Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were given planning permission the store would create 200 jobs . |
| 2 | This treaty was enlarged and extended on 24 June 1931 and it was given material expression in Afghan neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 3 | More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests . |
| 4 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
| 5 | The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community . |
| 6 | It was called mustard gas and was used at Ypres in 1917 , when it caused many thousands of casualties . |
| 7 | It was called Market Research . |
| 8 | I tied a fly which was extremely successful and it was called Hordern Pheasant Tail Nymph . |
| 9 | It was called number ring ( Zahlring , by Hilbert , 1897 ) . |
| 10 | It was renamed Gallaudet College in 1894 in honour of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , founder in 1817 of the first American school for the deaf at Hartford , Connecticut , and became Gallaudet University , on being granted university status in 1987 . |
| 11 | On April 11 , 1990 , Czechoslovakia formally applied to join the Council of Europe , and it was granted observer status on May 7 [ see below for Havel 's address on May 10 ] . |
| 12 | It was christened Homo habilis ( Handy Man ) . |
| 13 | It was feared Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke was less supportive of state gambling than predecessor David Mellor . |
| 14 | I produced the original cartoon in tempera ; it was entitled Treasure Trove and based on an Aesop Fable . |