Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that 's a natural as it were adapted effect of the Trivers Willard effect , there are plenty of cultural ones as well . |
| 2 | So it was organized collecting of |
| 3 | For the next fortnight it was examined section by section . |
| 4 | Established by Congress on Aug. 2 , it was given responsibility for drawing up a plan within 150 days for the " pacification " of the country . |
| 5 | It was given approval after careful consideration by a Government committee on the ethics of genetics which is supervising developments on what is now medicine 's most controversial frontier . |
| 6 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |
| 7 | It was made part of The East Surrey Regiment in 1916 , and in 1935 was converted to an anti-aircraft role as part of The Royal Engineers . |
| 8 | It was made use of on 8 November by Cardinal Frings of Cologne precisely to call the Theological Commission into line , reminding it that it was there to carry out the wishes of the Council , not to determine what the Council should decide . |
| 9 | It was flecked cloth with zips down the side of the jacket — which looked absolutely horrible — and peg trousers . |
| 10 | It was called Tit for Tat , and was submitted by Professor Anatol Rapoport , a well-known psychologist and games theorist from Toronto . |
| 11 | It was called Bird of Freedom . |
| 12 | On the ground floor of the annexe there was a large room where the boarders , and those day boys who took it , ate school lunch ( it was called dinner at the Cullbridge Comprehensive , but lunch at Burleigh — which somewhat excused the meagreness of it , though not the high price charged for it ) . |
| 13 | Police divers worked through the night in the Sharpness to Gloucester canal at Sharpness docks , recovering the woman 's body , after it was discovered half-submerged by walkers . |
| 14 | ‘ Then you 'll also know that Zimbala has been a one-party state since it was granted independence by the French forty-five years ago . ’ |
| 15 | When the line came through here , it was built inch by inch through solid rock . |
| 16 | Over at the Abbey Stadium , it was wrotten afternoon for Swindon . |
| 17 | These global figures masked an estimated decrease in the revenue funding for mentally ill patients , for whom it was thought redeployment of the running costs of the hospitals to be closed would , in the long term , fund the new services . |
| 18 | For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers . |
| 19 | As already suggested , it was paid participation in war which saved a large number of the nobility and , in certain cases , helped them improve their social status . |
| 20 | It was sucked flat in moments , and incorporated into the expanding blob . |