Example sentences of "it was [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The membership ban would make sense if it was Labour Party policy to expel Northern Ireland from the UK immediately after coming to power . |
| 2 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 3 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 4 | It was sheer self deception had me conned ! |
| 5 | For an artisan elite it was skilled labour power sold at a premium , but for most men and almost all working women it was unskilled labour . |
| 6 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
| 7 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 8 | Everton 's crisp passing bewildered Tottenham , and it was that fellow Beardsley running the show . |
| 9 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 10 | In his view it was high time ASEAN made a serious study of proclaiming Southeast Asia a nuclear-free zone as a first step towards implementing the zone concept . |
| 11 | In any event , if luck was on her side , and by her reckoning it was high time luck paid her a visit , the garage might well have delivered her car to her hotel by now — or at least have telephoned to say that it was ready for collection . |
| 12 | He will be joined by local MP Michael Fallon and Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb who yesterday said it was high time Labour told the voters what it was going to do about the continuing problems of congestion and accidents on the A1(M) . |
| 13 | This decision upheld an earlier ruling that it was unfair labour practice to exclude skilled black miners , purely on the basis of race , from the pension scheme . |
| 14 | It was pretty bone china sprigged with rosebuds . |