Example sentences of "it was [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 2 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 3 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 5 | Look at the way Waldegrave 's initiative for openness collapsed as soon as people saw it was going to land them in it , ’ said Jim . |
| 6 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 7 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |