Example sentences of "it [was/were] [art] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 2 | It was no good dwelling on it . |
| 3 | It was a young girl on a bicycle , the feeling of movement captured easily . |
| 4 | I pointed out that it was a joint statement on behalf of Dr. Paisley and myself and that he was the best-known Ulster MP at Westminster and leader of a major Ulster party . |
| 5 | It was a general question on the operations of the army in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | ‘ With Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers , I think it was a love-hate thing on the set . |
| 7 | The bed was at the far end and next to it was a small cabinet on which stood a lamp and a telephone … the telephone through which the dying , terrified Angy had tried to summon help . |
| 8 | It was a recent experiment on the part of the PM — to create a new ministry to oversee the security services . |
| 9 | It was a spacious room on the second floor of the house overlooking the garden . |
| 10 | It was a real yo-yo on the tee . |
| 11 | MANY musical celebrities visit Newcastle but it was a red-letter day on Wednesday , when the Tyne Theatre and Opera House was sold out for Joan Sutherland 's first appearance in the city . |
| 12 | It also received the name-plates Star of the East during its repaint. 47401 also carried North Eastern plates between December 1981 and May 1988 when it was a regular performer on Trans-Pennine duties between Newcastle and Liverpool being shedded at Gateshead . |
| 13 | It was a good night on Saturday night , Leigh ? |
| 14 | It was a good note on which to end . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that Bill was in his mid-fifties and had a chronic heart condition , which meant he could only play for a maximum of five minutes a match , it was a good move on Fred 's part as the pub owned the cricket pitch at the rear and naturally , as captain , Bill felt obliged to hand it over to the club , and so ‘ The Tip ’ was born . |
| 16 | Baghdad at last , and a short trip to Hinaidi — the large RAF base and home to No 70 Squadron , It was a great event on the squadron when the boat arrived ; in fact it was the greatest event of the year , save Christmas . |
| 17 | His client was not a bad man but he was simple and it was a sad reflection on society that because of his affliction he was picked on . |
| 18 | His client was not a bad man but he was simple and it was a sad reflection on society that because of his affliction he was picked on . |
| 19 | Langbaurgh mayor Brenda Forster told the planning committee that it was a sad reflection on society that the roller shutters had to be used but at least they could be a little more colourful . |
| 20 | It was a new slant on the eternal problem of the one who kisses and the one who is kissed . |
| 21 | Formerly it was a watery barrier on the journey along the west coast , and the key to its crossing was the small car ferry at Stromeferry , a source of long delays and frustration , but the ferry was abandoned when a new road was constructed along the south-east shore of the loch . |
| 22 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
| 23 | It was a multi-pronged attack on the Palestinians in Lebanon . |
| 24 | For the time being it was a one-bedroomed apartment on the sixth floor of the Haifa Street Housing Project . |
| 25 | It was a damning report on America 's VD service by her international peers and colleagues , many of whom , it might be added , had little better to offer back in their own countries . |
| 26 | It was a crooked line on an unstretched piece of canvas , drawn , partially erased and then redrawn , which evolved for Rothenberg , into the silhouette of a horse , an encasement for human presence , a grid which would eventually be , in slaughterhouse terms , drawn and quartered . |
| 27 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said : ‘ It was a vicious attack on a young girl . |
| 28 | ‘ At the time perhaps it was a creative influence on our music , but all I ended up with was a jaw that continually hurt me . |
| 29 | ‘ At the time perhaps it was a creative influence on our music , but all I ended up with was a jaw that continually hurt me . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a little pyschology on my part , but I am not that clever . |