Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tom Watson believes that if it were located in the middle of the course , it would not be as difficult . |
| 6 | Seemed that malais had a sixth sense , a special antenna for propositions of this kind ; it was absorbed in the mother 's milk . |
| 7 | The area round it was hidden in the penumbra . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And you said it was done in the forest . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most of it was done in the seventies , some was done in the sixties . |
| 14 | It was completed in the 1980s and I was already daring to suggest that Fascism could return . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 17 | It also gives some indication of the pattern of the sexual division of labour as it was developing in the late 1960s . |
| 18 | There was growing dissatisfaction with the Church and in particular with the way it was developing in the late twelfth century . |
| 19 | More broadly , it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence . |
| 20 | However , in August 1815 Van Butchell 's son presented the embalmed body of his mother to the Royal College of Surgeons where it was placed in the Curio Room . |
| 21 | It was placed in the church in 1911 by the Tennyson Centenary Committee and was dedicated by the Bishop of Lincoln . |
| 22 | It was placed in the compost heap of the Dean 's house , when ? ’ |
| 23 | It was a fine effort , particularly as it was achieved in the company of Arnold Palmer , still a great favourite here , whom Wolstenholme outscored by three strokes . |
| 24 | It was matched in the East by Sir Edward Dalyngrydge 's creation at Bodiam , ‘ crenellated ’ in 1385 , a great square surrounded by a wide moat on the upper reaches of the Rother . |
| 25 | Morphology was a descriptive rather than an experimental science , but it was conducted in the laboratory rather than the field and could thus be presented as a symbol of modernization . |
| 26 | It was argued in the Senate that presidents were using executive agreements not for minor matters , as originally intended , but as vehicles for entering into major foreign and defence policy commitments without reference to congress . |
| 27 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 28 | It was erected in the entrance tower of the Carrara Palace at Padua in 1344 , but was destroyed in the assault on that town by the Milanese in 1390 . |
| 29 | In one instance , it was believed in the family that one sister had visited their father during his final illness and had persuaded him to make a new will in her favour , directing his hand as he signed it . |
| 30 | As we saw in Chapter 1 , it was believed in the early 1980s that much primary classroom practice in Leeds was outdated , uninspiring or downright bad ; that heads bore much of the responsibility for this state of affairs ; and , therefore , that the same heads could not be expected to put matters right . |