Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [was/were] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the later Saxon period it was the royal estates , particularly the caputs , which developed exchange networks , especially when towns were developed . |
| 2 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 3 | On this occasion it was the well-known communications specialist from New Zealand , Mr William Templeton-Brown . |
| 4 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 6 | 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 . |