Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 2 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 3 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 4 | It was all people talked about everywhere . |
| 5 | It was one option chosen by Tony Crosland and his advisers from 1965 . |
| 6 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 7 | This was their first public engagement this season but it was small beer compared to this coming Saturday . |
| 8 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 9 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |
| 10 | I like to think we achieved a good deal , though it was humble stuff compared to the Kat-Zet . |
| 11 | Although all fittings and furniture had been removed it was Ritzy accommodation compared to a mobile incident van or the decayed huts and barn-like halls to which they were accustomed . |