Example sentences of "it was [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When studied by Davis in the mid-1960s it was undergoing a transition from a relatively self-contained peasant society to one forming part of a much wider market economy . |
| 2 | During a debate held on Jan. 22 members of the Legislative Council ( Legco ) attacked the United Kingdom government for the manner in which it was handling the replacement of the colony 's Governor , Sir David Wilson . |
| 3 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 4 | It was to compare a seaside town with a market town or summat . |
| 5 | Union Discount alleged that it was owed a duty of care by the auditors when they reported on the audit . |
| 6 | Suddenly it was taking every atom of her will-power to stop that hand from doing what it longed to do — namely rise up and tangle with the silky black hair that curled so invitingly round Guido 's left ear . |
| 7 | However , they were oppressed , perhaps not altogether surprisingly , by the thought that , if the Act meant no more than , in plain terms , it said , then it was taking a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since the ambit of the exclusion — and thus the utility of the special procedures — would be very considerably narrowed . |
| 8 | It was taking a risk , when she thought about it , to go to the seaside in September . |
| 9 | When they had problems not so long ago it was taking a month . |
| 10 | Anglian Water , which covers East Anglia , with Britain 's fastest growing population and lowest rainfall , said it was taking the action to help preserve water stocks . |
| 11 | Well we could a continued it for erm , well I du n no , but erm it was getting a bit out of hand with the picket line really , cos there was a lot of these youngsters who were n't prepared to do these picket line . |
| 12 | They did n't seem to mind me hanging in there , but it was getting a bit like the ocean liner scene in the Marx brothers ' Night at the Opera . |
| 13 | he was out moaning again yesterday , so I just thought it was getting a bit long round where the old septic tank used to be oh sha n't and we 've done Tesco 's so that clock 's right is n't it ? |
| 14 | Yeah it was getting a bit heavy were n't it ? |
| 15 | yeah cos it was getting a bit raw there was n't it ? |
| 16 | Yeah , and it was getting a bit dark and I could n't see |
| 17 | In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool . |
| 18 | Well it was it was that 's right it was getting the dirt out of the clothes you see . |
| 19 | But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship , they were to be quickly disillusioned . |
| 20 | When he next spoke it was to ask the forgiveness of anyone present whom he had unwittingly wronged during his ministry in Krishnapur . |
| 21 | It was interesting to note how difficult it was to ask the questions as well as answer them . |
| 22 | It was seeing the animals . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 24 | Pressure from Lord Scarman and others in the House of Lords forced a change on the Government when it was enacting the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 25 | In the colonial courts payments were not made to the judge , but to witnesses , court officials and lawyers whose task it was to manipulate the evidence placed before the judge in order to produce an outcome favourable to the client . |
| 26 | Oh , but this , it was catching the tooth that had the abscessing underneath it |
| 27 | I can remember when that Upton bypass , when it was done the cry there was about that ! |
| 28 | The De Haan family , which owns 63 per cent of the travel to financial services company , said it was considering an offer to buy the remainder of the shares at about £3 each . |
| 29 | A Chinese delegation , headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin , visited Brunei on April 10-13 , 1991 , after which the government announced that it was considering the matter of establishing diplomatic relations with China and wished to have economic and cultural exchanges . |
| 30 | The filaments on the underside of barnacles were found to resemble the bird 's feathers , so it was assumed the goose emerged half-grown from the barnacles clustered on floating logs . |