Example sentences of "it [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 2 | He says that if it were rats which were passing on TB to cattle there would be no hesitation : the rats would be killed . |
| 3 | thought it were road he put all four in , and he went down , up |
| 4 | I think it were Jes what were telling you . |
| 5 | Free indirect style is a mode of narration which as it were fuses and interweaves the authorial narrator 's speech and the speech of the character . |
| 6 | Er I 'd say it were Dr Hilary Jones . |
| 7 | Urban II himself paid homage to this point of view when he introduced Anselm to the Curia as ‘ one who is almost our equal , being as it were Pope and Patriarch of the alter orbis ' . |
| 8 | Among those actively campaigning for it were scientist Joe Farman , who had " discovered " the hole in the ozone layer over the continent , French mariner Jacques Cousteau and polar explorer Robert Swan . |
| 9 | it were Joan really that put me right there it were thirteen as opposed to fifteen |
| 10 | There is also a staff of er other people , the ones that you you already know Michael who is is really responsible for the as it were welfare of volunteers and there 's another er what four people are n't there . |
| 11 | Yes I think there 's some , yeah yeah I , I think there 's , that 's one of the , the areas where er as it were attitudes are most small C conservative , that er sort of liberal heterosexuals whom I know er you know are often quite suspicious of that . |
| 12 | If it were gold . |
| 13 | " I ca n't think what pearl you and I could make , " Sara said , " unless it were Moorlake . " |
| 14 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |
| 15 | So erm Mill wants to protect minority from within the democratic procedure , that is he wants to set up erm a system of democracy which is as it were proof against majority corruption . |
| 16 | Prepared small group work can similarly be viewed in context as if it were video material , or plays acted out — showing , for example , the bravest thing they have ever done . |
| 17 | ‘ Now if it were Lady ’ she named a titled person at that time popular on television — ‘ it might make a difference . |
| 18 | er , I think it were Denmark Centre |
| 19 | I thought it were relay |
| 20 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 21 | So it is under our present system , and so it would be under the RES , if it were nomination either for a safe constituency seat or for a high position on a party list . |
| 22 | If it did start up , the Ariadne would ride more comfortably if it were bows on to it . |
| 23 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 24 | ‘ Frankly , I wish it were hemlock , but it 's brandy . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , thought it were Wendy 's children . |
| 26 | But they thought it were Wendy 's daughter ! |
| 27 | He suggests that the term ‘ porpoising ’ should be used to describe any aquatic animal that leaps out of the water and uses less energy than it would if it were surface swimming at the same speed . |
| 28 | right , Mr did it require his approval , as the , as it were officer in charge of brochures ? |
| 29 | No i I phoned insurance up and told them what they 'd said , cos I got Maggie to phone , it were Maggie that said , they told Maggie that they were gon na put a second hand wheel on and everything instead of a brand new one so she told insurance about it . |
| 30 | He wished it were Perdita at the end of the rope , he 'd like to see her crashing to the ground over and over again . |