Example sentences of "be [conj] it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
| 2 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 3 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
| 4 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 5 | More to the point was that it was some compensation for the lower salary . |
| 6 | When I was young , all we heard about ozone was that it was bracing sea air . |