Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was clearly a very bad joke , by some misguided person , or it was a mistake . |
| 2 | Garland was murdered because he was Garland , or it was a motiveless killing , or it was a mistake . |
| 3 | It was too dark and he was too afraid , or his conscience troubled him , or it was a combination of the two and so he hung back . |
| 4 | Either they wanted to frighten him , or it was a joke . |
| 5 | I worked in a construction industry and er , and it was a male orientated dominated er industry , and I think what Councillor is probably just taking small parts in isolation , Highways and Planning which has at least one chartered engineer and additional female . |
| 6 | Through all of this there was a shadow falling across the conversation , and it was a while before Alina could bring herself to give it a name . |
| 7 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 8 | He smiled coolly , and it was a smile that somehow managed to convey a ruthless hardness in him that was n't used to compromise and was n't going to start now . |
| 9 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 10 | I heard him moving about upstairs , and it was a minute or two before he came down again . |
| 11 | The lads had pitched their tents behind some small dunes and it was a struggle to get there . |
| 12 | ‘ This was the wife of Peter Sutcliffe , who woke to a nightmare in January , 1981 , and it was a nightmare that never went away . ’ |
| 13 | She was n't happy , she was suddenly plunged into all this pressure and it was a nightmare for her . |
| 14 | and she was just a working girl , you know , and it was a worry to her as well . |
| 15 | Last year there were some , so the Liberal Democrats took the view that we could only properly set a budget at the capping level and that is a level at which we set our budget and it was a level at which we set our budget back in December and right through to this date . |
| 16 | One end is and the other one ai n't , and it was a yacht and a yacht , they got little rooms in or something cos in n it ? |
| 17 | Andrew 's job as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot , based in Somerset , meant they spent just 100 days together in their first year and it was a parting that Fergie felt particularly keenly . |
| 18 | They knew that they needed us and it was a question of our integrity and our goodwill . |
| 19 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 20 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 21 | We had a valuable property , and it was a question of not being rowed out . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And it was a leprechaun suit ? ’ |
| 23 | And it was a film which really was ill-conceived and quite frankly ridiculous . |
| 24 | An intelligent player , who read the game well , Peter was a considerable asset in the top flight but , in only the third match of 1972–73 , he had the misfortune to break his leg in a tackle with his former Liverpool team-mate Tommy Smith , and it was a year or more before he was really able to play properly again , and that represented a real loss to the club . |
| 25 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 26 | And it was a year in which we were able to declare ourselves to be a good research and teaching university . |
| 27 | If Mark Knopfler took five years to produce another record , and it was a classic , I do n't have any worries . |
| 28 | ‘ My mother was English , remember , and it was a classic , was n't it ? |
| 29 | The thought gave her another fillip of excitement — her first job for Focus Now , the new picture magazine Nick was editing — and it was a corker , she knew it in her bones . |
| 30 | And it was a station . |