Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That seemed pretty profound , till I found another cinema where it was all violence , sex-and-violence , and violence . |
| 2 | ‘ He must tell the judiciary that it was this accountant Morris who abused the trust the firm showed in him . ’ |
| 3 | At first she had thought with a shock of fear that it was old age , that old age was like silicon , water-soluble , it flowed into you and as you dried out , it hardened , recasting you in blurred shapes and muted tones . |
| 4 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 5 | ‘ But they were a small club and it was hard work . |
| 6 | Four years later , however , a science programme on Australian radio accused McBride of scientific fraud and it was this accusation that eventually led local health authorities in New South Wales to begin the medical tribunal proceedings . |
| 7 | He was taking an unholy delight in her discomfiture and it was high time that he was taken down a peg . |
| 8 | Peel was undoubtedly their biggest fan but it was another Radio One DJ , Andy Kershaw , who gave them their first session as 1985 drew to a close . |
| 9 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 10 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 11 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |
| 12 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 13 | Clearly many staff had found the self-appraisal to be a valuable exercise and it was such staff , it seems , that were most positive about the process as a whole and who were most willing to take seriously the advisers ' recommendations . |
| 14 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 15 | ‘ Interest ’ , complained a reforming chaplain , was the only stimulant in the new philosophy and it was this philosophy that inspired nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 16 | It was only a split second but it was all Donna needed . |
| 17 | I found that love went out the window when it was sweaty socks and handkerchiefs and dirty nappies and all this in front of me and I thought well this is not romance this is bloody hard work . |
| 18 | Why was the Lotus issue put into this mo this year 's training plan when it was last year 's money ? |
| 19 | No I had a a chap at the door at half past four this afternoon and it was this woman for the British Market Research Bureau er |
| 20 | But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid ! |
| 21 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |
| 22 | Hyndman drew the pessimistic conclusion that it was British power , rather than any kind of pacifism , which held the key to peace . |
| 23 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 24 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 25 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 26 | I strained to hear if it was a record but it was that tune , broken in his usual stumbling places . |
| 27 | You did your business but it was great fun at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | This study will , therefore , concentrate on the first wave of evacuation during the ‘ phoney war ’ period because it was this stage that caused most controversy . |
| 29 | The play revolves around Brose , a harebrained nonentity machine-operator , who runs a boiler room of a semi-automated antiseptic dye factory , having taken the job because it was easy work and non-union , and who manages to annoy everybody except his fiancée . |
| 30 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |