Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church . |
| 2 | OMG president , Chris Stone , said Software AG would certainly be able to bring a product to market much more quickly if it were to use the OMG-compliant HD-DOMS for the task . |
| 3 | By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term . |
| 4 | The main forum was generally placed at the central cross-roads and round it were grouped the chief buildings of the town . |
| 5 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 6 | Yes , in that sense , in that sense , the unconscious thought was expressed but the , but the point was , i the anxiety as it were got the better of the dream , did n't it , if you woke up ? |
| 7 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 8 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 11 | While the world criticised Israel , America made only its usual token gestures of condemnation because it was supporting the CIA-backed Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel to the tune of more than $4 million . |
| 12 | The National Liberal Party ( NLP ) announced on April 11 that it was leaving the Democratic Convention ( DC ) , the election alliance of 14 opposition parties formed for the February 1992 local elections . |
| 13 | It was issuing the final invitation to apply for Channel 5 — the last national terrestrial television station likely to be set up in Britain — after a three-month delay caused by technical problems . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was coating the flowing brown surface with shimmering , sparkling gold . |
| 17 | The office was linked to , but separate from , that of Chief Huntsman ( Grand Veneur ) , whose staff consisted of Captains and Lieutenants resplendent in green and gold , whose duty it was to organize the Imperial hunts , particularly — during the autumn season — those which were held at Compiègne . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 20 | Whether it was pointing the right way to capture who planted the bomb , we are still checking . ’ |
| 21 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |
| 22 | It was nearing the ninth hour , and Jesus , who had resisted sin throughout his life , now , because of his obedience , became sin itself — not by wilful act but by being made the crucible of the whole sum of human evil . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The book described it as ‘ remote ’ , but at this distance it seemed the centre of the world ; the eye of a ferocious storm whose outer edges could never pull free ; the heart of a titan , beating like thunder ; an energy so awesome that it was dragging the very edges of the forest ever closer . |
| 25 | Once changes have been made it is just as important to observe the modified unit in action as it was to conduct the initial trials . |
| 26 | Now it was accepting the democratic method to the extent of reaching agreement with the Liberals or even Conservatives . |
| 27 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1965 it was designated the Socialist Republic of Romania , which title was changed to the Republic of Romania on Dec. 29 , 1989 . |