Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Amitha : It was the Equal Opportunities Policy which cut through all the contradictions .
2 The basin went round again , and this time it was the laughing women guests who were contributing , with squeals of mock protest , urging Marie-Christine to lower her skirt again .
3 Coffin was the other police officer who saw them .
4 All that was available to claimants was the Supplementary Benefits Handbook which set out the broad basis upon which the SBC exercised its discretion .
5 It was the seven shillings wages I was worried about , but I used to give that to me mother .
6 It was the Seven Years War which broke up completely and decisively the old system of balance four decades later .
7 It is interesting to note that included in the government-funded School Curriculum Development Committee 's Arts in Schools project ( 1986 ) there was an equal opportunities section which clearly recognized the need to take this issue seriously .
8 Neddy was an old Dales character who played the harmonium and who found an old bell one day which he placed on top of his harmonium because he liked the sound of it .
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