Example sentences of "it was [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 2 | It was at the 9th hole in the second round of the World Championship of Women 's Golf that this recently acquired touch of caution came into its own . |
| 3 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 4 | I thought it was at the tenth anniversary , every five years after that , I did n't realise that came into , John said it was . |
| 5 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 6 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 7 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 8 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 9 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 10 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 11 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 12 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 13 | It was on the first tape . |
| 14 | It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place . |
| 15 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 16 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 17 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 18 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 19 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 20 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 21 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 22 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 23 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 24 | It was during the fifth week — Christmas and the New Year having passed with little to celebrate — that Charlie was put in charge of the duty roster for his own section . |
| 25 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 28 | It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place . |
| 29 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 30 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |