Example sentences of "[noun] it [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant . |
| 2 | After a few sessions it was becoming clear that Henry 's impact on the scheme was reciprocal . |
| 3 | The other one , vaguely at the back of my mind it was raised this morning cos I recall Mr made a comment on it , and that is erm looking at the growth implications beyond two thousand and six . |
| 4 | They walked the rest of the distance in silence , and by the time they got back to the car it was baking hot . |
| 5 | In considering the requirements of local industry it was found necessary to place emphasis on the students elective programme ie he/she would be able to design his/her own programme to satisfy his/her own needs . |
| 6 | Although they differed markedly in the kinds of data it was thought necessary to collect , they held to a similar conception of the relationship between theory and data . |
| 7 | In registering those concerns it was paying some of the penalties of the pioneer , anxious to ensure adequate monitoring of both traditional and novel courses — single subject and multidisciplinary , full-time , part-time and mixed mode , organized by year or in modules . |
| 8 | Every second it was growing louder , and suddenly it was no longer a small wind , it was a fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise that sounded as though some gigantic creature was breathing heavily through its nose as it galloped towards him . |
| 9 | Probably due to the newness of our sample , this proved quite difficult to do , but by the end of the test it was getting easier , either because the sleeve was wearing in , or because we were developing the knack — you must push the sleeve right back . |
| 10 | The team began experimenting there in December ‘ 88 and by the end of January it was felt right to go for a public launch on Palm Sunday ‘ 89 with attendant door to door visiting with invitations , and publicity to the press and media . |
| 11 | In the early days the Manning conference was quite an informal one day session , but as the service grew and the numbers of boats and crew members complicated the issue it was found necessary to extend to two days . |
| 12 | Remembering , perhaps , clashes that had taken place in the past between the travellers and the locals , at the next meeting of the parish council it was suggested that advice be taken regarding the legal value of the charter and the legal position concerning trespass on council land . |
| 13 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 14 | During the final months of the peace Ballot campaign it was becoming clear that Mussolini was preparing to invade Abyssinia , and it was in relation to this danger that the issue of sanctions was generally debated . |
| 15 | When she was a child it was left uncut and grew down well below her waist . |
| 16 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 17 | I did have a gaoler , though — a horrible valet called Hicks , whose job it was to make sure I did n't mix with anyone outside the family . |
| 18 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 19 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |
| 20 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 21 | The idea was not new ; it had been first put into operation in the preceding reign of Louis-Philippe , but during that period it was made clear to France that she must play second fiddle in the European concert otherwise Britain would turn her out of the orchestra . |
| 22 | In relation to recording on the file it was held that time spent in preparing typed file and attendance notes should be recorded , and will be recovered , provided that the time spent is not excessive . |
| 23 | At a preview it was introduced live by John Butcher MP , Under-secretary of state for Industry , asserting that futurologists who write off Britain as an industrial nation are ‘ talking a load of hooey ’ . |
| 24 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 25 | The worst result discounting his vote , would be 6:5 in favour , in the event it was carried 9:2 ! |
| 26 | On more than one occasion it was remarked that ship designers tested their designs on duckponds . |
| 27 | By the end of the decade it was importing 8–9 million barrels per day , or about 30 per cent of OPEC output . |
| 28 | And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression . |
| 29 | At the beginning of the month it was announced that of 1,760 extremist attacks in the period from the beginning of January to Nov. 8 , 1992 , 1,000 had been carried out over the previous two months . |
| 30 | The road was unmade , but because it was the only route to the peat bog it was worn smooth by peasants , bicycle tyres and barrow wheels . |