Example sentences of "it was [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 2 | Despite its claim to be an educational body , the Club could not escape the charge that it was taking an organized part in politics . |
| 3 | But there 's been a few hairy things , stabbings and it was getting a wee bit dodgy so she 's given that up . |
| 4 | And the the firm was very annoyed at hearing this name getting banded about because it was getting a bad name . |
| 5 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 6 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 7 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 8 | When it was done the reddish gold hair licked round the edge of her mob cap like a straight silken fringe , and there was no consoling her . |
| 9 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 10 | It was leaving an impressive vapour trail . |
| 11 | The National Liberal Party ( NLP ) announced on April 11 that it was leaving the Democratic Convention ( DC ) , the election alliance of 14 opposition parties formed for the February 1992 local elections . |
| 12 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 13 | A controversial memo to hospital consultants has been withdrawn after claims it was creating a two-tier health system . |
| 14 | Dorries said two other companies had established Glaxo-style schemes , and BP Exploration recently announced that it was creating an in-house childcare information service on nursery places and childminders . |
| 15 | It was issuing the final invitation to apply for Channel 5 — the last national terrestrial television station likely to be set up in Britain — after a three-month delay caused by technical problems . |
| 16 | Even though by 1873 it was proclaimed the biggest brewing company in the world , Truman 's too found itself under pressure from the growing popularity of Burton ales . |
| 17 | He added that it was believed an anti-aircraft gun was in the locality and that it was fired recently . |
| 18 | Cleveland police said it was believed an electrical fault started the fire in a ground-floor flat . |
| 19 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 20 | By the 1920s it was enjoying a wide circulation . |
| 21 | A clash with Saudi border guards at al-Khofous 130 km south-east of Doha on Sept. 30 left one Qatari warrant officer and an Egyptian national serving in the Emirate 's armed forces dead , and caused the government to announce on Oct. 1 that it was revoking a 1965 defence agreement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 22 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |
| 23 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 24 | The United States government stated on Oct. 5 that it was halting a commercial wheat shipment to Sudan until the distribution system was improved . |
| 25 | Douglas B-23 Dragon N4000B was stored outside the Museum building ( inset 1990 ) , it was blown a considerable distance . |
| 26 | It seemed to Joan that the wedding-ring was burning her finger ; it caught the light , glistering brightly as if wishing to draw attention to the fact that it was embellishing an alien hand . |
| 27 | And in fact that showed no relief to the A sixty one at all in that it was quicker for traffic to actually pass er through on the A sixty one going to the to the traffic model and the all the assumptions built into it , er than it was to use a southern bypass er out to the inner northern route and then back to the A sixty one south of Killinghall . |
| 28 | It was reaching a murderous conclusion . |
| 29 | Whether it was pointing the right way to capture who planted the bomb , we are still checking . ’ |
| 30 | The first of these was the landowning class , the nobility and gentry ; the leaders of the community , whose duty it was to set a good example to the rest , to be ‘ the helpers and releuers of poore tenantes , and also be the maynteynors and supporters of all poore folkes ’ . |