Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her first glimpse of it was through elaborate iron gates set between two large stone pillars surmounted by rampant lions . |
| 2 | It was on this date personnel involved learned that an unidentified aircraft carrier would be anchoring at Greenock where the Spitfires would be loaded on board . |
| 3 | Most of that is presently with your offices and draw up a reports in a moment , it was on special education needs , and so on . |
| 4 | Appropriately , it was of two water colours of the Slipper Chapel and the Priory which had been painted by Tess McNulty , one of our pilgrims . |
| 5 | When I arrived back at B.P. it was to further billeting problems . |
| 6 | It was Taylor 's opinion that their experience had proved that although a considerable quantity of ore remained to be got from the various veins , the expenses of all kinds in the district , remote as it was from other mining fields , prevented fair remuneration for risking capital and exerting their skill . |
| 7 | Yet at the end of the eighties the only government money paid to BR was the rapidly dwindling subsidy paid to Provincial and Network SouthEast sectors to support loss-making services and talk continued of ‘ bustitution ’ , however ridiculed it was by professional transport executives . |
| 8 | Togetherness and self-help in the birth process , followed as a matter of course by breast feeding , is now embraced with less evangelical fervour than it was by Fifties pioneer couples . |