Example sentences of "it was [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 2 | The class system created to operate the new economy in both the case of capitalism and ancient society leads to such opposition , exploitation , and contradiction that the system for which it was created collapses . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was seeing signs advertising ‘ Blogg 's Beer ’ that led East Enders to immortalise the name Bloggs as the Cockney equivalent of Mr Everyman . |
| 4 | The US said it was considering sanctions . |
| 5 | New Zealand 's Russ Thomas , chairman of the RWC board , said last night it was considering adjustments to the schedule announced — without prior notification to the SRU — in Cape Town in January . |
| 6 | He spent a world record £13m on Gianluigi Lentini last year and some observers say it was to stop others having him , not because Milan needed him . |
| 7 | He also lit the fires ; and ‘ we never knew what it was to clean boots or shoes . |
| 8 | The Japanese government , which also strongly supported a return to commercial whaling , announced that it was holding talks with Russia and South Korea with a view to setting up a similar organization for " rational exploitation " of marine mammals in the north Pacific . |
| 9 | No , she wanted some flip flops , but they did n't have any there either , but they had a lot of shell suits , cos I thought it was skiing ones at first . |
| 10 | The DTI had already announced in early April that it was appointing consultants to consider the practicability of privatising AEA . |
| 11 | BBA , the automotive parts to aircraft interiors group , yesterday announced it was tapping shareholders for £126 million to pay for expansion in continental Europe . |
| 12 | ‘ It was planned ages ago and it was going to be a big do , but I do n't know what will happen now . ’ |
| 13 | The town of La Rochelle was granted a " commune " , in other words it was given rights of self-government and allowed to elect a mayor instead of having to put up with being ruled by an official imposed upon it from above . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the Israeli government indicated that it was prepared to discuss the demand for Yassin 's release if it was given assurances that Toledano was alive . |
| 15 | AS the row over Labour 's election broadcast grew it was revealed grandparents of a four-year-old boy paid out £300 for a private ear operation to avoid a six-months wait on the health service . |
| 16 | It was to see houses on expensive sites rise constantly higher , the consequent birth of the ‘ lift ’ or ‘ elevator ’ , and in the 1880s the construction of the first ‘ skyscrapers ’ in the United States . |
| 17 | Incidentally , how nice it was to see Parks keeping wicket for Hampshire . |
| 18 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |
| 19 | It was raining cats and dogs and the teachers were running in and out helping us get our stuff in and just could n't do enough for us . |
| 20 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 21 | I expect it was said Pegs but you better be careful Tim . |
| 22 | Yet the government has long managed to appear as though it was teaching Pythagoras to four-year-olds . |
| 23 | First it was lost Christians who came . |
| 24 | On Feb. 21 India announced that it was sending medicines worth Rs10,000,000 while Algeria donated some 8 tonnes of food and medicines . |
| 25 | While this was not seen as condoned truancy , headmasters warned that it was sending signals about the relative lack of importance of regular attendance . |
| 26 | At the turn of the century it was appointed watchmakers to the Admiralty and in 1908 the firm was awarded the Grand Prix in the horological section of the Franco-British Exhibition in London . |
| 27 | This is , presumably , why Lockheed found it necessary to ensure that it was granted contracts around the world by offering financial inducements to decision-makers in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 28 | It was watching others , physically far worse than myself , watching their reactions and often their ‘ progress ’ , that was to have the most profound effect . |
| 29 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 30 | The youth final was a game of many chances but it was defending champions Friends of Allonby who scored just five seconds before half time against Viking . |