Example sentences of "it was [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 2 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 3 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 4 | It was screwed to the jamb of a doorway that gave access to the premises of Henson & Burbidge , Fat and Bone Dealers . |
| 5 | It was getting to the point that whenever he saw a policeman sauntering along the crowded streets he chose for his phone calls his stomach turned over . |
| 6 | It was getting to the point where it was either me or the birds ! |
| 7 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 8 | Remember , when the sterling was redeposited with the UK bank only 90 per cent of it was credited to the NBPS ; 10 per cent was deposited in the name of the overseas bank and is not included in normal definitions of the money supply . |
| 9 | If the human mind had been created in such a way that it was matched to the intelligibility of nature , then the possibility of secure scientific knowledge could be affirmed . |
| 10 | It was applied to the birds by the ornithologist William Swainson ( 1789–1855 ) , who wrote extensively and produced a number of well illustrated works . |
| 11 | It was surrendered to the Crown in 1539 , and sold by Henry VIII to Lawrence Washington , who built the present house . |
| 12 | It was n't likely that it was connected to the local cop shop . |
| 13 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 14 | After 8 April the aluminium returned to tapwater when a mains burst : sludge was found at the bottom of a glass of water but when it was sent to the authority for analysis it was discarded as ‘ too sludgy ’ . |
| 15 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 16 | They have n't received your invoice or statement because it was n't sent or it was sent to the wrong address . |
| 17 | ‘ It was sent to the press , at least to one paper , the Paternoster Review . |
| 18 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |
| 19 | But it was sent to the National Security Council and in the meantime Secretary of Defense Johnson , according to the internal ‘ History of the Indo-China Incident ’ prepared for and by the Joint Chiefs of Staff , had called upon the NSC to determine exactly how US security was threatened by the current situation in the Far East and to formulate tentative courses of action which were to be co-ordinated for the whole region and were to outline specific objectives to be attained . |
| 20 | The Hudson Report , a very thorough and painstaking piece of work , was a long time in gestation ; it was sent to the Minister towards the end of 1973 and was eventually published in July 1974 . |
| 21 | It was sent to the lost-luggage office to wait for its owner . |
| 22 | In reply , the Commission stated that under articles 4(2) and 8 of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 it was to submit to the Council of the European Communities before 31 December 1991 a report on the fisheries situation in the Community , the economic and social development of the coastal areas and the state of the stocks and their likely evolution . |
| 23 | It was made an oblast of the Russian Federation and repopulated largely by Russians , but in 1954 it was ceded to the Ukraine . |
| 24 | It was pipped to the post for first UK practice by West Country-based Bishop Fleming , which received the right to display the IP 's laurel wreath emblem in April . |
| 25 | It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island ! |
| 26 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 27 | It was moved to the Saturday nearest that date for convenience . |
| 28 | A niece took over the post office when she married , and it was moved to the present premises . |
| 29 | A NORTH Wales MP says he is disappointed that Flint post office is to be sold off , only nine months after it was franchised to the private sector . |
| 30 | But Felix Road was n't in the main town , nor yet on the outskirts ; it was situated to the north of the city and gave its name to the acres of housing that was home to the poor , the destitute , and the dregs of humanity . |