Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 2 | So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing . |
| 3 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 4 | Ironically it was part-time spinner Aamir Sohail who pulled the rug from under England by dismissing Ian Botham for 40 and Trent Bridge destroyer Graeme Hick for just eight . |
| 5 | Oh , I could n't cos we ran out , and when we came back it was ten o clock and I thought , well . |
| 6 | Unfortunately it was classic summer weather . |
| 7 | I was n't a brave boy , not physically , that is , but then it was unlikely Mr Broadhurst had anything physical in mind . |
| 8 | When I was a child he was selling insurance , then he was offloading imported sheepskin coats in the London street markets , then it was free range eggs . |
| 9 | The increase in national insurance gave the Government ‘ more freedom for movement next year ’ , when it was unlikely Mr Lamont would still be Chancellor . |
| 10 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |