Example sentences of "it was [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head saw a possible solution in a more flexible points allocation for ancillary assistance than that which was LEA policy , but recognised that it was principally a matter of lack of finance . |
| 2 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 3 | ‘ Richards got the tackle on Bunce and it was either a penalty for us , or a scrum with a turnover to the Lions . |
| 4 | We are not quite sure who sold the business to XY Ltd as a going concern — presumably it was either a receiver of AB Ltd or AB 's directors prior to liquidation . |
| 5 | It was thus a revolution in British fiscal policy which Chamberlain advocated in the name of Empire ; and from his Birmingham speech in May 1903 until he was struck down three years later his advocacy of tariff reform and his Imperial theme dominated British policies . |
| 6 | It was thus a stage towards the releasing of vassals from the oaths of loyalty and obedience . |
| 7 | It was thus a boon to the cause that one of its earliest recruits was T.E . |
| 8 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 9 | It was equally a battle over the new technology , as well as over the future of book printing in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | It was self-consciously a reversal of the Versailles policy , after the first world war , of exacting war reparations from the defeated . |
| 11 | It was both a defence of translation of the Bible and an assertion of the loyalty of the Reformers to the state . |
| 12 | It was rather a kind of oligarchy , with a strong hereditary element in its composition . |
| 13 | It was rather a struggle between housing classes for access to the central scarce resource , namely suburban housing . |
| 14 | It was rather a façade behind which classes and individuals with a vested interest in weak and decentralized government could entrench themselves , and also a mere mechanical adherence to established practices and institutions . |
| 15 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 16 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 17 | So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers ' land . |
| 18 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 19 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 20 | But it was over a year before the enormous propaganda potential of such a formation dawned upon the reluctant French authorities . |
| 21 | It was clearly a case of arson , but the motive was puzzling at first . |
| 22 | It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler . |
| 23 | It was altogether a history of successful preservation of traditional political , social and cultural values by a conservative elite against all odds ; even Caesar 's move to punish Massalia , as the ally of Pompey , did not spell disaster . |
| 24 | From Aalborg it was largely a matter of following the setting sun , which had broken from its cloud cover even before the flier had reached his chosen height . |
| 25 | Compared with Freud 's , Frazer 's work was ‘ of perhaps greater permanence , , because for Eliot it was neither a collection of data nor a theory . |
| 26 | By the time Melissa reached the house , it was nearly a quarter past five . |
| 27 | It was nearly a mile of steep climbing , he knew , before he would emerge on to the open heathland where The Drover 's Arms stood . |
| 28 | On most Western battlefields , it was normally a matter of an hour or two . |
| 29 | The contracting industry of the 1950s had not nurtured new talent or new ideas , as happened in the 1930s and 1940s , so that , apart from the Free Cinema directors , it was mostly a case of the same old people trying to make films . |
| 30 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |