Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ten-thirty and the wedding was fixed for an hour 's time . |
| 2 | When she woke , it was late and the sun was coming in through the greasy , grey window . |
| 3 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 4 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
| 5 | It was dusty and the spine was broken , but at least it was in English . |
| 6 | It was pitch-dark and the house was very quiet when the first effects of the treatment woke him . |
| 7 | It was 1987 and the State of Emergency in South Africa was strangling the black opposition . |
| 8 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 9 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 10 | Much later , when it was dark and the yard was quieter at last , the door from the hall opened , and then her own , and Thorfinn came in . |
| 11 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 12 | Soon it was dark and the Christmas evening was in full swing . |
| 13 | It was dark and the car was buffeted by the wind ; the headlights were scarcely reflected from the black road surface or from the moorland turf on either side . |
| 14 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 15 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 16 | Well , seventy-five per cent of me knew it was real and the rest of me , well , silly though it sounds , I almost believed in the horsy hobgoblins . ’ |
| 17 | But it was short-lived and the State soon sought once again to enforce ‘ homogeneity ’ . |
| 18 | It was warm and the track is fast . |
| 19 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 20 | Formally , it was parliamentary and the approval of the Supreme Soviet was needed for all significant laws and appointments . |
| 21 | Although it was cold and the air was running out , she was burning up . |
| 22 | It was cold and the man 's dogs lay down to rest and stay warm . |
| 23 | It was cold and the Estuary was no longer sparkling blue : it was an opaque , sullen grey . |
| 24 | It was cold , it was cold and the roof was made of bones . |
| 25 | There was a yard behind the shop with an entry off the street ; it was cobbled and the stable was where a delivery pony had once been kept . |
| 26 | After a long struggle , Mexico finally refused to pay : it was 1982 and the country had an 80-billion-dollar debt . |
| 27 | The place was run down , but Jane decided on it because it was beautiful and a bargain . |
| 28 | Its shares fell 2p to 55p But it was Scottish and the rest of the takeover in-crowd , with new time buyers active , which dominated the day 's trading . |
| 29 | This sudden increase had been very difficult to manage because it was unexpected and the team wanted to analyse these new demands on its investigative service . |
| 30 | It was undemocratic and the Government were not telling the truth when they said that they would look at all the submissions in a fair and honest manner . |