Example sentences of "it was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states .
2 The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 .
3 It was eventually taken into state care in 1912 , and has been open to the public ever since .
4 The ability of the electoral system to produce a government in the way previously expected of it was thus called into question .
5 The limpness of the body as it was thus laid in place was pitiful .
6 When Henry V landed for the first time on French soil nearly forty years later , it was soon put beyond doubt that in his artillery he possessed a potential match-winner .
7 It was soon discontinued for lack of patronage !
8 It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while .
9 This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 .
10 It was only during the 1980s that it was finally laid to rest , enabling BR to run a fully modernised and streamlined freight system .
11 However , the ball struck Ranson on the hand and though referee Alf Buksh was unsighted it was clearly seen by linesman Madgwick .
12 It was plainly furnished with wood-panelling .
13 This was specific because it was competitively inhibited by peptide 15 but not by an unrelated peptide , peptide 1 ( compare tracks 6 and 5 ) .
14 How much of it was fundamentally affected by editing and/or translation ?
15 He squinted to make out the figure above the nearest open door , but it was completely encrusted with grime ; the name and number above the next building however , was Number Two .
16 Though it was completely lacking in originality its publication in Western Europe drew the admiration of many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment .
17 It was completely blocked off coach could n't go backwards because there was cars behind it .
18 When it returned it was completely transformed in appearance .
19 To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in .
20 It had been redecorated in Baroque style in the eighteenth century , but its Medieval character had been retained until it was wantonly destroyed by order of the Germans in the Second World War .
21 I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place .
22 Although it was generally believed in Thrush Green that ‘ poor Dimity was put upon by Ella ’ , it was not the case .
23 It was generally built on land assembled by the local authority .
24 The Roman theatre , when built on a new site , differed from the Greek pattern in that it was generally constructed above ground and not hollowed out from the hillside .
25 By the time Coleman picked up the threads of the plot in February 1987 , there was still no clear plan of attack , although it was generally agreed among Hurley and his colleagues that luring Younis into a drug deal was probably the key , and that a lot of political hassle would be avoided if he could be taken , say , in international waters .
26 Charles perhaps still more than his father regarded St Denis as both personal and dynastic patron ; and though the earliest evidence of this comes from the early years of his own reign , it was surely rooted in childhood habits .
27 It was well received in hardback .
28 The actual founding of the town is obscure , but it was well established as part of the Royal hunting lodge before 1066 and so has no separate entry in the Domesday Book , since Snaith was a royal manor held by the King ‘ for the support of his table ’ , and therefore already documented .
29 It was well known in college that , barring some accident , Mr de Chavigny would take a First in his PPE Finals .
30 It was also noted with regret that the same Legal Adviser had drafted a glowing testimonial of Barley for Clive 's signature not forty-eight hours before Barley 's disappearance , thus enabling Barley to take possession of the shopping list ** , though presumably not for long .
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