Example sentences of "it was [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanguard , hinting at possible pragmatic advantages to the pro-Libyan stance , declared it was taking a populist , anti-terrorist position : ‘ We must condemn all terrorism even if it means upsetting the Libyans and getting no money from their Embassy ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 2 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 3 | Despite its claim to be an educational body , the Club could not escape the charge that it was taking an organized part in politics . |
| 4 | But there 's been a few hairy things , stabbings and it was getting a wee bit dodgy so she 's given that up . |
| 5 | And the the firm was very annoyed at hearing this name getting banded about because it was getting a bad name . |
| 6 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 7 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 8 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 9 | When it was done the reddish gold hair licked round the edge of her mob cap like a straight silken fringe , and there was no consoling her . |
| 10 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 11 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 12 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 13 | While the world criticised Israel , America made only its usual token gestures of condemnation because it was supporting the CIA-backed Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel to the tune of more than $4 million . |
| 14 | It was leaving an impressive vapour trail . |
| 15 | The National Liberal Party ( NLP ) announced on April 11 that it was leaving the Democratic Convention ( DC ) , the election alliance of 14 opposition parties formed for the February 1992 local elections . |
| 16 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 17 | A controversial memo to hospital consultants has been withdrawn after claims it was creating a two-tier health system . |
| 18 | Dorries said two other companies had established Glaxo-style schemes , and BP Exploration recently announced that it was creating an in-house childcare information service on nursery places and childminders . |
| 19 | It was issuing the final invitation to apply for Channel 5 — the last national terrestrial television station likely to be set up in Britain — after a three-month delay caused by technical problems . |
| 20 | Even though by 1873 it was proclaimed the biggest brewing company in the world , Truman 's too found itself under pressure from the growing popularity of Burton ales . |
| 21 | He added that it was believed an anti-aircraft gun was in the locality and that it was fired recently . |
| 22 | Cleveland police said it was believed an electrical fault started the fire in a ground-floor flat . |
| 23 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 24 | By the 1920s it was enjoying a wide circulation . |
| 25 | It was coating the flowing brown surface with shimmering , sparkling gold . |
| 26 | It was debated no fewer than five times on the Floor of the House and was given long and detailed scrutiny by a Select Committee over 26 days . |
| 27 | The office was linked to , but separate from , that of Chief Huntsman ( Grand Veneur ) , whose staff consisted of Captains and Lieutenants resplendent in green and gold , whose duty it was to organize the Imperial hunts , particularly — during the autumn season — those which were held at Compiègne . |
| 28 | A clash with Saudi border guards at al-Khofous 130 km south-east of Doha on Sept. 30 left one Qatari warrant officer and an Egyptian national serving in the Emirate 's armed forces dead , and caused the government to announce on Oct. 1 that it was revoking a 1965 defence agreement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 29 | It was forming a tough bony carapace as stimulated cells altered their nature , hardening to horn . |
| 30 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |