Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors were known to have had reservations about an earlier plan which included a staff flat on a second storey because , although it was felt this was desirable from a security point of view , it contravened various planning guidelines . |
| 2 | It was matched , operationally , by General Erskine 's conviction that the Chinese border could be made impregnable and the coastline sealed off to prevent external aid reaching the Vietminh ; although it was admitted this could not be done with existing forces on the border . |
| 3 | Er , in his er , comment just now he er , referred to the enor , the enormous er , amount that it was costing this council to er , fund the special protection service . |
| 4 | As part of the fund-raising effort , the Scottish Bridge Union ran a National Spring Swiss Teams and this was such a success that it was repeated this year . |
| 5 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 6 | The first was that the informal wages policy arranged by Bevin had been successful in stemming wartime inflation , and it was assumed this could be continued in peacetime . |
| 7 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 8 | But I mean , if it was costing this sort of money to clear the pipes and so forth out , what I fail to understand is if we 're having a full overhaul of the machine , why this was n't incorporated within it . |
| 9 | And they were er and the gunpowder when , when it was ignited this |