Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid-1970s local government spending was under severe pressure from the centre as more and more complex rules were developed to keep it under control . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ People were queueing to sign it . |
| 3 | They were to continue to dominate it until the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The following conferences did place racism on the agenda , and all white participants were expected to take it seriously . |
| 5 | Mr Sloan took the Social Work Department 's line , and the Panel were expected to follow it too . |
| 6 | You could n't be alone with your tragedy , you were expected to bring it into the living-room with you , as the others brought their newspapers , knitting , homework . |
| 7 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 8 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 9 | If you are the nominated approver , you should approve this subpackage first ( if you were nominated to approve it ) . |
| 10 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 11 | One by one , the arguments that were said to justify it are being abandoned . |
| 12 | So striking was the experience that many were said to believe it was preparatory to the end of the world . |
| 13 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 14 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 15 | When bad news was finally announced , dealers were instructed to conceal it from their clients for as long as possible . |
| 16 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 17 | Centres approved to offer the unit were asked to tender for the pilot and Stevenson College , Anniesland College and QTAC , the business arm of Fife College , were selected to run it . |
| 18 | Priene was rebuilt near the mouth of the River Meander about 334 B.C. Because the town was not of great importance under the late Roman rule , few alterations were made to adapt it to Roman needs , so much of the Hellenistic building has survived . |
| 19 | The aircraft sank when efforts were made to tow it ashore . |
| 20 | Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just . |
| 21 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
| 22 | Many of them were made to feel it was wrong to show their feelings , so they use something else to attract your attention . |
| 23 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 24 | On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft . |
| 25 | They were made to make it look like a robbery . |
| 26 | It is understood the moves were made to make it easier to count the votes and complete the procedure by the weekend . |
| 27 | When he wanted to get rid of the consequence of the murder , women were made to share it with two other victims . |
| 28 | Contemporaries did note approvingly that attempts were made to keep it clean and well aired , which , it seems , had not always been the case in the days of Louis-Philippe . |
| 29 | Variant weapons included the guisarme or fauchard , which persisted in many forms as late as the seventeenth century , and inflicted such horrible wounds that attempts were made to have it banned during the medieval period . |
| 30 | Isaacs named the substance interferon , and for some years vigorous efforts were made to develop it into a practical therapeutic agent . |