Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 2 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 3 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 4 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 5 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 6 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 7 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 8 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |