Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 2 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 3 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 4 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 5 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 6 | He , that is a photo opportunity that Gerry Addams took and it was on the front page of everybody 's newspaper . |
| 7 | But it was the same deep gorge — and it was on the other side of the lake ! |
| 8 | Charles married his second cousin , Blanche , sister of the French king , and it was on the Parisian model that he founded the University of Prague in 1348 . |
| 9 | It was on the playing fields that he had excelled , and had felt most at home , and it was on the playing fields that he now spent the afternoon . |
| 10 | but they were all and it was on the safe side , whatever happened . |
| 11 | As Raynor ( 1969 ) noted , the first use of the term ‘ middle class ’ in Britain was probably in the early years of the nineteenth century ( Raynor quotes the Oxford English Dictionary 's date of 1812 ) , and it was during the nineteenth century that the ‘ middle class ’ developed into an identifiable and vocal , if rather vaguely defined , social collectivity . |
| 12 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 13 | He kept the Wharfedale Inn where most of the cricketers met and it was in the front room of that establishment that the idea was developed . |
| 14 | The northern parts of the empire were , however , under customary laws still , and it was in the Eastern Empire under the Emperor Justinian that most of the advances were made . |
| 15 | And it was in the 1980s that it was finally applied , in particular the ideas contained in two articles by Mr Modigliani and Mr Miller in 1958 and 1963 . |
| 16 | It was in this period , very roughly between 1050 and 1150 , that we can most readily discern the revival of many independent cities ; and it was in the 1150s that the first serious challenge to their independence was mounted by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 17 | And the Royal Welch did sing in the rehearsal , it was a record of course , and they sang of what you could see from the hills above Jerusalem , and it was in the minor key and sad as the devil or death , and the green light flickered , and Dylan , short , bandy , prime , obese , and famous among the bars , screamed as I have never heard , but sometimes imagined a scream , and we were all appalled , our pencils silent above the crossword puzzles , and invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our backs . |
| 18 | Here was the bond : it was the provinces , not London society , which were peopling America and it was in the mushrooming towns of industrial England that Nonconformity was strongest . |
| 19 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |
| 20 | And it was from the top deck , apparently , that she had disappeared . |
| 21 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |
| 22 | All these mouth full of snow , made you feel like , I was wearing , I was wearing er , cos it 's really hot , I was just wearing er er , thermal fleece , and it was like the thermal fleece was actually covered with |
| 23 | And it was like the old , similar to the old Templars that were . |
| 24 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 25 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 26 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 27 | Nobody comforted her , for weeping was not necessary , but it was on the other hand permissible , and when she got home the aunts and uncles were kind to her and offered her cups of tea . |
| 28 | He tried to remove a smudge from the windscreen with the tip of his finger , but it was on the other side of the glass . |
| 29 | Or rather , I had an idea , but it was of the vaguest . |
| 30 | But it was as the great leader in efforts to save the environment and the natural treasures of the world that he will be longest remembered . |