Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] [vb pp] the " in BNC.

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1 A Grand Jury in California handed up indictments against two officers of Symantec Corp alleging that they stole trade secrets from Borland International Inc after a six-month investigation by the district attorney 's office of Santa Cruz County , California into the allegations that a Borland officer brought confidential company material with him when he left Borland to join Symantec ; Symantec says that last it hired an independent law firm to look into the charges , and it was given the opinion that there was no crime committed and that none of the items constitute trade secrets .
2 By 1977 the SCONUL Tape-Slide Group barely functioned as a producing agency , and it was renamed the SCONUL Section on Cooperative Production of Packages for User Education .
3 They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’
4 And it was called the Daisy Field .
5 The only thing is another old place that in was Auchentipple There used to be a chapel there and it was called the Hunt Chapel , but it 's just a hunt now .
6 And it was called the
7 The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars .
8 And it was feared the Government might change the rules for claiming dole , to reduce a vast social security budget swollen by recession .
9 Well I was sent to the erm United , well it was n't a United Reform Church then but it was called the Chapel and I was sent to there , to Sunday School there , mornings and afternoon and we went two by two across to the Chapel , you see , so while my father , we used to walk down the street together .
10 A mobile coastguard and the Cullercoats inshore lifeboat were called out but it was found the flare had been fired from the shore before youths were seen fleeing .
11 The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed .
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