Example sentences of "it was [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was between the wars in 1933 that Gavin Morton became sole partner . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't have thought it was beyond the realms of possibility . ’ |
| 3 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 4 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 5 | This time it was at the hands of Grimsby Town . |
| 6 | It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly , childless couple . |
| 7 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 8 | ‘ It was on the cards for ages , so it was really only a question of making it official , ’ he explained . |
| 9 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 10 | The press-book heralded Black Legion as the ‘ Truest To Life Film Ever Made ’ and if this claim was meant to refer to the actual Detroit trial it was to the settings of the film that the most audiences would have applied it . |
| 11 | The occasion for the controversy was the foundation of a central agency to produce goods for sale by Co-operative stores ; and it was to the workers in the agency 's factories that the question related . |
| 12 | It was during the floods in 1984 when lots of people lost their crops and there was no work for them . |
| 13 | The British Tommy 's good humour will be appreciated by the Burman of today as it was during the days of the Rangoon riots in 1939 . |
| 14 | It was under the auspices of arch that the conference to discuss how best to repair Croatia 's war damage was held in Zagreb last December . |
| 15 | It was at Brives-la-Gaillarde that he was elevated to the kingship , and it was from the cities of Aquitaine that he received the oaths of loyalty , which most kings must have taken by proxy . |
| 16 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 17 | Its voluntaristic side , influenced as it was by the ideas of G. H. Mead , had more affinity with the analyses of the acquisition of motives , techniques , and so on , that were to characterise the ‘ symbolic interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s . |
| 18 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 19 | He knew it was in the interests of the City that the Tories win the next election . |
| 20 | It was in the interests of the men , of capital and the state that the institution of the family and the division of labour within it should continue . |
| 21 | It could therefore be argued that it was in the interests of the Soviet Union to see the Korean peninsula in the hands of a friendly regime and American-Japanese interests pushed out of the Asian continent . |
| 22 | That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement . |
| 23 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 24 | He asked her why , and she said it was in the interests of the company . |
| 25 | Secondly , it was in the interests of factory owners and investors that they should participate , for it was of little use to produce increasing quantities of goods if the mass of the population could not afford to buy them . |
| 26 | That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement . |
| 27 | And in this case you would not agree to statement being written , say being read out , you would n't require him to be present , and it could not be introduced under section twenty four because the court would find that it was in the interests of ju justice that it does n't . |
| 28 | It was in the interests of fair mindedness . |
| 29 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 30 | It was in the years between the First and Second World Wars that this enthusiasm was at its height . |