Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |
| 3 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 4 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 5 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 6 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |