Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were on the very fringe of his area he might not be back until lunch-time . |
| 2 | Claudia said , trying to sound as if it were of no real interest to her . |
| 3 | Liquid products for manual use : This is calculated by standardising arithmetically the price to achieve a true cost which represents the price the product would be if it were at a standard concentration of 30 per cent . |
| 4 | I beg your pardon I beg your pardon twelve , these two things were separate you know one could be added to the other in looking an as it were at the total employment requirement . |
| 5 | And how did you actually , I mean , did you do all this er er er , as it were in an amateur way or did you do through any kind of profe , wi with the help of doctors or |
| 6 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
| 7 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 8 | Another investigation , looking at the problem as it were from the opposite direction , compared adoptees selected for later estimates of their creativity and then examined incidences of mental illness . |
| 9 | Though promotion from one class to another was possible , it was across a wide gulf as the distinction between classes was held to be the distinction between mechanical and intellectual activity . |
| 10 | But it was as a young cricketer , distinctive even then with his fair complexion and blond hair ( hence ‘ Ghost ’ , years later ) , that he particularly impressed his games master , John Kitson . |
| 11 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 12 | Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential . |
| 13 | It has been shown above that , on the basis of the careers of a number of Muftis in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , one might tentatively conclude that by that time it was as a practical matter desirable , if not absolutely necessary , to have taught on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn in order to have a chance to attain the highest office in the learned profession . |
| 14 | In many ways the consulting arm of GROVE PROJECTS is stronger as a specialist engineering and surveying consultancy than it was as a multi-discipline practice . |
| 15 | It was as an innovative designer of letter forms ( Gill sans , Perpetua ) scribe and letter cutter in stone that his genius lay , nurtured in the traditions of the Arts and Crafts Movement . |
| 16 | But it was as the great leader in efforts to save the environment and the natural treasures of the world that he will be longest remembered . |
| 17 | It was about a young honeymoon couple , Frank and Betty Spencer . |
| 18 | The plot had a topical theme ; it was about a corrupt dictator who had been exiled from his Latin American country . |
| 19 | It was called Are We Nearly There ? and it was about a little boy who was on a journey with his father . |
| 20 | It was about a little girl . |
| 21 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 22 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 23 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 24 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 25 | It was about the only piece of hearts and minds they did . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose it was about the overdue ship . ’ |
| 27 | Banfield journeyed to the hinterland of southern Italy to try to find out what it was about the original culture of Italian immigrants that so retarded their sociological development . |
| 28 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 29 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 30 | I remember reading this book it was partly , it was about the German Navy |