Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , that 's right I think it were the first ones to come out |
| 2 | There were a few obvious English tourists , but even more elderly Italians , and even a few young couples , as if it were the fashionable thing to do . |
| 3 | So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained . |
| 4 | I knew it was the one Henry wanted back . |
| 5 | It was the two shots fired from this hand on that summer morning in the Balkans that ignited the smouldering embers of war in Europe and led to the fire that caused the conflagration that created the holocaust . |
| 6 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 7 | It was the nearest Greg had come , he felt , to the real Walter Machin . |
| 8 | Two runs earlier Sidhu had been dropped by Reiffel in the gully off McDermott : it was the 29th chance dropped by the home side in the series , nine of them off McDermott . |
| 9 | Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car . |
| 10 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 11 | It was fairly erm revolutionary at the time in in the fact it was really adopting a client server approach in network computing , and it was the first way to do that . |
| 12 | It was the first chance to see Diana close up since the long honeymoon and it was like looking at a different woman . |
| 13 | And it was the first public result attributable to the second generation at Pininfarina , Pinin 's son Sergio and his brother-in-law , Renzo Carli . ’ |
| 14 | It was the first play staged at Antwerp 's Bourla Theatre since the inadequacy of the theatre 's defences against fire made it close in 1980 . |
| 15 | It was the first company to set up a coal depot to supply the capital , displacing with railway coal the hitherto pre-eminent ‘ sea coal ’ . |
| 16 | It was the first company to introduce duvets in both the UK and the US . |
| 17 | This flight became another ‘ first ’ for Sugar , as it was the first Lancaster to land on an ‘ enemy ’ airfield ! |
| 18 | It was the first Shrine to go in the Reformation , burned to the ground . |
| 19 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 20 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a very acrimonious meeting , mostly about why we were changing lengths : the merchandisers were saying the customers want this and the designers were fighting their case and , as it was the first collection prepared without Laura present the whole time , it was not surprising that difficulties should surface , ’ Moira explained . |
| 22 | It was the first show to confirm Kenneth Williams as a star . |
| 23 | The case made Scottish legal history as it was the first prosecution brought under the new Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 24 | It was the other man speaking now . |
| 25 | He ranted and raved because he found out years afterwards what it was the other swine had taken . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was the immigrant condition living itself out through them . |
| 27 | My frustration was n't losing the medal , it was not even being able to fight for it , ’ said Mota , who does n't question that it was the correct decision to run . |
| 28 | She said that as though she wondered whether it was the correct thing to say . |
| 29 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 30 | Thérèse respectfully sent the nuns a faire-part , edged in black ; she knew it was the correct thing to do . |