Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 2 | The Philippines government had previously agreed to allow the return of the late President 's body if it were flown directly to his home province of Ilocos Norte and buried within nine days . |
| 3 | It was farmed out to Broadway people to put together , and cost an enormous amount of money . |
| 4 | It was getting through to the readers on a human level that counted . |
| 5 | So I thought I 'd put in for that , it was a lateral move you know , but still it was getting back to my depot and nearer my home . |
| 6 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 7 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 8 | The the forecast of there was nine thousand on the er bypass when it was completed fully to the A fifty nine . |
| 9 | On 6 November 1992 the rate of default interest was reduced from 9.25% to 7.75% , and on 6 December 1992 it was cut again to 7% . |
| 10 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 11 | Some at least of this reclamation of the ‘ waste ’ by enclosure was a failure , for it was applied indiscriminately to good land and bad . |
| 12 | However , it was applied mainly to equities . |
| 13 | It was not their only misinterpretation or a highly complex personality , but it was to turn out to be a very serious one as events were shortly to prove . |
| 14 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 15 | PHOTOGRAPHIC giant Kodak yesterday announced it was axing up to 125 UK jobs . |
| 16 | Cynics have suggested that the reason the Nelson Mandela bash attracted so many celebrities , at the expense of the more official Amnesty gig and an earlier AIDS benefit , was because it was televised worldwide to over one billion viewers . |
| 17 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 18 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 19 | He 's gone well here Agnew tried to curl a shot in it was blocked back to Ormanroyd now Lewis . |
| 20 | It was sent back to Machynlleth on the empty coaching stock , 0620 back to Aberystwyth , 0707 left Aberystwyth on the train . |
| 21 | The international news and financial information agency said it was bringing forward to April 5 the 15.9p per share payout . |
| 22 | At a conference in Geneva , organized by the International Environment Bureau ( IEB ) and composed of representatives of the largest multinational chemical concerns , the chairman of Ciba-Geigy , Alex Krauer , said on Sept. 20 , 1989 , that the industry was obliged to make " social and financial sacrifices " if it was to respond adequately to growing environmental concerns . |
| 23 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 24 | At places it was sinking up to eighteen inches . |
| 25 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 26 | It was pushed up to the top of the page . |
| 27 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 28 | It was pointed out to the young man that Philip was the chairman of CUM . |
| 29 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 30 | Then about four days later it was pointed out to me that a real earthquake actually hit Germany last week , and she was n't being poetic at all , and I actually felt cheated of the wave of emotion I had felt towards her . |