Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |
| 2 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 3 | When the Exhibitors Herald described The Song of Life ( 1922 ) as being ‘ an appealing and forceful story of life 's drab realities ’ and in particular of ‘ the dull existence of a track laborer 's wife ’ it was complimenting worthy endeavour rather than laying the foundation for a blockbuster . |
| 4 | By late 1874 it was producing various types of coloured printing papers , as well as newsprint , on a 54-inch machine . |
| 5 | He also suspected it was taking poor Sombro even longer to get home after a heavy session ! |
| 6 | It was getting early evening now , it was getting time to eat . |
| 7 | No-one had ever done anything like it in rock and roll and it was getting incredible press . |
| 8 | For its part the UN Security Council agreed to send a high-level mission to Baghdad to demand immediate , total access to facilities , and stated that it was considering issuing Iraq with an ultimatum to produce objects spirited out of the military base where the shots were fired , east of Al Falluja . |
| 9 | There was a tiny hole in it and it was spilling white blobs of polystyrene like grain . |
| 10 | The European Commission announced on July 31 that it was dropping legal action against the United Kingdom in five out of seven cases where UK plans had been deemed to infringe EC environmental assessment directives . |
| 11 | Disunity in Congress also compelled the administration to look for allies if it was to risk military involvement . |
| 12 | And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression . |
| 13 | In the 1970s high domestic inflation rates encouraged governments to change the emphasis of economic policies towards money supply control , as it was believed excessive money creation had caused inflation . |
| 14 | On Sept. 12 the Revolutionary Justice Organization ( RJO ) in Beirut made its first formal announcement that it was holding British hostage Jackie Mann , kidnapped in Beirut in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , while Islamic Jihad issued a statement welcoming the releases and accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage , Terry Anderson . |
| 15 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 16 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 17 | The Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 18 that it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel , which was refusing to appoint an ambassador while Waldheim remained President . |
| 18 | The city 's Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität was founded only after Baron von Stein 's reforms in 1810 , yet by 1870 it was setting international standards in history , classics , physics , chemistry , and medicine . |
| 19 | ‘ On the one hand , it was supposed to be BCCI 's auditor , while on the other hand , it was earning huge fees from other parts of BCCI as management consultants . ’ |
| 20 | A year later , the Government restored the 5 per cent abatement in that year 's uprating of benefits , conceding that it was experiencing considerable difficulties in making invalidity benefit liable to taxation by the following year . |
| 21 | It is regrettable that the friend will be hurt if his advice is not followed after it was given due consideration , or at least it is regrettable that he will be hurt to a degree which justifies this reaction . |
| 22 | And it was given new nourishment by a series of Hitler speeches in late 1940 and early 1941 which aimed to strengthen confidence in final victory and create the impression that the decisive strike to end the war — people still presumed that it would be against Britain — would take place in the course of the next twelve months . |
| 23 | The concept of the church as heaven on earth was as old as Byzantium , but it was given new impetus in these confections of the Holy Roman Empire 's last century . |
| 24 | Poland had threatened on Sept. 9 to abandon its negotiations with the EC unless it was given extra access for food products . |
| 25 | Apart from the area around Manchester , ill other regions were experiencing a steep decline in membership by 1935 , and anti-semitism now showed itself to be a viable propaganda vehicle in a particular locality ; from then on it was given special prominence . |
| 26 | I have remarked on its dominance in Oxford English , and a generation ago it was given magisterial expression in Northrop Frye 's Anatomy of Criticism , which aspired to a ‘ scientific ’ criticism where there would be no place for evaluation , since it is not nobler to study stars than earthworms . |
| 27 | Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention . |
| 28 | It was made clear thoughout that Women for Socialism are not attempting to set the agenda for other women 's groups . |
| 29 | And erm in between the wars , erm it was made double track , er up towards over there . |
| 30 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |