Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular buys among those who intended to spend part of it were headed by household furnishings ( 28% ) , a new car ( 23% ) , gifts to children ( 20% ) and travel ( 19% ) ; only 5% splashed out on a home extension . |
| 2 | The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres . |
| 3 | Such research would be all the more effective if it were done in conjunction with the European and British institutes for tropical research that I discussed earlier this year ( 3 and 20 January , pp 106 and 183 ) . |
| 4 | As their eyes met and held , the message in his was as unreadable to Lisa as though it were written in Sanskrit . |
| 5 | Claudia , waking with a head that felt as if it were filled with lead , almost fell out of bed as her alarm rang . |
| 6 | He tossed it aside as if it were made of straw and she knew she would be lost if he touched her . |
| 7 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 8 | This was an outstanding achievement , since we began the dinner ( with Avocado aux Crevettes de Blackpool ) unsettlingly divided : the organisers ( Central Office again ) had expanded the Top Table so ridiculously , in an attempt to flatter those who care about such things , that all of us who were n't on it were consumed with envy . |
| 9 | If it were enacted in isolation , however , and if , in particular , there were no new constitutional settlement to underpin it , it is hard to see how problems with parliamentary sovereignty could be avoided . |
| 10 | The agreement was also denounced by many liberal Democrats on the grounds that the spending cuts contained within it were orientated towards welfare programmes and , therefore , were targeted at those least able to absorb them . |
| 11 | Each song was repeated a number of times until the audience had learned the tune , then copies of it were offered for sale . |
| 12 | Notice that a similar interpretation would arise , and no loss of information would result , if monarch were replaced by a synonym or paraphrase such as sovereign , or crowned head ( and automobile would interact in the same way with the context if it were substituted for car in 16 and 17 ) . |
| 13 | His difficulty is that his party has nothing to tell him about what it would spend if it were returned to power , which it will not be . |
| 14 | Given Labour 's stormy internal debates on foreign and defence issues since 1951 and despite the recent defeat of the unilateralists on nuclear disarmament , Washington was understandably anxious to gain some advance impressions of Labour 's likely behaviour if it were returned to power . |
| 15 | Nevertheless an object , resting on the ground by its own weight alone , can be a fixture , if it be so heavy that there is no need to tie it into a foundation , and if it were put in place to improve the realty … |
| 16 | The medieval oak furniture , dark and glowing , was said by Mr Hulsby to look as if it were nourished on stout . |
| 17 | Those soldiers on Ukraine 's territory who would not swear allegiance to it were shipped off home . |
| 18 | Some think it looks a bit '70s but I disagree ; if it were sandwiched with mahogany , maybe , but for me the maple just adds a nice touch of detail . |
| 19 | Omitting external glutamate ( Fig. 1 a ) or sodium ( Fig. 1 b ) abolished this pH o change , as would be expected if it were produced by glutamate uptake . |
| 20 | Each Dobson unit is a hundredth of a millimetre and refers to the thickness of the stratospheric ozone layer that would result if it were brought to sea level pressure and temperature . |
| 21 | In addition to the splitting there has occurred some penetration of very thin plates of bone such as occur on the scapula ( Fig. 1.4N ) and some breakage of the borders of such bone ( the scapula illustrated here was not modified in any way before it was exposed for weathering ) . |
| 22 | It was explained in Chapter 7 that in certain contexts no is pronounced , but the theory mentioned in the last sentence would claim that at an abstract level there is a phoneme , though in certain contexts the is not actually pronounced . |
| 23 | It was popularised on television in the 1950s by David Butler , a 26-year-old Oxford researcher . |
| 24 | Contrast enhanced computed tomography ( n=29 ) , or operation ( n=15 ) , or both confirmed the diagnosis in 32 patients and it was confirmed by ultrasound scan in the remaining four patients . |
| 25 | It was confirmed by Justice Minister Ghazi Obeid as Sammar , who said that all other sentences handed down by martial law courts would be upheld . |
| 26 | Following municipal law agency principles a third party could claim that it was bound with respect to the protectorate provided the agent had acted within the scope of its express , implied , or apparent authority . |
| 27 | It was hidden under matting in the octagonal library above the Chapter house and seems to have escaped the notice of all previous surveyors and writers including Nikolaus Pevsner , who mentions the library in his guidebook but not its flooring . |
| 28 | The US state of Hawaii suffered severe damage on Sept. 11 when it was struck by Hurricane Iniki , the strongest to have hit the Hawaiian islands during the 20th century . |
| 29 | On that occasion , he criticized the existing monetary system , the so-called gold exchange standard , on the grounds that it was skewed in favour of the United States . |
| 30 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |