Example sentences of "[noun sg] it was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 2 | And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression . |
| 3 | In the Store it was considered bad manners , while Outside … well , there were so many other things that killed nomes in any case . |
| 4 | Not only were there numerous deep recessions , but by the end of the century it was discovered foreign iron ore was of a higher quality , and although the MSG works did smelt imports from Spain , Russia and Chile , it was furnaces in ports that could do the cheapest . |
| 5 | On Aug. 13 the Soviet Union responded coolly to Saddam 's " peace initiative " of the previous day , and on Aug. 17 Shevardnadze said in Moscow after talks with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the Security Council could soon assume a military role which could bring a rapid resolution of the crisis ; the Security Council Military Staff Committee , he said , was the body whose task it was to co-ordinate military measures . |