Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church . |
| 2 | If it were to hold a known instrument off a bed casting then this would need to be declared ; ie " design of a bracket to support instrument off bed " . |
| 3 | OMG president , Chris Stone , said Software AG would certainly be able to bring a product to market much more quickly if it were to use the OMG-compliant HD-DOMS for the task . |
| 4 | The Government could play a part in advocating the recycling of plastics if it were to levy a small charge on each recyclable bottle . |
| 5 | And out of the disorder of the mangled metal work comes a process as flowing and systematic as if it were building a pristine model from scratch . |
| 6 | By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term . |
| 7 | Although it was clear that Poland would need massive industrialisation if it were to become a modern European nation , it was hampered in its efforts at every level by the legacy of partition . |
| 8 | If it were to become an actual consistent condition , the very purpose of life itself ( which is growth towards perfection through the struggle between opposites or growth towards total ‘ order ’ ) would be cancelled out and the evolutionary process would cease to be of significance . |
| 9 | The main forum was generally placed at the central cross-roads and round it were grouped the chief buildings of the town . |
| 10 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 11 | Now that Labour is going to choose between a Scotsman and a New Zealander for its new leader , it would be less offensive and more appropriate if it were to adopt an All Black thistle as its logo . |
| 12 | Yes , in that sense , in that sense , the unconscious thought was expressed but the , but the point was , i the anxiety as it were got the better of the dream , did n't it , if you woke up ? |
| 13 | Vanguard , hinting at possible pragmatic advantages to the pro-Libyan stance , declared it was taking a populist , anti-terrorist position : ‘ We must condemn all terrorism even if it means upsetting the Libyans and getting no money from their Embassy ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 15 | Despite its claim to be an educational body , the Club could not escape the charge that it was taking an organized part in politics . |
| 16 | But there 's been a few hairy things , stabbings and it was getting a wee bit dodgy so she 's given that up . |
| 17 | And the the firm was very annoyed at hearing this name getting banded about because it was getting a bad name . |
| 18 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 19 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 20 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 21 | When it was done the reddish gold hair licked round the edge of her mob cap like a straight silken fringe , and there was no consoling her . |
| 22 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 23 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 24 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 25 | While the world criticised Israel , America made only its usual token gestures of condemnation because it was supporting the CIA-backed Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel to the tune of more than $4 million . |
| 26 | It was leaving an impressive vapour trail . |
| 27 | The National Liberal Party ( NLP ) announced on April 11 that it was leaving the Democratic Convention ( DC ) , the election alliance of 14 opposition parties formed for the February 1992 local elections . |
| 28 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 29 | A controversial memo to hospital consultants has been withdrawn after claims it was creating a two-tier health system . |
| 30 | Dorries said two other companies had established Glaxo-style schemes , and BP Exploration recently announced that it was creating an in-house childcare information service on nursery places and childminders . |