Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 2 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With aircraft on the unserviceable field at Abbotsinch and others thirty to forty miles away at Prestwick , and the carrier en route to Glasgow with a scheduled departure in three days , it was decided the only possible solution remaining was Renfrew — if the ATA could come through and land Spitfires on the tiny field . |
| 9 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 10 | In 1945 it was given the royal accolade and since 1954 it has had its headquarters in Croydon , although the College of St. Nicolas ( latterly at Addington Palace ) closed in 1974 . |
| 11 | In 1965 it was designated the Socialist Republic of Romania , which title was changed to the Republic of Romania on Dec. 29 , 1989 . |
| 12 | And guess who it was made the original identification and said , ‘ Yes , that 's Uncle Mosse ’ and was his sole heir ? ’ |
| 13 | But later it was revealed the real reason for Benn 's no-show was that he was too frightened to catch a cold . |
| 14 | It was called the Advanced Passenger Train . |
| 15 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 16 | Oh it was just er just I suppose luck , just an idea to have the last sheaf it was called the maiden sheaf . |
| 17 | Indeed the best selling book of the nineteen seventies in American politics by a famous historian Arthur Schlesinger Junior called , it was called The Imperial Presidency . |
| 18 | It was called the Joint Framework for Social Policy ( CPRS , 1975 ; Klein , 1988 ) . |
| 19 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 20 | For this reason , it was called the Golden Bough and was believed to cure diseases in humans and cattle . |
| 21 | It was called the Red and Green Alternative ( L'Alternative rouge et verte ) and described itself as " socialist , autogestionnaire ( an anarcho-syndicalist concept favouring workers ' self-rule or self-administration ) , feminist , ecologist and internationalist " . |
| 22 | It was called the Psychological Club , but basically it was all centred around this one very strange guy who had interpreted Jung 's teachings in a very strange way . |
| 23 | That 's why it was called The Mad House . |
| 24 | How it was called The Mad House . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I always like to help The Thin Blue Line , ’ I smiled , not adding that in Brixton it was called The Thick , etc . |
| 26 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 27 | It was called the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive , or NIREX for short . |
| 28 | Why it was called the holy alliance was because erm er the signatories agreed that they would er , that they would rule their states and treat er er policy erm er according to christian principles . |
| 29 | in Scotland and erm it was called the senior secondary then . |
| 30 | It was dated the fifteenth of April nineteen ninety three . |