Example sentences of "[noun] it was [noun] [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 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
| 3 | And as they came to the final furlongs it was Roc de Prince , Laura 's Beau , Sure Metal going for the line and then on the outside , up came New Mill House . |
| 4 | While Rush ended the night as the hero it was Paul Stewart who got Liverpool going . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 7 | For a moment it was Florence Nightingale speaking . |
| 8 | If anyone alive was not in need of cheek-roses at that moment it was Mr Cottle . |
| 9 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
| 10 | In his day it was factory smoke , not petrol , |
| 11 | At the finish it was Mike Edwards from Wigan who presented the major threat and took second place . |
| 12 | If there was anyone in the world who could match Marvin drink for drink it was Richard Burton . |
| 13 | They went to bed and when Lavinia woke in the night it was Timothy Gedge she thought of , not her lost child . |
| 14 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
| 15 | last month it was winter cabbage |
| 16 | Well the suspect , th th the guy who committed the murder 's not any of the people it was Harvey Jones from the centre cos he was involved in paedophilia . |
| 17 | In London , Eden fell sick and Churchill took over the Foreign Officer , He gave final permission for what the British called Operation Boot to proceed , ( To the CIA it was Operation Ajax ) Churchill sent an even stronger message encouraging the Shah to act against Mossadeq . |
| 18 | As cellarer to the abbey it was Brother Oudart 's responsibility to manage these estates together with a staff of some 130 women and 20 men . |
| 19 | When I was a kid it was two-times table and the sharp edge of a ruler along your-arse if you did n't know them . |
| 20 | If one man was likely to emulate Surtees ' success it was Mike Hailwood , widely acknowledged as the greatest bike rider of all time . |
| 21 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 22 | During these activities it was Fraser Muirhead who remained my constant friend and companion . |
| 23 | Of course it was Roger Rabbit who , last year , brought animated feature films back from the dead . |
| 24 | When what is arguably the most beautiful and tranquil corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park got planning permission to be turned into a golf course it was Mike Harding 's protests that summoned the ombudsman . |
| 25 | Of course it was Stanley Spencer , his wife and child . |
| 26 | For the second half Colchester did reshuffle … the sub keeper came on … stil only ten men of course … and within minutes it was Chris Pike 3 Colchester 0 as the striker got his hat-trick … |
| 27 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 28 | The case of Mrs Duncan influenced him strongly , but for some reason it was Anna Beckett more than anyone who made up his mind . |
| 29 | In New York it was acid art in knocked-together Lower-East-Side lofts , and a meeting with John Wilcock on the verge of quitting the Voice and moving to Walter Bowart 's new East Village Other . |
| 30 | In the end it was Harry Dunstaple who approached him with a really sensible idea . |