Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 2 | More generally , the Marre Committee was convinced by the evidence which it received that ignorance was a major cause of people not seeking legal advice when it was appropriate . |
| 3 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 4 | He was having it done this afternoon were n't he ? |
| 5 | In the end , it seemed that sex was all you ever wanted from me . |
| 6 | Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged . |
| 7 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 8 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 9 | When , in July 1939 , it seemed that war was inevitable , the Poles decided to give the French and the British the results of their research , as well as two actual Enigma machines . |
| 10 | With his most famous work , the miner 's safety-lamp , it seemed that science was saving lives as well as boosting the economy . |
| 11 | It seemed both sides were optimistic last night that an agreement could be reached . |
| 12 | It seemed another play was about to be abandoned but he finally arrived and leapt up to the platform to make a rather more dignified ‘ Entry into Jerusalem ’ . |
| 13 | However , as it happened this door was not quite closed . |
| 14 | It acknowledged that education was both a consumption and investment . |
| 15 | After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket . |
| 16 | No you 're not put it down , go away that 's for Benjamin 's birthday , I do n't want it getting dirty while were having er tea |
| 17 | So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain . |
| 18 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 19 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
| 20 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 21 | It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth . |
| 22 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 23 | As fast as it formed this spume was whisked away into the cave from where it was sucked into a natural wind tunnel and finally shot from a huge blow hole towards the centre of Fianuis . |
| 24 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 25 | It said 21 people were killed in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning . |
| 26 | It said more evidence was needed , and added : ‘ The information upon which the Tomlinson report based its recommendations was wholly inadequate . ’ |
| 27 | It said previous experience was not necessary . |
| 28 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 29 | It concluded more patients were being treated and waiting times had been cut . |
| 30 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |