Example sentences of "[prep] it was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been romanticized as a tradition of public service when much of it was about the protection of vested interests . |
| 2 | A bit of it was on the television . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 4 | It was in the localities that the war stimulated innovation in classroom practice , but such innovation was usually makeshift , not prefigurative , and much of it was for the duration only . |
| 5 | Much of it was of the Louis XIV period ( which has a much more limited market than Louis XVI furniture ) , and in contrast to the freshness of the Patiño lots , had mostly been recently bought at high prices . |
| 6 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 7 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 8 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 9 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 10 | Very much like it was on the , the aeroplane . |
| 11 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 12 | Rock and blues fans must go to ‘ Sticky Fingers ’ and see live music like it was in the good old days . |
| 13 | And they 'll get back on a winning streak by putting the ‘ Ell back in Elland Road — just like it was in the glory days of super manager Don Revie and hard-man skipper Billy Bremner . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura 's age got to it was in the clothes they wore . |
| 16 | The Restoration witnessed an attempt to return , unconditionally , to the country 's position as it was at the beginning of 1642 . |
| 17 | ‘ But the truth is the first you knew about it was at the party . ’ |