Example sentences of "it was [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 2 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Whether it was pointing the right way to capture who planted the bomb , we are still checking . ’ |
| 12 | It was nearing the ninth hour , and Jesus , who had resisted sin throughout his life , now , because of his obedience , became sin itself — not by wilful act but by being made the crucible of the whole sum of human evil . |
| 13 | Now it was accepting the democratic method to the extent of reaching agreement with the Liberals or even Conservatives . |
| 14 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
| 15 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 16 | In 1945 it was given the royal accolade and since 1954 it has had its headquarters in Croydon , although the College of St. Nicolas ( latterly at Addington Palace ) closed in 1974 . |
| 17 | In 1965 it was designated the Socialist Republic of Romania , which title was changed to the Republic of Romania on Dec. 29 , 1989 . |
| 18 | And guess who it was made the original identification and said , ‘ Yes , that 's Uncle Mosse ’ and was his sole heir ? ’ |
| 19 | But later it was revealed the real reason for Benn 's no-show was that he was too frightened to catch a cold . |
| 20 | It was called the Advanced Passenger Train . |
| 21 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 22 | Oh it was just er just I suppose luck , just an idea to have the last sheaf it was called the maiden sheaf . |
| 23 | Indeed the best selling book of the nineteen seventies in American politics by a famous historian Arthur Schlesinger Junior called , it was called The Imperial Presidency . |
| 24 | It was called the Joint Framework for Social Policy ( CPRS , 1975 ; Klein , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | For this reason , it was called the Golden Bough and was believed to cure diseases in humans and cattle . |
| 26 | It was called the Psychological Club , but basically it was all centred around this one very strange guy who had interpreted Jung 's teachings in a very strange way . |
| 27 | That 's why it was called The Mad House . |
| 28 | How it was called The Mad House . ’ |
| 29 | It was called the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive , or NIREX for short . |
| 30 | Why it was called the holy alliance was because erm er the signatories agreed that they would er , that they would rule their states and treat er er policy erm er according to christian principles . |