Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 5 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 6 | I can remember when that Upton bypass , when it was done the cry there was about that ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was believed the man had a gun . |
| 11 | They were not told until 4pm on Friday , yet it was believed the leak started on Wednesday . |
| 12 | It was understood the girl , who may give evidence , and her mother were present in court . |
| 13 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 14 | Some of the greens , sown only in the autumn that year , were described as near perfection less than a year later , although on balance it was accepted the course had to mature , the turf being described as a little scarce in places . |
| 15 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |
| 16 | It was re-named the West Course because sensitive Japanese visitors did not wish to be reminded of that infamous stretch where thousands of servicemen died . |
| 17 | The Severn could not be considered a complete failure , however , for from it was developed the very successful Saro A.27 London flying-boat . |
| 18 | It was mooted the association |
| 19 | On Aug. 23 it was announced the Zimbabwe had cancelled the purchase of MiG-29 aircraft from Russia . |
| 20 | With aircraft on the unserviceable field at Abbotsinch and others thirty to forty miles away at Prestwick , and the carrier en route to Glasgow with a scheduled departure in three days , it was decided the only possible solution remaining was Renfrew — if the ATA could come through and land Spitfires on the tiny field . |
| 21 | It was decided the risk of going on was too great and the team retreated . |
| 22 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 23 | It was decided the magazine should be re-designed to respond to this customer feed-back . |
| 24 | It certainly would n't be against the ideological er ideas of the Party but I mean that it was an ideological , it was more practical cos it was , it was related the purification campaign of the Party , cos we know they 're having these campaigns |
| 25 | It was given the trade mark , ‘ Indral ’ and the generic , or chemical name , propranolol . |
| 26 | Even before it was given the food , the dog began to produce saliva in response to the appetizing smell . |
| 27 | In fact , its success was such that it was given the ‘ unique honour ’ of being made the secretariat to the Intergroup on Animal Welfare — an all-party committee which discusses welfare issues . |
| 28 | It was not a directly elected body , though it was given the right under the Treaty to draw up proposals for direct elections . |
| 29 | Established in 1963 it was given the task of finding ways to review and reform the curriculum by encouraging change within the schools themselves . |
| 30 | It was given the authority to send William Mingay to Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital at Northampton for ‘ re-education of the muscles ’ for a period of three months , the cost not to exceed £2 per week . |