Example sentences of "it was [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | recover the text as it was before the editorial operation began . |
| 2 | No money , no sight : the way it was before the National Health Service came to Wallsend . |
| 3 | And it was but a tiny fraction of the Armageddon that was the front line … |
| 4 | It was but a poor trophy for the day — a flag in exchange for a Regent , and Balliol still at large . |
| 5 | True , it was but a small village , but the fact was maintained that the railway would have to establish their station at that point . |
| 6 | It was but a small step from this to the ‘ social gospel ’ : one started with an application of the Christian Gospel to evils in society and errors in politics . |
| 7 | From there it was but a small step to parliamentary representation : |
| 8 | as if , before he saw it , it was but a pale shadow of itself ; a mere blueprint , uncreated until he saw and re-imagined it . |
| 9 | ‘ It was but a momentary cramp , that 's all . |
| 10 | It was but a short hop from their first rooms in St George 's Square but represented an enormous leap in lifestyle . |
| 11 | It was but a short step from there to the deduction that the woman was the one they had been ordered to look out for , and the guard shouldered the door aside , bounding inwards . |
| 12 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 13 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 14 | Mills , like Marxists , also presented an historical account of the transformation of power in American society to explain how and why it was that a new power elite had developed in the post-war world . |
| 15 | Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world . |
| 16 | And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex . |
| 17 | And so it was that a simple service took place at the parish church . |
| 18 | Thus it was that a caddish cub reporter from the Cricklewood Cricket drew the following response : ‘ A quarter of my age in years multiplied by a fifth of my age in years multiplied by a forty-fifth of my age in years gives my age in years . ’ |
| 19 | I have , in my capacity as Senior Anatomical Pathology Technician , been called upon to collect and look at bones discovered in various places , i.e. sealed behind walls , found in shallow graves , fields , etc. and so it was that a few years ago I became very interested in some questions of osteology . |
| 20 | It was that a significant proportion of the elderly population was an asset to the community if allowed to be economically active , but a burden , both to itself and to society , if forced to retire . |
| 21 | It was that a newly-elected government should consider the facts that every day , the NSPCC 's professionals are working with an average of nearly 2,000 cases , involving some 4,300 children ; that around 120,000 calls were handled by the society in the first year of their new , free 24-hour national child protection line ; and that more children than ever before are getting in touch with the NSPCC . |
| 22 | It was that a Special Forces Depot be formed at Kabrit , to be commanded by a lieutenant-colonel . |
| 23 | If she had learnt anything about life it was that no beneficent creator was in charge . |
| 24 | He had learned also that if there were a continuing nightmare in Israel then it was that an Arab enemy might one day possess the capability to strike at the Jewish heartland with nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | How cruelly ironic it was that the first man to capture her heart and awaken her senses , the man she had waited and longed for , should be metaphorically a ship passing in the night . |
| 26 | She consulted Lessing , accordingly , about what to do with them ; and the end of it was that the long-forgotten link with the law was revived , and young Paul was placed like his father on an office stool . |
| 27 | As their Lordships understand their reasoning , it was that the two sales were not legally interdependent and that there was no evidence to support the judge 's finding that the Perots had a special interest in buying the two adjoining properties . |
| 28 | I think our crucial criticism of the whole press release was that the , it was that the good news , if you like , that the council were doing something pro-active about food poisoning came secondary , was a secondary issue in the press release , the main , the main thing was the bad news , and it could have been turned round . |
| 29 | It was that the Rural Areas Committee should have executive control over the appointment of tutors for classes and courses and thus , of course , approval of the syllabuses . |
| 30 | Writing in 1932 the English critic Bryher asked why it was that the real virtues and strengths and diversity of America had never been conveyed in the movies sent across the Atlantic . |