Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were joined to the Executive Power , the Judge would have the strength of an oppressor . |
| 2 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 3 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 4 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 5 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 6 | If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class . |
| 7 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 8 | Delisting would do Jardine Matheson no good in Hong Kong ( though it would certainly do less harm if it were attributed to a row with the regulators than , say , to lack of faith in the future of the place ) . |
| 9 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 10 | This morning , having forced herself to her study , still wearing her dressing-gown and clutching a second cup of coffee as if it were attached to a lifeline , she began searching among her papers for the output of the previous day . |
| 11 | The ‘ bomb ’ was sent 700 miles south to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where it was exposed to a beam of muons produced in the laboratory 's particle accelerator . |
| 12 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 13 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 14 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 15 | Where this problem was found at high level on the aisle gable walls , it was owed to a poor constructional detail . |
| 16 | It was screwed to the jamb of a doorway that gave access to the premises of Henson & Burbidge , Fat and Bone Dealers . |
| 17 | It was getting to the point that whenever he saw a policeman sauntering along the crowded streets he chose for his phone calls his stomach turned over . |
| 18 | It was getting to the point where it was either me or the birds ! |
| 19 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 20 | Remember , when the sterling was redeposited with the UK bank only 90 per cent of it was credited to the NBPS ; 10 per cent was deposited in the name of the overseas bank and is not included in normal definitions of the money supply . |
| 21 | If the human mind had been created in such a way that it was matched to the intelligibility of nature , then the possibility of secure scientific knowledge could be affirmed . |
| 22 | Although VAT was levied at a lower rate than GST — 10 per cent compared with 13 per cent — it was applied to a wider range of goods . |
| 23 | It was applied to the birds by the ornithologist William Swainson ( 1789–1855 ) , who wrote extensively and produced a number of well illustrated works . |
| 24 | It was surrendered to the Crown in 1539 , and sold by Henry VIII to Lawrence Washington , who built the present house . |
| 25 | At high tide later the same day it was covered to a depth of three feet , and the following week , it was covered to a depth of 14 ‘ ft ‘ , so salvaging the Croydon was out of the question . |
| 26 | At high tide later the same day it was covered to a depth of three feet , and the following week , it was covered to a depth of 14 ‘ ft ‘ , so salvaging the Croydon was out of the question . |
| 27 | It was n't likely that it was connected to the local cop shop . |
| 28 | Leyland unveiled a prototype transmission on Tuesday ; it was fitted to a single-decker bus in place of the traditional gearbox . |
| 29 | It was fitted to a ring bolted through the headboard . |
| 30 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |