Example sentences of "[noun sg] it was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a full meeting of the convention later , Councillor John Connolly , of Central Region and chairman of the COSLA water and sewerage committee , said that since a great deal had been heard about taking stock it was time Mr Lang faced up to the fact that he had completely lost the argument for privatised water and sewerage services , including a franchise arrangement . |
| 2 | This is wrong because in the Chappy/Wallace partnership it was Wallace as the provider/space creater and Chappy as the main scorer . |
| 3 | At the end of a high scoring quiz it was Frazers Select who finished in the top spot . |
| 4 | Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads . |
| 5 | After the break it was Swindon 's turn , a back heel from Hazard , a perfect pass from Hoddle , a smart ball from Maskell and Paul Bodin took the glory . |
| 6 | After the sealing of the Treaty of Nonancourt it was time for Henry II to carry out the promise made at Winchester last September and deal with William and Vulgrin of Angoulême , Aimar of Limoges and the other defeated rebels . |
| 7 | In effect it was internationalist . |
| 8 | Last term it was Russia . |
| 9 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 10 | On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine . |
| 11 | Fogarty was left to move further and further ahead as Joey Dunlop took up the challenge , then Robert Dunlop made up ground rapidly after being seventh at the end of lap one , and by the end of the second lap it was Joey ahead of Robert to initiate a battle which continued until the end of the race when Robert just squeezed ahead . |
| 12 | The seniors did five laps and after one circuit it was Martin in the lead by six seconds . |
| 13 | From the late 18th century onward these brought sealers from North America and Europe into the Southern Ocean ; during the subsequent decades of competitive exploitation it was sealers who discovered most of the cold temperate islands , the ice-covered islands within the pack ice belt , the tip of Antarctic Peninsula , and the great ice-filled bight of the Weddell Sea . |
| 14 | Under the 1974 Act it was creditors not debtors who were liable to imprisonment . |
| 15 | At the Albert Hall it was bits of Eric Clapton 's band , Andy Fairweather Low and one of the Heartbreakers , with Katie Kissoon and Laura Niles sumptuously on the side . |
| 16 | We learned that the fuel promised by both Aerad and Bottlang was there , but instead of avgas it was Jet A1 . |
| 17 | After two weeks out in the desert it was time to take stock . |
| 18 | Early in the second half it was Aberdeen 's turn to score from the spot through substitute Joe Miller after Richard Gough tugged Scott Booth 's jersey . |
| 19 | While Rush ended the night as the hero it was Paul Stewart who got Liverpool going . |
| 20 | In winter it was hell . |
| 21 | if they had a girl it was Layla |
| 22 | After lunch it was time to don the wet suits and to ‘ run the gauntlet ’ . |
| 23 | Which had apparently been a a steam There had been a steam engine turning this er mill crushing mill and er er I remember there was a name in in this engine it was Queen of the Valley . |
| 24 | Well after the , the aircraft had actually er left the airport to go , be handed back to the RAF they said sometimes had to be serviced or final adjustments made and that 's what they used to go out there for but erm Helliwells was ver it was still , all through the war it was Helliwells aircraft they used to have their own lorries and everything and they used to erm , be under the auspices of the Air Ministry but it was very much a private company . |
| 25 | By the First World War it was C.T . |
| 26 | Christina Muir : ‘ Coming from a small boarding school evacuated and decimated by the war it was paradise to be with girls with intellectual interests . |
| 27 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 28 | For a moment it was Florence Nightingale speaking . |
| 29 | If anyone alive was not in need of cheek-roses at that moment it was Mr Cottle . |
| 30 | Right up until the four men left the cellar it was touch and go whether they would attack us . |