Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
| 2 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 3 | So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself . |
| 4 | ‘ The bastards who planted it were hiding in the trees , so Donald did n't see them and could n't have expected what was about to happen . |
| 5 | ‘ As though it were sworn in a court-room , ’ confirmed the detective . |
| 6 | I 'll get Annunziata to keep something hot in the kitchen and then if you 'd rather not be bothered with us tonight , you can have it there — or in bed , if that would be better , ’ said Julia , her heart feeling as though it were held in a tightening vice as she saw his misery . |
| 7 | There was an interesting sequel to this in 1967 when a book written by Len Deighton was published and sections of it were serialized in the Sunday Times . |
| 8 | Tom Watson believes that if it were located in the middle of the course , it would not be as difficult . |
| 9 | The idea that England was an ‘ Empire ’ was not new : it was asserted in a letter from Cuthbert Tunstall to Henry VIII in 1517 : ‘ But the Crown of England is an Empire of hitself … : for which cause your Grace werith a close crown . ’ |
| 10 | Seemed that malais had a sixth sense , a special antenna for propositions of this kind ; it was absorbed in the mother 's milk . |
| 11 | It was confirmed in a Commons written reply today that the Inland Revenue is investigating the claims . |
| 12 | Like many other gems in our ancient heritage , it was neglected in an age of supposed advances in our civilisation . |
| 13 | The area round it was hidden in the penumbra . |
| 14 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 15 | This happened in New England over religious issues ; it was to happen in a great many other places , usually for less solemn reasons , over the next three centuries . |
| 16 | ‘ I gather from Noakes that it was crouching in a gateway . ’ |
| 17 | It was illustrated in a 15th century manuscript , and Gerard referred to it as being useful for preserving the eyesight ; Culpeper advised its use for those " that are bit with serpents or have eat … mushrooms " . |
| 18 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 19 | It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime . |
| 20 | The possibility of ending of National Service was not mentioned in these guidelines , but it was the first item on the agenda of subjects to be discussed , and it was seen in the Whitehall market-place to be the political ‘ Blue Chip' stock of the year . |
| 21 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 22 | it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but |
| 23 | And as I say , if it was done in a very civilized way by people who 'd perhaps learnt to smile or somehow turn this , what must be a minor offence , into a minor occasion , erm I think it , it might actually ease relationships . |
| 24 | If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way . |
| 25 | It was done in an instant : the coal shovel , like a boomerang , sped at the young fellow 's head , but unlike a boomerang , it did not return . |
| 26 | And you said it was done in the forest . ’ |
| 27 | And er this of course er we th the office was being run I would think in the early twenties very much like it was done in the late nineties . |
| 28 | Most of it was done in the seventies , some was done in the sixties . |
| 29 | It was completed in the 1980s and I was already daring to suggest that Fascism could return . |
| 30 | But as this phase of radical Right optimism died away from 1953 , it was replaced in the hard-core by professed adherence to the Nazi past and outright glorification of Hitler . |