Example sentences of "and it was [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plots of land were provided where houses could be built near the coast and it was hoped that fishing would become the occupation of former crofters ; it was the beginning of the villages . |
| 2 | Their previous cutter Vigilant was still going strong and it was hoped that Searcher would have an equally successful career . |
| 3 | Er i and it was given that image by pointing the cameras at at at the flats , and then spieling off the crime figures for the whole subdivision . |
| 4 | North Merseyside was dismissed immediately as existing staff would be unlikely to wish to relocate to the area and it was felt such a location would not serve to enhance the company 's recruitment image . |
| 5 | In the meantime , a search for a suitable building site had been carried out and it was decided that ground at Leith being prepared before the war for the Western Harbour extension was ideally suited for the purpose . |
| 6 | Unfortunately we were not able to meet all the requirements for County support and it was decided some time ago that we would go ahead with an experimental opening without it . |
| 7 | The first was that the informal wages policy arranged by Bevin had been successful in stemming wartime inflation , and it was assumed this could be continued in peacetime . |
| 8 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 9 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 10 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 11 | The tenant died within nine months after the grant of the council house tenancy and it was held that section 87 did not protect the defendant . |
| 12 | The defendant thought that he was being attacked when he acted , and it was held that self-defence was available to him . |
| 13 | And they said , just said in the end again there was er an article or something and it was saying that you know that er did did you eventually get the money ? |
| 14 | And it 's as if it was n't floating on the surface and it was doing all the things that fishes do but it was |
| 15 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 16 | Discussion took place over Korea and it was agreed that trusteeship was the appropriate policy to adopt . |
| 17 | Mr referred to the provisions of the Data Protection Act , and it was agreed that permission would not be given . |
| 18 | Freud began to develop his theories in 1886 during the Victorian Age , a time when it was socially unacceptable to discuss sex , and it was considered that woman and children should be seen and not heard . |
| 19 | Zurich , in the Middle Ages , was Switzerland 's most important city , and it was to stay that way . |
| 20 | Means of relief were sought , and it was found that fever , produced artificially or by deliberate infection with malaria , produced remissions . |
| 21 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 22 | During the summer months climbing charges rose considerably and it was rumoured that climbing access would be curtailed , due , in part , to malicious damage to gates and fencing ( although there was no proof that this was done by climbers ) . |