Example sentences of "it was [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a debate held on Jan. 22 members of the Legislative Council ( Legco ) attacked the United Kingdom government for the manner in which it was handling the replacement of the colony 's Governor , Sir David Wilson . |
| 2 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 3 | Anglian Water , which covers East Anglia , with Britain 's fastest growing population and lowest rainfall , said it was taking the action to help preserve water stocks . |
| 4 | Well it was it was that 's right it was getting the dirt out of the clothes you see . |
| 5 | But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship , they were to be quickly disillusioned . |
| 6 | When he next spoke it was to ask the forgiveness of anyone present whom he had unwittingly wronged during his ministry in Krishnapur . |
| 7 | In the colonial courts payments were not made to the judge , but to witnesses , court officials and lawyers whose task it was to manipulate the evidence placed before the judge in order to produce an outcome favourable to the client . |
| 8 | Oh , but this , it was catching the tooth that had the abscessing underneath it |
| 9 | I can remember when that Upton bypass , when it was done the cry there was about that ! |
| 10 | A Chinese delegation , headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin , visited Brunei on April 10-13 , 1991 , after which the government announced that it was considering the matter of establishing diplomatic relations with China and wished to have economic and cultural exchanges . |
| 11 | The filaments on the underside of barnacles were found to resemble the bird 's feathers , so it was assumed the goose emerged half-grown from the barnacles clustered on floating logs . |
| 12 | It was assumed the Frasque fitted somewhere in the Capellan scheme of things ; that they were another client species , as the Thrants and Eladeldi evidently were , though they seemed more enterprising and self-sufficient than most . |
| 13 | It was to inaugurate the movement of the freedmen from the private and irresponsible authority of master or steward to proper restraint under judicial power . |
| 14 | It was believed the man had a gun . |
| 15 | They were not told until 4pm on Friday , yet it was believed the leak started on Wednesday . |
| 16 | The first time it was to stop the defence counsel from questioning her about her sexual history , the second time it was to stop Anderson referring to the victim by her last name , as if talking about a defendent . |
| 17 | Dickens knew at first hand from his own childhood what it was to live the life of the poor . |
| 18 | It was understood the girl , who may give evidence , and her mother were present in court . |
| 19 | Boris Becker recently expressed the view that there was too much money in tennis and that it was ruining the game — a view of course that it is much easier to make objectively once you have £5m in the bank . |
| 20 | On Nov. 25 the new coalition government announced that it was to close the prison in the north-western town of Eskisehir where human rights groups had alleged that torture of political prisoners took place . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ said Lucifer 's daughter ( whose job it was to foot the ladder ) . |
| 22 | The federal army said it was holding the ring between Serb raiders and Croat policemen . |
| 23 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 24 | Pakistan ostensibly kept such ‘ strategic cooperation ’ secret to avoid the charge that it was violating the status of a non-aligned country . |
| 25 | Grimethorpe lost £1.8 million in the six months to last September , said British Coal , even though it was sharing the cost of the coal preparation plant with neighbouring Houghton Main . |
| 26 | It was to examine the structure , organization , training and regulation of the legal profession and to recommend those changes that would be desirable in the interests of justice . |
| 27 | It was chewing the rope with its ugly yellow teeth . |
| 28 | It was publishing the material because it existed , McGrath explained , and , while neither the paper nor staff were anti-semitic , ‘ Considering Ezra Pound 's achievements as a writer , making work of his generally available would seem to need no excuse … |
| 29 | On April 2nd the company announced it was slashing the price of its Marlboro cigarettes to compete with plain-brand rivals . |
| 30 | Er , paragraph four Chairman , is the point that Policy and Resources when it was addressing the fact that all of the proposals from committees that 's currently within the guidelines did still leave a shortfall between projected expenditure of the County Council and the capping limit . |