Example sentences of "[prep] it [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of it was extravagant expenditure — we did n't buy new desks or other unnecessary items . |
| 2 | Some of it was instinct with Davidson , of course , but most of it was solid experience , starting , as Davidson had once told him , with his being seduced by the school-dinner lady at the age of thirteen in his native Ayrshire . |
| 3 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 4 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 5 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not saying any of it was great writing , but you ca n't beat a first-hand report . |
| 7 | And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say . |
| 8 | most of it was fresh produce . |
| 9 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 10 | Most of it was just bumph , bills and Christmas cards , except for a bulky , strange-looking package which had been delivered by hand . |
| 11 | By 1800 most of it was white bread , bought from a baker , possible because coal drove the cost of fuel down . |
| 12 | Yes , I could now see most of it was olive green , with the odd camo suit . |
| 13 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 14 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 15 | Now you 're preaching the sacrament of the foaming fibreglass , and digging your rail into the face like it was some kind of religion . |
| 16 | To start with it was pure cockiness . |
| 17 | To start with it was pure cockiness . |
| 18 | With it was another sound . |
| 19 | ‘ The thing is , ’ Mungo went on , ‘ under it was this bird 's skull ; like the one they … ’ |
| 20 | Reviewers who took it all too seriously said Corman 's movie and Nicholson 's part in it was bad film-making , bad acting , bad taste and quite undeserving of consideration . |
| 21 | Beyond it was another raft with , even as he watched , a dark shape rearing up out of the sea alongside . |
| 22 | Outside it was growing dark , only a red glow showed where the sun had set . |
| 23 | Outside it was full daylight . |
| 24 | Though he was awake the sensation continued , and to it was added sound : a milky sigh that excited him . |
| 25 | Whether he was intelligent enough not to pay heed to it was another matter . |
| 26 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
| 27 | On it was one shoe with the buckle missing and a half filled chamber-pot . |
| 28 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 29 | The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort . |
| 30 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |