Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Lady Yolande first protested she was unwell from the sea voyage , then it was her time of the month when … ’ |
| 2 | It was their equivalent of the Piper Malibu , but entirely constructed of composites . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps his most popular work , the Turangalîla-symphonie , was a commission from Koussevitzky , fusing his rich and instantly identifiable harmonic language with complex Hindu rhythms : it was his study of the latter that led to his formulation of ‘ total ’ serialism , first seen in his Studies in Rhythm of 1949 . |
| 6 | I would also have to say that it was he behaviour of the galleries which stands out . |