Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided to first try out the simplest possible computational technique . |
| 2 | Amery was convinced of the need to introduce a scheme of family allowance even if , in the interest of economy , it was limited to third and subsequent children ; and now he was finding more support for that view from the Conservative benches as well as from other parties . |
| 3 | It was upheld at last year 's meeting in Noordwijk [ see ED no. 37/38 ] . |
| 4 | it was taken about last July |
| 5 | In its present form it was rebuilt in mid-eighteenth century and is one of Europe 's greatest baroque buildings , with the monastery church embodied as centrepiece of the great facade . |
| 6 | Known as the " open skies " treaty , it was heralded as first arms control agreement of the post-Cold-War . |
| 7 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |