Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at that moment Meredith caught a glimpse of another familiar figure . |
| 2 | Things had changed slightly down there , however ; a new parish , that of Christ Church , Watney Street , had been carved out of the ever-more-populous St George 's , and it was at this recently-dedicated Christ Church that the couple were married on 22 March 1846 . |
| 3 | And what a great day it was for 82-year-old George Mitchell of the Belmont Club . |
| 4 | Baker said in the debate that it was for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to chose the option of peace by withdrawing Iraqi forces . |
| 5 | It was by Blind Lemon Jefferson . |
| 6 | It was in French North Africa that British airborne troops had first been deployed on any scale , and Leslie would have heard of their exploits in seizing airfields and other strategic points in Algeria and Tunisia . |
| 7 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |