Example sentences of "[noun] it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 2 | For many centuries it was common form for a bishop to address a presbyter as ‘ fellow-presbyter ’ . |
| 3 | For Seldes it was contemporary drama that had been to blame , for it had encouraged the young movie industry to take ‘ the slice of life ’ as its subject-matter . |
| 4 | when you went shopping you could shop everywhere and a quarter of tea it was that price every shop , there was no competitiveness about it |
| 5 | So developed did the cult of personality in Northern Nigeria become that even in dealing with rude and warlike pagans it was bad form to stoop to securing their acquiescence in the will of the government by resort to force . |
| 6 | Like most engineering projects , it may have looked good on paper , but in practice it was another thing entirely . |
| 7 | By the time they entered the harbour it was high tide and the launch , with the Wheel riding her stern , lay almost level with the quay . |
| 8 | Last night had been wonderful ; but then , every time her body played host to his thick prick it was sheer heaven . |
| 9 | ‘ Immediately after the marathon it was local election time and I was on the move constantly . |
| 10 | I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing . |
| 11 | So if you think about the massive exodus from the south in the nineteen sixties and seventies erm I ca n't remember the precise figures but in the , at that time er sort of the equivalent of current social security cheque er in er if in , if in New York it was about five hundred dollars a month in Mississippi it was fifty dollars a month . |
| 12 | Were you thinking that broadcasting it was another piece of the pattern ? ’ |
| 13 | It was the first time in two decades that a British bike was beating the Japanese and for British biking enthusiasts it was stirring stuff . |
| 14 | For much of the past two decades it was Square City , the quaint , eccentric and often decidedly sick man of rock . |
| 15 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 16 | Hotspur wheeled to keep touch with him , pleased by the ready retort , but his impetus had swept them apart , and from that moment it was hand-to-hand work with whoever was cast up at him , horsed or afoot , until he could find room enough to choose his man and use a lance again . |
| 17 | ‘ Instead of first round defeats it was all semi-finals or finals , ’ he says . |
| 18 | With a catamaran it was instant acceleration that dampened the force of the wind . |
| 19 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 20 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 21 | For the hareem it was another Saturday . |
| 22 | Because of these problems it was some time before satisfactory reporting procedures were developed . |
| 23 | Er yes just er no really a service it was more hires than anything else . |
| 24 | When they served her with a stallion you see , it was three weeks elapsed then before she if you did n't go and foal with that service it was three weeks elapsed afore you game again . |
| 25 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |
| 26 | Just on the off chance it was that Danny . |
| 27 | For Richards it was another triumph , with 145 coming off just 159 balls , a display even more spectacular than Gooch 's — although the Englishman had had to contend with rather more hostile bowling . |
| 28 | Although communists were a nuisance it was fascist anti-semitism which caused the real headache ; if this were outlawed then the problem would be removed . |
| 29 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 30 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |