Example sentences of "[noun sg] it was [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er yes just er no really a service it was more hires than anything else . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's basically offering people erm rather than becoming members they can become a supporter for five pounds a year of the Green Party for which they get three shortened up beat newsletters and this week it was two sides of A four . |
| 4 | Thus , the maximum penalty for indecently assaulting a man was formerly ten years ' imprisonment , whereas for a woman it was two years , rising to five where she was under 13 . |
| 5 | Even during the Reformation it was biblical scenes likely to promote superstition and idolatry that came down . |
| 6 | But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary . |
| 7 | Of course it was all lies . |
| 8 | And the next day I picked it up and of course it was ten shillings , my full |
| 9 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 10 | At dawn it was grey clouds and rain over the racecourse , but there was no lie-in for the true racing fan . |
| 11 | But the Club was no longer ‘ news ’ in the way it was 60 years earlier . |
| 12 | In the early twelfth century it was two shillings ; a century earlier it must often have been considerably more . |
| 13 | The previous year it was small coppers ; in other summers large skippers and small heaths . |
| 14 | Last year it was 128,500 tonnes , but only 90,000 tonnes were caught . |
| 15 | Sometimes rap was difficult to defend because at the time it was all dicks and gold . |
| 16 | Actually , this time it was two shots : first poor old Doug 's missed putt and then the shot Nicklaus put through the green on the 18th in the playoff . |
| 17 | This time it was two brothers from Ohio returning from a visit to Disney World . |
| 18 | The house was very grand , in fact it was two houses . |
| 19 | These five cars received the least modifications of any of the South Metropolitan fleet and in fact it was many years before they were even repainted , running in deep chocolate and ivory , with only the fleet numbers and badges altered . |
| 20 | In fact it was 20 years ago , before ZZ Top were even famous . |
| 21 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |