Example sentences of "it was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 2 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 3 | and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again . |
| 4 | It was done on the receivers orders to stop disgruntled workers taking demonstration vehicles from the site . |
| 5 | It was drifting through the suburbs of outer Manchester . |
| 6 | It was dismissed by the critics until McCarthy and the Terror were safely passed . |
| 7 | It was attended by the Presidents of Kenya and Uganda and representatives of the Governments of Germany , the United States of America , France , Italy , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Libya , Yemen , Nigeria , Ethiopia , Sudan , Oman , the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , and China and of the Arab League , the Organisation of African Unity and the European Economic Community . |
| 8 | It was attended by the Presidents of Botswana , Mozambique , Namibia , Tanzania , Zambia and Zimbabwe , and senior representatives from Angola , Lesotho , Malawi , Namibia and Swaziland . |
| 9 | It was concluded from the responses that the majority ‘ considered that the benefits which the present system had provided should not be discarded in favour of a far less obviously secure form of validation ’ . |
| 10 | The village of Mojacar is enchanting and provokes a desire to discover more about its fascinating history — how it was conquered by the Moors and recaptured centuries later by the Catholic Kings . |
| 11 | It was heard by the men in the inn , and in a second they were out in the road , running into the darkness of the fields . |
| 12 | It was argued for the defendants that the wife would not be liable to tax on the damages she received , while her lost income would have been taxable in her hands , and that therefore she should be awarded damages in respect of her net loss after deducting tax . |
| 13 | On appeal , it was argued for the miners that the instructions to turn back were unlawful , and the police had no power to require them to turn back . |
| 14 | It was checked against the prints of George Taylor , who had been early on the scene , but they did not match . |
| 15 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 16 | It was applied to the birds by the ornithologist William Swainson ( 1789–1855 ) , who wrote extensively and produced a number of well illustrated works . |
| 17 | Then he lifted the body so that the blood dribbled over the stones and spilt on to the ground in front of him , where it was littered with the remains of other , older offerings — dead flowers , grains of rice and barley , a few coins . |
| 18 | For example it was packed into the holds of ships sailing to the New World , to satisfy the expatriates ' desire for Spanish tableware in their overseas posting . |
| 19 | Both BBC viewers and those who did not watch the BBC were agreed on balance that it was biased towards the Conservatives though those who actually watched it were more evenly divided on the direction of BBC bias than those who did not ( Table 6.1 again ) . |
| 20 | Our opinion survey in Chapter 6 showed that most voters felt television news on both networks was unbiased ; but amongst the minority who felt it was biased a majority thought it was biased towards the Conservatives and against both Labour and the Alliance . |
| 21 | At the same time a large majority of voters thought that the press was biased , and that it was biased towards the Conservatives , against Labour , and against the Alliance . |
| 22 | Settlement of the issues of border troops and conventional forces would take place following discussions over the subsequent two months , although it was recognized in the protocols that Ukraine was creating its own armed forces as of Jan. 3 , 1992 . |
| 23 | This is not to say that all care orders were welcomed by the families ; and there is clearly the possibility that , while this intervention was favoured by the parents , it was resented by the children . |
| 24 | It was framed on the principles of modern political economy . |
| 25 | Groups on the left opposed it on the grounds that IMF policies had damaged developing countries , and on the right it was opposed on the grounds of cost . |
| 26 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
| 27 | It was recognised by the defendants that when the employment of an agent came to an end it was likely that there would be in existence a number of policies which would have been effected during the period of the plaintiff 's employment in respect of which commission would normally be paid in future years if the employment had continued . |
| 28 | It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission . |
| 29 | All the houses looked like Gloucester in the olden days andf it was snowing in the streets . |
| 30 | A gateway designed by Inigo Jones in 1621 , was given by Sir Hans Sloane of Chelsea , to Lord Burlington , in 1738 , and it was incorporated into the gardens of his Chiswick House . |