Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and also you know when Janet 's doing a stint because you can see if Barbara 's smokes well me and Jenny had a do that week and then you , it were my birthday on the Wednesday were n't it ? |
| 2 | Unfortunate that it was her turn for the floor . |
| 3 | It was her way with the pithy and quotable phrase that drew media attention to her work on the London catwalks in the early Eighties , a knack she called on again in her last collection , studding ‘ Clean Up Or Die ’ on to the backs of leather biker jackets . |
| 4 | For those reasons , I would declare that it was within the power of the single justice ; indeed , it was her duty on the Friday to complete the proceeding under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 , and that it was unlawful for her to adjourn the matter to the following Monday , she having no power to do so , and that the decision of the justices on the Monday was correct . |
| 5 | Although only the vestiges of her original Pomfret Lodge lie behind this Regency update , it was her obsession with the Gothic that lingered on and produced this pale pink confection . |
| 6 | According to Pacepa , it was her obsession with the scurrilous anonymous letters sent to RFE that led to the establishment of the national handwriting archive , as well as the decree requiring all typewriters to be registered with the authorities and a regular sample of the typeface to be provided . |
| 7 | It was her habit after the lecture on the theory of economics , which she found particularly intractable as a subject , to take her notes ( she was a sparse but efficient notetaker ) to a quiet table by the window , drink some coffee and study what she had written down . |
| 8 | ‘ The Lady Yolande first protested she was unwell from the sea voyage , then it was her time of the month when … ’ |
| 9 | It was their equivalent of the Piper Malibu , but entirely constructed of composites . |
| 10 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 11 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 12 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 13 | Opposition to the project became the focus of the resistance to the Communist government and Hungarian Greens claim that it was their mobilisation of the country against the state on this particular issue which led to the regime 's downfall . |
| 14 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 15 | It 's not a view that I particularly share but erm it was their view at the time . |
| 16 | The group issued a statement which said that in view of the adverse publicity accorded to a vocal minority they felt that it was their duty in the interests of democracy and employment in the area to state that there is a silent majority in favour of the proposed Raybestos development . |
| 17 | It was their absence from the building of the later Grand Trunk line which was alleged to have made its construction much less speedy . |
| 18 | Although the quality of diamonds which most immediately strikes the modern imagination is their capacity to command attention as symbols of majesty or affluence by reason of their fire and lustre , it was their quality as the hardest substance on earth that first engaged attention . |
| 19 | DEC also subcontracted the London-based software house Transvik Ltd which had previously developed the software for the Nordex exchange in the City of London ; it was its foundation on the pound sterling that caused the failure of the bond transaction , but contrary to local press reports , the system did not crash and an update to overcome the problem should be in place in a few weeks time . |
| 20 | It was your dad with the wig on |
| 21 | It was my turn for the telescope . |
| 22 | It was my contribution to The Roman Villa in Britaini and optimistically entitled ‘ The Future of Villa Studies ’ . |
| 23 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 24 | I dreamed ( or daydreamed ) that it was my father in the tent , sick , and then that my whole family were there again , in the house . |
| 25 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 26 | Although Langley inherited some property and acquired other estates through marriage , it was his service to the Crown which raised his family 's fortunes . |
| 27 | When he heard about Bonanza parking the Fraser girl on ice out in the country he must have figured it was his chance for the big killing . |
| 28 | Lee has worked with Universal before , teaming up with them for Do The Right Thing , Mo ’ Better Blues and Jungle Fever , and it was his experience with the company that has encouraged him to sign his life over to The Man . |
| 29 | So it was his word against the company . |
| 30 | Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement . |