| 17 | How terrible it was to have those easy phrases , trotted out so often in the course of gossip , or heart-to-hearts , or in magazine articles , or even court cases , become so real . |
| 18 | It was to avoid this last couple that Hugh unexpectedly asked her to dance , which they did unsuccessfully , their bodies unused to performing together , and Molly keeping to the shadows in case the children should spot them and never be able to forgive the embarrassment they had been caused . |
| 19 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 20 | Yes , where , sorry , Ian Smith , Ryedale District , yes , er where it was considered those allocated sites could be developed without extending development into the greenbelt . |