Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expressed the opinion that the first defendant would be in breach of its duty to the plaintiffs ‘ if it were to agree to pay remuneration to the receiver which was plainly excessive . ’ |
| 2 | On it were placed chafing dishes full of glowing charcoal , spices and herbs . |
| 3 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 4 | Also , it was bound to implicate Government deeply . |
| 5 | The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures it was taking to enforce order . |
| 6 | It was to serve housing estates and an airfield . |
| 7 | Religion lost its hold on the social imagination when it was seen to embody qualities opposed to science : irrationality and superstition . |
| 8 | He reminded me of a barrister I had once watched interrogating a hostile witness and I was sure his switch to English was not for my benefit , it was done to put Rodriguez at a disadvantage . |
| 9 | The question and tone with which it was uttered took Lucy by surprise . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough council yesterday announced it was hoping to donate £3,000 towards the purchase of computer equipment for the project . |
| 11 | Langbaurgh Council showed it was determined to win cash for the Redcar bid with a spectacular document delivery . |
| 12 | It was ringing to tell Haworth and all the world that Charlotte Brontë was dead . |
| 13 | ‘ But I believe it was sent to teach people how to love each other . |
| 14 | Lothian Regional Council saved the bridge from demolition in 1982 when it was adopted to form part of the Granton to Slateford , Caledonian Cycletrack . |
| 15 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 16 | The pro-government Republican Party , until June a member of the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms , also announced that it was intending to put pressure on the government and President in support of reforms . |
| 17 | It was instructed to recommend improvements in procedures used by the police when holding suspects in custody in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Instead it was developed to promote value systems in the spheres of religion and politics.4 The early smiths were primarily concerned with the colours and surface appearance of gold and silver . |
| 19 | It was destined to influence Ramsey 's later career . |
| 20 | When it was decided to classify computer programs as literary works for copyright purposes , the usual exceptions to copyright infringement applied . |
| 21 | Belgium did not fit the bill so it was decided to move Brazil ( who were to have played in Milan ) to Turin , bring West Germany to the rebuilt San Siro Stadium and send the Belgians to Verona . |
| 22 | Belgium did not fit the bill so it was decided to move Brazil ( who were to have played in Milan ) to Turin , bring West Germany to the rebuilt San Siro Stadium and send the Belgians to Verona . |
| 23 | Venables , though , maintains that Spurs were about to sign Paul Gascoigne , and it was decided to allow Manchester United to sign Hughes , thus weakening their financial clout to make a counter-bid for Gascoigne . |
| 24 | ‘ Eventually , ’ observes Brett , ‘ it was decided to allow Sunderland to play Davenport . |
| 25 | Since a large number of locations were needed for this study it was decided to use locations which none of the subjects were likely to know rather than stimuli filmed in the Cambridge area which would differ in the degree of previous familiarity subjects had with them . |
| 26 | The wound had to be desloughed before granulation and healing could begin and it was decided to use Hioxyl cream ( 1.5% hydrogen peroxide ) . |
| 27 | It was decided to include management information requirements as well as financial recording . |
| 28 | Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process . |
| 29 | To be able to compare results from the simulator with those previously obtained on the road it was decided to have subjects perform precisely the same judgment tasks that had been used in Study 1 , giving ratings of subjective risk and estimates of accident statistics . |
| 30 | On 1 November it was decided to hand copies of the proposed College regulations to stagecoach proprietors for distribution . |