Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 2 | In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club . |
| 3 | It was confirmed this week that Ulster stars David Humphreys , Gary Longwell and Innes Gray were all staying with the students next season , with Humphreys as captain . |
| 4 | NEARLY £5billion has been put up by 2.2million private investors chasing water shares , it was confirmed last night , making the sale one of the most popular privatisations . |
| 5 | KING Hussein of Jordan DID have cancer , it was confirmed last night . |
| 6 | AN in-depth report on the Government 's major skills training scheme that was delivered to the Department of Employment three weeks ago will remain unpublished , it was confirmed last night . |
| 7 | It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office . |
| 8 | It was confirmed last night that Mr Lynch will work with Mr Bleasdale to plan the structure , budgets and contracts required for the ScotRail operating franchise — one of the first due to be set up under the privatisation plans . |
| 9 | RICHMOND Royal Park in southwest London has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the wildlife preserved there since it was created three centuries ago . |
| 10 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 11 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 12 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 13 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 14 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 15 | It was assumed that wisdom , as the sum of experience and self-control , grew with age . |
| 16 | Given the go-ahead in 1793 , it was completed 30 years later . |
| 17 | The noise that came with it was heard fifty miles away . |
| 18 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 19 | Against this , it was argued that government bodies which use public money to provide information to the public are under a special public law obligation to ensure that the information is accurate ; and this obligation , being a public law one , was properly enforceable by judicial review . |
| 20 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |
| 21 | And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I heard on good authority that Albert Reynolds sent an emissary to the north to make sure it was understood that Spring was not speaking for the government . |
| 24 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 25 | It was echoed this week by the US Secretary of State , James Baker . |
| 26 | It was re-coated last week ! |
| 27 | David Lodge 's screenplay of his novel Nice Work , which was the subject of his article in the last edition of The Birmingham Magazine , has received two awards since it was televised last autumn . |
| 28 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 545 ( part of the Spycatcher case ) it was recognised that information which Peter Wright had unearthed by his own endeavours was clearly covered by an obligation of confidence even though one could not say there existed a " confider " or " confidant " in relation to that information . |
| 29 | It was accepted that member states would operate their own national regional assistance instruments , whereas the Community 's preoccupation would be to ensure that national aid did not conflict with its competition policy , by providing protection for domestic industries under the guise of regional aid . |
| 30 | The matter was referred to the Committee on Privileges which recommended that the matter was covered by absolute privilege but when this was debated by the whole House , it was accepted that writing to a minister was not a proceeding before Parliament . |