Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | This first Report was read by Professor Brian Griffiths , whose duty as Prime Minister 's adviser was to present it to Mrs Thatcher with his comments . |
| 3 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 4 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 5 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 6 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 7 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 8 | He says the origninal plan was to raise it to 12p . |
| 9 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 10 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 11 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 12 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 13 | For Germany now had the chance to bring her new strength of purpose to bear against her real enemy — at which point Nietzsche introduced a reinterpretation of politics in cultural and philosophical terms which was to become characteristic of his mature thinking : the " real enemy " was modern superficiality , and Germany 's chance was to destroy it by relearning " tragic cognition " from the Greeks . |
| 14 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 15 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 16 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 17 | A shower unit caught fire while a woman was using it at her home in Weston Crescent , Norton . |
| 18 | The grey-brown circle suddenly became the face of a planet , and Ace was approaching it from space . |
| 19 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 20 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |
| 21 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
| 22 | One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church . |
| 23 | Chateaubriand , who happened to be visiting Arenenberg was asked by the young author for his opinion of the work , and the great writer graciously suggested that it would be improved if , where the word ‘ people ’ occurred , the Prince were to replace it with ‘ nation ’ . |
| 24 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 25 | The shameful thing was doing it in front of strangers , and being seen by your friends in the process . |
| 26 | The chief executive of Merseytravel , which operates the service , emerged from a crisis meeting and conceded a crippling financial burden was forcing it to back closure plans . |
| 27 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 28 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 29 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 30 | Well I thought the idea was to put it on one of the original walls though . |