Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was the Mancunian manic depressive bliss that was so alluring . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was the evasive eyes ; perhaps it was the permanent sly grin on the long narrow face which gave the impression that Skerritt was always secretly laughing at him . |
| 3 | So it was a big cheering surprise when I opened the front door of Eva 's house one day to find Uncle Ted standing there in his green overalls , a bag of tools hanging from his fist , smiling all over his chopped face . |
| 4 | So it was the dreaded wooden spoon for the Irish — in both ladies and gents competition , too . |
| 5 | All their movements were based more on habit and instinct and fear than any real threat but none the less it was an actual physical state . |
| 6 | Moreover it was the last mass circulation Liberal daily and was closed by abrupt merger with the Daily Mail — a Conservative paper . |
| 7 | It seems incredible , does n't it , but like it was the only practical way to do it was n't it ? |
| 8 | Ironically it was the former Labour prime minister Clement Attlee who persuaded Parliament to spend £2 million for a new royal yacht , claiming it would double as a hospital ship in war time . |
| 9 | He caught him and it turned out it was the assistant chief constable 's son . |
| 10 | Now it was a three hundred page document er have , have many of the delegates been able to have time to digest it at all ? |
| 11 | He could see now it was an immense refrigerated truck weighing God knew how many tons . |
| 12 | Spokeseman Robert Mandl , said ‘ Overall it was a good first quarter . |
| 13 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 14 | Reportedly it was a soup-to-nuts A-to-Z kind of thing that ISVs rejected out of hand as offering them nothing . |
| 15 | Consequently it was the huge anti-fascist demonstration that created the major problem of public order . |
| 16 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 17 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 18 | Anyone who has drunk one of the bottles of Fred Leroux 1920 at Le Vigneron in Reims ( in the days when it was an unpretentious little bistro , not the big , brash restaurant it is now ) will know that some wines of Chigny are capable of maturing for great periods of time . |
| 19 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most characteristic British example is that in the civitas capital at Silchester , where it was the second largest building in the town after the forum and was situated close to the south gate . |
| 21 | When he spoke again it was a low persuasive tone . |
| 22 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 23 | With its sombre strength and key strategic position it is easy to appreciate why it was an important royal stronghold for several hundred years . |
| 24 | On the morning of August 24 , 79 AD it was a flourishing Roman town going about its daily business , but within hours it lay suffocated by a 20 ft layer of volcanic waste which would preserve it from robbers and vandals until its excavation in the mid-18th century . |