Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have known that it was bound to come out , and when it did his case would appear that much blacker . |
| 2 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 3 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 4 | Nothing eventful occurred that night , and as Hugh had not returned , and as a careful search discovered no trace of Marian and Allen , it was decided to move on with every precaution into territory which with every yard became potentially more hostile . |
| 5 | A unanimous March 1990 decision to return the headquarters of the League from Tunis to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] led , however , to a serious dispute in September when it was decided to speed up the transfer , which was largely completed by the end of October [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 6 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 7 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 8 | At the meeting it was decided to carry out a detailed analysis of the needs of each church 128 in all , of which fifty or so are of prime artistic interest and to calculate precisely the costs involved . |
| 9 | As no suitable package could be purchased at an acceptable cost , it was decided to carry out all systems analysis and programming work in-house . |
| 10 | Two other modifications to the description resulted which were entered into LIFESPAN , and it was decided to carry out the quality approval . |
| 11 | To minimise any impact on the hotel operation during the modernisation of the lifts , it was decided to carry out the work on a lift by lift basis , with each lift being modernised within a 16 week period . |
| 12 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 13 | In January it was decided to go on talking but let a ’ monitoring group ’ suggest what should be done with the results . |
| 14 | During the 1930s and throughout the Second World War the site had been an isolated airfield and it was here , immediately following the end of the war and a clamp-down on the interchange of information with the USA , that it was decided to set up Britain 's civil atomic energy programme . |
| 15 | It was decided to set up the PMIS as part of an " on-line " system ( directly connected to the computer ) using a computer terminal for input and output . |
| 16 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 17 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 18 | It was decided to bring about the dissolution of the greater part of this library , and the library was offered for sale by Messrs Sotheby at one of the provincial salerooms they then owned , Sotheby 's Taunton . |
| 19 | It was decided to bring in Leeds-based Moss International to promote and find sponsors for the 1988 pie , ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ as it came to be known . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees . |
| 21 | However , because some aspects of United Kingdom law were somewhat vague and ill-defined ( for example , the meaning of fair-dealing ) it was decided to tighten up some of the exceptions to copyright infringement , the necessary changes to the 1988 Act being made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 . |
| 22 | It was decided to throw out a friendly challenge to other parish councils . |
| 23 | For this reason , it was planned to carry out evaluation of this type of material by comparing the performance of an experimental group using a Swedish audio commentary with that of a control group using an English commentary . |
| 24 | It was beginning to go out again , calmly withdrawing , as though trained . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd begun to wonder if anything would work — it was beginning to take over my life . |
| 26 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 27 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
| 28 | It was beginning to add up . |
| 29 | Angie Bowie : ‘ Mary an I got on really well — we had a hoot and always enjoyed each other 's company , and although the Arts Lab was still running , it was beginning to get out of hand . |
| 30 | The hand was not quite flat : it looked as if it was trying to get up . |