Example sentences of "it was [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though promotion from one class to another was possible , it was across a wide gulf as the distinction between classes was held to be the distinction between mechanical and intellectual activity . |
| 2 | But it was as a young cricketer , distinctive even then with his fair complexion and blond hair ( hence ‘ Ghost ’ , years later ) , that he particularly impressed his games master , John Kitson . |
| 3 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 4 | Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential . |
| 5 | It has been shown above that , on the basis of the careers of a number of Muftis in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , one might tentatively conclude that by that time it was as a practical matter desirable , if not absolutely necessary , to have taught on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn in order to have a chance to attain the highest office in the learned profession . |
| 6 | In many ways the consulting arm of GROVE PROJECTS is stronger as a specialist engineering and surveying consultancy than it was as a multi-discipline practice . |
| 7 | It was as an innovative designer of letter forms ( Gill sans , Perpetua ) scribe and letter cutter in stone that his genius lay , nurtured in the traditions of the Arts and Crafts Movement . |
| 8 | But it was as the great leader in efforts to save the environment and the natural treasures of the world that he will be longest remembered . |
| 9 | It was about a young honeymoon couple , Frank and Betty Spencer . |
| 10 | The plot had a topical theme ; it was about a corrupt dictator who had been exiled from his Latin American country . |
| 11 | It was called Are We Nearly There ? and it was about a little boy who was on a journey with his father . |
| 12 | It was about a little girl . |
| 13 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 14 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 15 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 17 | It was about the only piece of hearts and minds they did . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose it was about the overdue ship . ’ |
| 19 | Banfield journeyed to the hinterland of southern Italy to try to find out what it was about the original culture of Italian immigrants that so retarded their sociological development . |
| 20 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 21 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 22 | I remember reading this book it was partly , it was about the German Navy |
| 23 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 24 | It was about an old boyfriend — before you , my dear — when I was fat and lacking confidence . |
| 25 | It was about an old people 's home |
| 26 | " Actually , it was through the female line , " he began , wondering how much he meant to explain , but they had ceased to listen to him . |
| 27 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 28 | It was through the French pub that he met the gallery owner , poet and denizen of Bohemia , Victor Musgrave . |
| 29 | ‘ It was worth a broken head ? ’ |
| 30 | It was worth a dozen records , that Rab was treated like a dog . |