Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet basically it was a team of people trying to wrest power , not a populist-based overthrow . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was a ghost ! |
| 3 | In the fields to her left , a man was riding , or perhaps it was a boy , for the figure was very small . |
| 4 | Nobody came in so perhaps it was a mistake . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was a mistake perhaps keeping you here has done no good … |
| 6 | In her smallest voice , she said , ‘ Perhaps it was a mistake ? ’ |
| 7 | After she died , the renegade thought came into his mind that perhaps it was a surfeit of prayer in those chill damp churches that had killed her . |
| 8 | This was a strange rare way of conserving a Corps : perhaps it was a Pickle , as for Beefe , whose Saltness in so many years the Lead might sweeten and render insipid . |
| 9 | In part perhaps it was a translation of the Old English ‘ Bretwalda ’ , a title attributed to the high kings of the island from very early days ; in part it may have been direct imitation of Byzantium . |
| 10 | Well I thought perhaps it was a bit what was wrapped up |
| 11 | Perhaps it was a hoax or someone with a grudge . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was a nightmare . |
| 14 | Or perhaps it was a system glitch . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was a kind of farewell kiss . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was a helicopter , or a boat . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps it was a relief that matters were being taken out of her hands . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 19 | When Mark Proctor volleyed the ball against the bar in the first half perhaps it was a sign it was not going to be Boro 's night . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was a dream , an image of those enclosed and shaded gardens , the clarity of bubbling fountains , the marvellous fluidity of the script , the dazzling patterns of mosaic , the austere lines of its minarets , the absolute tenets of its Holy Book . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was a reversion to humane behaviour after Stalin 's terror techniques . |
| 22 | ‘ But perhaps it was a nostalgia trip for the two of you ? |
| 23 | Perhaps it was a combination of all these reasons . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was a line from a book . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps it was a form of revenge , ’ said Robyn . |
| 26 | And then that perhaps it was a sort of reminder . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was a wind-up , he thought . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was a show of support for his disciplining of Gilchrist ; perhaps there was the feeling that Worrell had drifted away from the hub of West Indies cricket ; or perhaps once again the selectors simply could not bring themselves to appoint a black man . |
| 29 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 30 | Something black … perhaps it was a skiing mask . ’ |