Example sentences of "[prep] it [was/were] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away . |
2 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
3 | Pitted against it were the great princes , some with ambition to achieve political and legal independence of the crown . |
4 | Within it were the strong echoes of the disgust with politics that McCarthyism had induced , and the early excitement of the Beats and their progeny in Greenwich Village . |
5 | No they could n't but in our days , in the younger days , to keep off it was the French letters . |