Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon it were visible the prints of many different thoughts , and some conflict . |
| 2 | ‘ It were half a bottle of Evian , 12 grapes , a piece of cheese and a small tomato . |
| 3 | By the time of local elections , it was apparent the SDP of ‘ claret and chips ’ mould-breaking fame at the time of the Limehouse Declaration in 1981 was disintegrating . |
| 4 | The flat string of squares flickered slightly just sufficiently to show it was a projection , nothing real ; but although it was apparent the line of squares itself was merely an image , on its surface sat seemingly real and solid wooden chess pieces made from black and white wood , and set on that strange line like tiny isolated guard towers on a chequered frontier wall . |
| 5 | It was all a kind of madness , and Waugh did indeed go mad in the mid-1950s . |
| 6 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 7 | It was all a question of balance . |
| 8 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 9 | I thought nothing of it ; it was all a part of the selection process and the more extreme it proved itself to be , the happier I felt , for I was enjoying the feeling of succeeding and managing while others failed . |
| 10 | It was all a part of his arrogant manner , but once more Robbie felt that unaccountable weakness invade her bones . |
| 11 | It was all a mistake of course . |
| 12 | And it was all a mistake about his being missing because he was there now , at the perimeter fence , smiling his lovely smile , saying ‘ Hullo , Jenny . ’ |
| 13 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 14 | It did n't seem too distressed by life in the aviary with the other birds , although I imagine it was all a bit of a come-down for this once proud and merciless hunter of the skies . |
| 15 | And there was a suspicion in Britain that it was all a bit of a plot to er to kind of isolate Turkey . |
| 16 | It was all a bit of a shock . ’ |
| 17 | Yet at least it was all a bit of a relief , was n't it ? |
| 18 | It was all a bit of a blur that night . |
| 19 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was all a bit of a shock . |
| 20 | It was all a bit beyond him — and what concern was it of his ! |
| 21 | It was all a deception by the Form Manipulator . |
| 22 | Just before the verdict was announced he told Central South that he never attempted to gas his wife — and that it was all a plot by her to ruin his life . |
| 23 | In earlier years , is it true that you attended a Senior Management Seminar as a representative of the International Sports Company , ( Dunlop , Slazenger , Carlton , Litesome ) , and stated that you had the two finest wooden rackets in the world and that you had no intention of following the fibreglass and graphite racket trend as it was all a flash in the pan ? |
| 24 | ‘ So it was all a waste of time , ’ she ended brightly . |
| 25 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 26 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 27 | It was all a flashback to his own childhood and to his father , Trent thought as he looked across at Mariana . |
| 28 | Eliot was well aware it was all a business of transmission and reinterpretation of past interpretations as he shows in writing that ‘ Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum . ’ |
| 29 | It was all a fuss about nothing , another example of the national genius for weaving intricate variations around the simplest event . |
| 30 | It was all a gesture towards Edward Plantagenet likewise . |