Example sentences of "[adv] it was [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was that paradox — more than any other aspect of its nature — which would finally undo it . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it was that bump we went over , ’ said Bob hesitantly . |
| 4 | Who was attacking it ? perhaps it was that letter from that bastard up in town . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |
| 7 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was this atmosphere , coupled with Max Jacob 's fierce Catholicism , that led Modigliani to seek out his roots . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was more evidence of a Celtic past . |
| 10 | So it was that night at Hampton Court . |
| 11 | So it was all nonsense , was it ? |
| 12 | Yes , well cos you see , I mean , you see you begin life as erm your , your shop was the corner shop erm you know the shop was the Co-op and of course erm we always went each week , my brother and I , er to the Co-op for the groceries you see , so it was all Co-op . |
| 13 | So it was another blackwash , another disaster , for England . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it was this group that determined which records would be played on request programmes . |
| 15 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
| 16 | Thus it was that Rincewind , hurrying through the crowded , flare-lit evening bazaars of Morpork with the Luggage trundling behind him , jostled a tall dark figure , turned to deliver a few suitable curses , and beheld Death . |
| 17 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 18 | He laughed and kissed her again , and somehow it was another hour before the last of the doughnuts and her third cup of tea were consumed and he decreed that the colour had returned to her cheeks and they could leave . |
| 19 | It was never locked before 9 P.M. It was that night . |
| 20 | well it was that area , our mother used to go fetch her she us she came into our yard two or three times but I know |
| 21 | Well it was that shop . |
| 22 | Well it was half way through when I came in |
| 23 | The old man had never suggested before that they have a drink together ; maybe it was all part of that new world he had entered when he stood in front of Mr Albert 's mirror in his new suit . |
| 24 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 25 | And there was this view in Britain that maybe it was some kind of Russian er you know that it was a Russian manoeuvre . |
| 26 | I du n no , maybe it was some sort of ventilation thing . |
| 27 | She 's the fifties or sixties generation , and then it was all slimness , tight dresses . |
| 28 | then it was the priest , then it was another nurse , then the priest and she was getting a bit |
| 29 | Indeed it was this failure which led ultimately to her rejection by the Conservative party which , remembering Disraeli 's warning that ‘ the Conservative party is a national party , or it is nothing ’ , was alarmed by the hostility she aroused in half the nation . |
| 30 | Indeed it was this book more than any other which caused Laslett to retract his statement of 1956 that ‘ political philosophy is dead ’ |