Example sentences of "and it was the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 2 | Nigel Williamson also recalled an afternoon in a Darlington hotel during the 1987 campaign when the Kinnock circus had hit town early and it was the Financial Times man 's birthday . |
| 3 | In the eighteenth century this undifferentiated mass nobility had tended to contract , and it was the lower ranges of this class who , as ennobled civil servants , collected to themselves the influence lost by the great court aristocracy . |
| 4 | This was , this is what I call an optimistic view , and this was Rousseau 's view of human nature , that basically people were good , and er , cooperative , and it was the bad things in human nature that had to be explained , not the good . |
| 5 | The De La Salle rearguard looked less disciplined , and it was the free kicks they conceded in the first-half which proved their downfall . |