Example sentences of "it was [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was closely related to a naturally occurring substance . |
| 5 | a party if it was closely linked to that party by organisation , loyalty to party goals and the partisanship of its readers . |
| 6 | It was tactfully conveyed to Baldwin that he would be welcome to stay for dinner but not afterwards . |
| 7 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 8 | It was thus held to be as authentic an image of the society within which it was produced as the gift , whose authenticity was premised upon its own totalizing ability . |
| 9 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 10 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 11 | It was electronically linked to their school . |
| 12 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |
| 13 | Thence it was finally brought to India in the thirteenth century by refugees fleeing Genghis Khan — at about the same time as Abelard was lecturing to his students at the new university of Paris . |
| 14 | It was only during the 1980s that it was finally laid to rest , enabling BR to run a fully modernised and streamlined freight system . |
| 15 | It was clearly related to the Lombard style of Northern Italy owing to the political links between the two countries under the Holy Roman Empire . |
| 16 | The judge pointed out that another clause in the contract of employment expressly described the prohibited business : it was clearly restricted to repairing or renovation of office furniture and commercial seating . |
| 17 | It was clearly going to be easier to obtain tickets in South Africa . |
| 18 | It was clearly going to be a little tougher than expected , but the visitors kept playing for hearts as well as minds . |
| 19 | Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law . |
| 20 | Although the ceremony itself was a simple one — a private exchange of shared intentions in which the most important formal element was the document which laid down precisely who got what in the case of divorce — it was nevertheless going to be used by both sets of parents as an excuse to throw a party , during which they would vie with each other in largesse , showing off their wealth as well as arranging useful introductions for their unmarried children . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the lower unit appears to have been extensively replaced by anhydrite to the point that on the original completion log , at least half of it was incorrectly attributed to the Z1 Anhydrite ( up to the arrow in Fig. 19 ) . |
| 22 | For instance , if a woman ‘ failed ’ to conceive it was frequently attributed to the unfavourable environment provided by the woman for otherwise vigorous sperm . |
| 23 | The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large . |
| 24 | As it moved inland its force was reduced and , on the afternoon of Aug. 26 , it was officially downgraded to the status of a tropical storm . |
| 25 | Although the League was a League of governments , not of peoples , it was officially committed to the view that public opinion was the ultimate guarantor of peace . |
| 26 | When it was irrefutably demonstrated to the museum 's elders in 1809 that the statue 's head was not genuine , however , its potential fakeness became a threat . |
| 27 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 28 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 29 | I certainly had a good time and judging by the sweat on everyone 's brow as they worked to perfect their routines I think it was generally thought to be enjoyable and worthwhile . |
| 30 | However , an international conference on school transport in Strasbourg decided that , despite the good safety record of buses and coaches , supervision was a particular problem because it was generally left to the driver , whose priorities obviously lay elsewhere . |