Example sentences of "it [vb past] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the new session of the Stormont parliament , it criticised the failure of the Government to give any commitment on a universal franchise and the Special Powers Act , but the only action it proposed was a low-key educational programme . |
| 2 | But the tone and guest list at this party was very different ; here it seemed were the elusive Delhi jeunesse dorée . |
| 3 | But the locals did not always tolerate government by monks — perhaps suspecting what in this century has been established as a fact , that the abbey 's legal title to the authority it claimed was a tenth-century forgery . |
| 4 | The newspaper Noticias-El Diario printed photocopies of what it claimed was a 1961 report by Paraguayan police agent Pedro Prokopchuk to Antonio Campos Alum , the chief of political police . |
| 5 | On Oct. 20 Japan expressed regret over what it claimed was an alleged breach by France of an agreement not to disclose preparations for the shipment . |
| 6 | On Aug. 24 the 13 parties of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Democratic Opposition condemned what it alleged was a recent army massacre of civilians , including some 12 schoolchildren , in Doba , in the south . |
| 7 | All it needed was a good tug . |
| 8 | The women were told it would soon be mended , but by the time it came for bed it still was n't repaired , although probably all it needed was a new fuse . |
| 9 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 10 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 11 | All it needed was a little glue . |
| 12 | Insisting that all it needed was a little Lux , he put the painting on the floor and began scrubbing . |
| 13 | All it required was the moral and political will , and control of the physical means . |
| 14 | All it contained was a small jar of capers . |
| 15 | In the context of German Hellenism as a whole , what it meant was an ever-widening gulf between classics as a study and the creative art and life of the time . |
| 16 | ‘ The snow 's very loose on the Wildhorn at this time of year and all it took was a small charge to start the ball rolling , if you 'll excuse the pun . |
| 17 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 18 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 19 | A Sudanese army spokesman on Dec. 20 criticized what it said was the Kenyan government 's support for " certain foreign circles and the colonialist churches " which he said were trying to bring together the divided rebel groups in the south and to persuade them to secede . |
| 20 | Amnesty denounced what it said was the general failure by the Brazilian authorities to take action . |
| 21 | A thin dog sidled up to them , stopping just out of range of a kick , and looked at them with what it hoped was an appealing expression . |
| 22 | All it wanted was a new cover , I said , and she almost looked convinced when I said I was sure we could reach a price that suited us both . |
| 23 | But Greenpeace noted that the British government 's willingness to sign the convention as it stood was a fundamental shift in policy in that it had agreed for the first time to the elimination in principle of dangerous chemicals . |