Example sentences of "[subord] it [was/were] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Westminster Bank has bought the freehold of its premises in Whitby Road , Ellesmere Port , where it was previously a tenant on the ground floor . |
| 2 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |
| 3 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 4 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly trade union responsibility was the key factor in the equation of obligations in the News International ban , although it was more a case of loyalty to trade unionism , and loyalty to fellow trade unionists . |
| 6 | Honey was sweet and gentle from the day she was born , so it was rather a surprise when she came home from the horse breaker with a completely changed personality . |
| 7 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 8 | ‘ So it was just a front ? ’ |
| 9 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 10 | Their father died when George was three years old , and the strongest influence on him , until she died when he was thirty-four , was his mother Magdalene , the patroness of John Donne , who wrote a well-known poem to her : Donne , in preaching her funeral sermon , described how , ‘ as her house was a court in the conversation of the best and an almshouse in feeding the poore , so it was also a hospital in ministering relief to the sick . |
| 11 | This also looks like anticipation of the ch , so it was probably a slip rather than a misspelling . |
| 12 | A lot of them brought bacon and eggs but you had to cook it and they had to leave the pans and things clean when they left — so it was always a rush job and all policemen suffered from bad stomachs . |
| 13 | You know , if it was a dog that was lost , if it was a cat that was lost , if it was even a pigeon that had got lost they 've got some homing device , but the sheep has n't even got that , it ca n't even find it 's own way home . |
| 14 | If it was just a question of effort , the pit would be in no danger . ’ |
| 15 | I wondered if she really felt strongly about this or if it was just a habit to sound as if she did . |
| 16 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 17 | She had to be giving something , he knew , if it was only a word . |
| 18 | ‘ It does seem a bit extreme , ’ Doyle agreed , ‘ but if it was only a rumour I would n't be here . |
| 19 | Even if it was only a car driver 's license . |
| 20 | She seemed to accept without question that Alexandra was the one who would handle the crisis , if it was still a crisis by the time she got into the office . |
| 21 | It makes me wonder just how long it 's been going on , or if it was merely a way to get Calder out of an awkward situation . ’ |
| 22 | The question has to be asked , however , if this was due to the activities of the ECSC or if it was merely a consequence of the sustained economic boom which affected the whole of Western Europe . |
| 23 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 24 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 25 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 26 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 27 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 28 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 29 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 30 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |