Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 3 | Amitha : It was the Equal Opportunities Policy which cut through all the contradictions . |
| 4 | The basin went round again , and this time it was the laughing women guests who were contributing , with squeals of mock protest , urging Marie-Christine to lower her skirt again . |
| 5 | Nigel Williamson also recalled an afternoon in a Darlington hotel during the 1987 campaign when the Kinnock circus had hit town early and it was the Financial Times man 's birthday . |
| 6 | It was the perpetual clergy inquiry . |
| 7 | It 's not the local press , it was n't the dinner , it was the dirty jokes session in the bar afterwards . |
| 8 | It was the seven shillings wages I was worried about , but I used to give that to me mother . |
| 9 | It was the Seven Years War which broke up completely and decisively the old system of balance four decades later . |
| 10 | On this occasion it was the well-known communications specialist from New Zealand , Mr William Templeton-Brown . |