Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 2 | My brother reckons it was Beeney 's fault for not coming off his line but I reckon it was the two centre halfs again . |
| 3 | Yeah it was the two training aspects that came out of that meeting one was |
| 4 | It is suggested that it was the great grain stores of the early Egyptian civilization that attracted the local wild cats . |
| 5 | ‘ Before that it was the great cup years of the early fifties but it 's all too long ago . |
| 6 | It was the second time witnesses had failed to turn up for Tapping 's trial . |
| 7 | For the 87 year old , it was the second time thieves have raided her home . |
| 8 | It was the third time proposals to introduce VAT had been turned down . |
| 9 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |