Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Westminster Bank has bought the freehold of its premises in Whitby Road , Ellesmere Port , where it was previously a tenant on the ground floor . |
| 2 | It was also recognised that there were patients whose language disorder affected only the processing of written language ( reading and writing ) and others where it was only the processing of spoken language that was impaired . |
| 3 | ‘ Or it was just the wiring . |
| 4 | ‘ Although it was partly an ego thing , I can see that Simon probably did love me — in his way . ’ |
| 5 | " Oral " was often used by the writers of a scheme interchangeably with " mental " to refer to a test which required pupils to work out answers mentally although it was normally the teacher who performed the oral task of reading out the questions ; the pupil 's task being aural and written . |
| 6 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |
| 7 | And although it was always the hope that the county would continue to fund the project , and that every secondary school would eventually receive a grant of one sort or another , uncertainty meant that no guarantee could be given to disappointed schools as to their inclusion in a subsequent wave . |
| 8 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 9 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly trade union responsibility was the key factor in the equation of obligations in the News International ban , although it was more a case of loyalty to trade unionism , and loyalty to fellow trade unionists . |
| 11 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 12 | He was coaxing me to walk a bit further without having to carry me , by promising that it was just a bit further . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose the newspaper which started it would say that it was just a bit of fun . |
| 14 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
| 15 | So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend . |
| 16 | Mr Sisulu said that it was just a draft plan , which had not been adopted . |
| 17 | Equally , the Iranian operation could not be explained because , in its respectable long-term aims , it was complicated ; and most people would doubtless insist , as they did , that it was just a piece of barter . |
| 18 | After the fiasco in Prague I began to wonder whether there was any point in my running in any more relay teams , began to think that it was just a waste of everyone 's time . |
| 19 | Recalled Kenny : ‘ Before a previous Scotland-England game , one of our coaches , Jim Telfer , stepped in with a reminder to everybody that it was just a game of rugby we were going out to play and that we all had responsibilities . |
| 20 | Then it went straight up so fast that it was just a blur and jerked to a halt high over the crowd . |
| 21 | Now Councillor thinks that it was just an accident and people will understand . |
| 22 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
| 23 | that it was just the liver . |
| 24 | He 'd thought that it was just the calendar which had been turned to the correct month , but something else had been changed too . |
| 25 | Thomas said that the two women were very suggestible , that it was just the wind and that the claw marks were certainly many centuries old . |
| 26 | The Minister said that all of the activities of the civil rights movement had indicated that it was predominantly a Republican body , and activities in Derry did not disprove that . |
| 27 | They held that it was both the manager and the owners . |
| 28 | Ace was so much part of her unacknowledged dreams that it was barely a shock therefore to find herself pulled up and into his strong arms . |
| 29 | So much had happened that it seemed incredible that it was barely a week since she 'd crossed the bridge in the opposite direction . |
| 30 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |