Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 2 | It was her first opportunity to have unchallenged leadership . |
| 3 | Doreen , a nineteen-year-old mother of three young children , felt strongly about this after her experiences , and correctly points out that it was her own choice to have her children , and she should be given the same respect as any older mother : |
| 4 | It was her own fight to overcome breast cancer and the deaths of both her parents within six months of each other which prompted Margaret to become a humanist . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
| 6 | Then she smiled , stroking Melanie 's face again , so tenderly that Melanie closed her eyes and imagined it was her own mother caressing her or any mother caressing any child . |
| 7 | It was their first opportunity to treat the murder in detail . |
| 8 | It was their first series win against West Indies in England . |
| 9 | It was their wage-reducing attempts to cut costs which led to Luddism . |
| 10 | The children learned from the example of adults that it was their supreme duty to protect the Royal Family from the degradation of other people 's curiosity . |
| 11 | They said it was their public duty to help . |
| 12 | There was an added incentive this year for the students as it was their last opportunity to catch the eye of Sue Rich , captain and selector of the British Team for the World Student Games which take place later this year . |
| 13 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 14 | It was my unhappy duty to break the news of her son 's death , which she bore with great fortitude . |
| 15 | It was my delicate duty to call on the distraught mother late at night . |
| 16 | This incident was notable only because it was my first seizure made on board a cutter . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I got family and friends to video the match for me because it was my great chance to make a name for myself in front of millions on TV — and I blew it . ’ |
| 18 | The head of the Branch is the Chief Inspector , and it was my good fortune to hold that position from January 1974 until August 1981 . |
| 19 | It was my good fortune to see a lot of Emily Carr and to be counted as a friend , for she claimed she had only a few . |
| 20 | Thomas Sopwith FRS describes what one of the meetings was like : ‘ In the month of September 1856 it was my good fortune to receive an invitation from Dr John Lee . |
| 21 | ‘ When Richard and Martin Sharp were in London it was my natural tendency to get involved with them , ’ says Wilcock . |
| 22 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |
| 23 | It was his first opportunity to use his listening post . |
| 24 | However , she rejected the offer to return without her husband 's remains , insisting that it was his dying wish to receive " a simple soldier 's burial " in his country of origin . |
| 25 | ‘ It was his joyous privilege to lead many to Christ ’ his biography said , and ‘ his passion was to preach . ’ |
| 26 | Earlier he had been officially advised that it was his legal right to have his solicitor present ; but surprisingly Downes had taken no advantage of the offer . |
| 27 | It was his chief aim to restore the nation 's faith in the presidency . |
| 28 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 29 | At the Quarry church , if he attended a choral service , it was his invariable custom to leave during the singing of the last hymn . |
| 30 | It was his fifth penalty miss from 13 attempts since joining Rovers from Real Sociadad in the summer . |