Example sentences of "it [was/were] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 2 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | Here , you 'll get an authentic taste of life as it was in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . |
| 4 | It was in the final seconds that Morris hurried a clearing kick to touch which fell tantalisingly short . |
| 5 | Well no I thought we agreed that if it was in the southern boundaries , the locations it does n't matter what were |
| 6 | But it was in the market-garden economies of the coast , stimulated by the demands of Barcelona , that the transformation was most intense . |
| 7 | Ironically , it was in the two countries , France and West Germany , which Schuman had seen as the hub of his scheme that the most vocal opposition was expressed . |
| 8 | Yeah a big , big black one well it looked black in it was in the early hours of this morning , you know , when the birds start flying about . |
| 9 | This may very well have to be the hallmark of the future church in modernity , just as it was in the early days of Christian existence . |
| 10 | At one point he indicated that it was in the best interests of the investigation . |
| 11 | ‘ At the time the [ father ] made his application to the court the local authority had decided that it was in the best interests of the children that they be placed with long-term foster parents . |
| 12 | So after very careful consideration and discussion , I and my Board colleagues decided that it was in the best interests of AEA and its employees to go ahead now . |
| 13 | The directors confirm that the power would only be used if the board was satisfied it was in the best interests of shareholders and would result in an increase in expected earnings per share . |
| 14 | ‘ They decided that it was in the best interests of the BBC and its future that John Birt should remain as director general , and gave him their full support . ’ |
| 15 | They decided that it was in the best interests of the BBC and its future that John Birt should remain as director general , and gave him their full support . ’ |
| 16 | I may not agree with many parts of his speech , but it was in the finest traditions of the House . |
| 17 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 18 | It was in the same colours as the bunting , red , white and blue . |
| 19 | The Industrial Revolution had , of course , begun some twenty years before Jane Austen 's birth , at a time when the Rule of Taste had established an unquestioned supremacy ; but it was in the twenty years following her death in 1817 that it really began to change the face of England . |
| 20 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 21 | Here was the bond : it was the provinces , not London society , which were peopling America and it was in the mushrooming towns of industrial England that Nonconformity was strongest . |
| 22 | It was in the later days that you gradually got the the buses were then fitted with these , these safes , they 've got the safes on the ticket machines on the buses , whereby every man 's cash working on that bus that day went into a vault on the bus . |