Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 2 | It was about all a nome had to look at , most of the time . |
| 3 | When he answered it , it was with half a mouth . |
| 4 | He thought he could remember that he and Peter had fastened their rope to a spur or spike of rock and accordingly it was for such a feature that he searched . |
| 5 | It was into such a landscape that a foreign alien culture stepped in AD 43 when Claudius decided to send the Roman army into Britain . |
| 6 | The theology of the group was sufficiently united by the fact that , amid a secular intelligentsia , it was after all a theology . |
| 7 | It was in such a mood , then , that I proceeded here to Salisbury . |
| 8 | It was in such a state of mind , suffering from malaria in the Moluccas , that Wallace had his vision . |
| 9 | It was in such a state ! |
| 10 | v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition . |
| 11 | It was within such a milieu that Christians were faced with the task of defining their identity . |
| 12 | It was against such a background of innovation that the Plowden Committee began its enquiry into the state of primary schools in England and Wales . |