Example sentences of "it was [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gate is probably indicative of the way the new wall looked when it was eventually completed by Azzone Visconti in the thirteenth-century . |
| 2 | The Gloucestershire Whigs , for example , drew up an address against those who had " showed respect " to Sacheverell on his progress , and although it was eventually rejected by the grand jury , which was dominated by Tory JPs , a number of subscriptions were procured , especially by the local Nonconformist ministers amongst the " spinners and weavers and other mean people under their teaching " . |
| 3 | It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states . |
| 4 | It was eventually converted to a corn mill , operated during the 1880s by George Lewis who was followed around the turn of the century by Mr J. Nicholls . |
| 5 | It was eventually decided at the Council meeting that farmers should be approached about renting out a plot of land for a short time for the travellers whilst the search for a permanent site continued . |
| 6 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 7 | The request by the National History Museum for the loan of the skeleton in 1902 was turned down , but it was eventually presented to that museum when the heavily criticised RCVS museum was closed in 1921 . |
| 8 | His most bitter disappointment came when the music entrepreneur Phil Spector pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written called The Last Movie ( it was eventually produced in 1970 ) about Hollywood 's exploitation and destruction of South American Indians . |
| 9 | The mill was owned and operated by successive members of the Tayloe family for over a century , until it was eventually sold by Hester Tayloe . |
| 10 | It was eventually taken into state care in 1912 , and has been open to the public ever since . |
| 11 | It was eventually published in 1966 under the title of English in Advertising : a Linguistic Study of Advertising in Great Britain . |
| 12 | By the time it was eventually closed in 1988 , new investors had brought the total to £116 million . |
| 13 | It was eventually returned by Agnew 's because one Anna Cavina had pronounced it a copy ’ . |
| 14 | During the three days at the conference and the two-week course that followed , it was categorically stated on several occasions that PMLD children are not suitable for Conductive Education . |
| 15 | These could be controlled by the driver , on either side , enabling the cars to load at central islands , as envisaged on the Lytham Road route before it was conventionally relaid in 1936 . |
| 16 | It follows that the echolocation technology has been independently developed in bats and birds , just as it was independently developed by British , American and German scientists . |
| 17 | The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket , which was what it was principally used for . |
| 18 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 19 | The film was not intended to be a realistic portrayal of the war : indeed , it was thematically based on Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , set in Africa at the turn of the century . |
| 20 | Quedlinburg is now an unimportant town in the formerly East German Land of Sachsen-Anhalt , but it had its decades of glory in the early Middle Ages when it was closely connected with the German imperial court . |
| 21 | He also showed that it was closely connected with erysipelas . |
| 22 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 23 | It was closely related to a naturally occurring substance . |
| 24 | a party if it was closely linked to that party by organisation , loyalty to party goals and the partisanship of its readers . |
| 25 | The Supreme Soviet could at best exercise only a marginal influence on policy , laws and appointments since it was closely controlled by the executive ( see chapter 15 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ When we were young it was deep mourning for a year and half mourning for six months , ’ Pat said . |
| 27 | And , of course , it was heavily hit by the Maxwell collapse . |
| 28 | In the event it was heavily defeated on 8 October on the issue of the Campbell Case . |
| 29 | The report was seen , therefore , as essentially practical though it was heavily influenced by the corporate planning theories advocated through the Institute of Local Government Studies and elsewhere . |
| 30 | Mr Tribe also confirms Bosnian Information Service reports in London that the Ghasihusrev Beg Library was at least partially destroyed when the eponymous mosque next to it was heavily shelled in May . |