Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ If it were sold at the price it needs to be to make a profit it would be a collector 's item , ’ says Peter Osborne , Marlow 's sales and marketing director . |
| 2 | The advancing edge or step is now twice the normal height and so would require twice the amount of new material if it were to advance at the same rate as the other layers . |
| 3 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 4 | In separate developments it was confirmed at a UK House of Commons defence committee on Nov. 8 , that low-level flying in the UK after 11 pm was to be increased during 1990 . |
| 5 | It was hidden at the bottom of a drawer , remember . |
| 6 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 7 | This exhibition has been sent from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York , where it was seen at the end of last year in a larger version and under the title ‘ Celebrating Calder ’ . |
| 8 | As for naval campaigning , much of it was done at a great distance . |
| 9 | And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well . |
| 10 | It was undertaken at the request of the school by John Swain and Carole Thirlaway ( from the local polytechnic ) and involved the following steps : |
| 11 | Begun as a Romanesque basilica in 1200 , it was completed at the west end in Gothic style about 1350 . |
| 12 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 13 | But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day . |
| 14 | But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly . |
| 15 | It was learning at an early age that her natural mother had abandoned her which sent the shock waves vibrating through her childhood , adolescence and early adulthood . |
| 16 | Yesterday it was played at a meeting of wildlife agencies called in Kirkwall to discuss the best way to move the whales out of Scapa Flow . |
| 17 | Worcester was well-positioned to fulfil this role , for it was sited at the edge of an arable area to the south and east and a pastoral zone to the north and west . |
| 18 | Ruotolo apparently submitted , but then published a pamphlet attacking current exegesis , especially as it was taught at the Biblicum . |
| 19 | Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance . |
| 20 | When it was pointing at the far corner of the floor , it emitted a stream of high-pitched bleeps . |
| 21 | It was situated at the far end of the house , above the sweet store room . |
| 22 | Throughout the Middle Ages it was situated at the centre of a major marcher lordship , guarding one of the principal river crossings from southern England into Wales . |
| 23 | It was situated at the bottom of York Street along with Edward , Vulcan and Howard Streets , York Street ran off Cleveland Street beside the main rail line . |
| 24 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |
| 25 | Luckily , this was not damaged by the hurricane because it was kept at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh . |
| 26 | It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice . |
| 27 | If the National Health Service Management Executive was to tackle this issue it might find that it was pushing at an open door . |
| 28 | It was moving at an incredible speed through the green desert . |
| 29 | Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left . |
| 30 | It was developed at the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield . |