Example sentences of "it was [verb] the " 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 | It was interesting to note how difficult it was to ask the questions as well as answer them . |
| 8 | It was seeing the animals . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 10 | Pressure from Lord Scarman and others in the House of Lords forced a change on the Government when it was enacting the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Oh , but this , it was catching the tooth that had the abscessing underneath it |
| 13 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 16 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 17 | I can remember when that Upton bypass , when it was done the cry there was about that ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The government announced on June 8 that it was seizing the assets of foreign oil companies in an attempt to ease chronic fuel shortages . |
| 22 | He would have understood , too , the presence at Norman and Angevin courts of clerks whose function it was to extol the deeds of their princes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Russian Government denied that it was supporting the ‘ Kursk clique ’ but , for Ukrainian opinion , it must have seemed inconceivable that this were true . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was believed the man had a gun . |