Example sentences of "[subord] it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Channel 4 has gone and the sport is back where it was six years ago . |
| 2 | That seemed pretty profound , till I found another cinema where it was all violence , sex-and-violence , and violence . |
| 3 | So that you can in the end , when I came to do it , although it was seventeen people I did n't find it too difficult . |
| 4 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
| 5 | That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun . |
| 6 | Two sizeable works had gone in under two hours , although it was forty-eight hours before new outbreaks ceased . |
| 7 | The seasons are reluctant to let go in the North of England and , although it was early May , Nora wore her winter coat . |
| 8 | Although it was early afternoon , the streets were empty , and Michael Lee was conscious that he was probably attracting much unwarranted attention . |
| 9 | They would hear the happy chatter of the people in the harvest field , because although it was hard work , it was happy work . |
| 10 | With this went the prospect of renting better housing , of buying the new consumer items , and for those on £4 , with small families , the prospect of buying their own semi-detached houses — although it was manual workers who earned more than £4 who were likely to do that . |
| 11 | Mrs Gracie still called Nathan Holland the young gentleman , although it was several years now since he had become practically an inmate of the house . |
| 12 | Although it was common gossip that Zoia 's private life was deeply and messily unhappy , and that alcohol was a frequent source of consolation , and of course the stories about Nicu 's debauchery and coarseness were unparalleled , Valentin 's public reputation ( which is to say , the cautious whispers between friends about him ) was positive . |
| 13 | Although it was 12 years ago , both vividly remember the day they learned about their parents ' seperation . |
| 14 | ‘ She is tall and fair and fair-skinned , a nice green dress , good-looking I should say , although it was artificial light and I should think she looks very different in the day time … yes , I should think very different . |
| 15 | There was no sign of Carrie and although it was milking time the cows were still in the field . |
| 16 | It should be emphasised that this is an extreme version of the sentence-grammarian 's view and one which is found less frequently , in contemporary linguistics , than it was fifteen years ago . |
| 17 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 18 | This aspect of a head 's management is better understood now than it was thirty years ago . |
| 19 | Sharing is even more out of step with materialistic white Australia today than it was 200 years ago . |
| 20 | The 1990–91 level of funding , a meagre £23 million , is lower than it was four years ago . |
| 21 | greater than it was four years ago . |
| 22 | Meat is better value now than it was 10 years ago , according to the latest issue of the Meat and Livestock Commission 's Meat Demand Trends . |
| 23 | Home-killed lamb is the best value , reveals a Meat and Livestock Commission report , which says meat is better value now than it was 10 years ago and has risen in price 15% less than the rise in inflation |
| 24 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 25 | higher than it was 10 years ago . |
| 26 | The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders . |
| 27 | The price of a large coffee-table book is in a number of cases twenty times higher than it was two years ago . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're always looking for people of the right calibre , although today , with the downturn in levels of activity , it 's harder to get into corporate finance than it was five years ago , ’ he warns . |
| 29 | more than it was eight years earlier . |
| 30 | That mismatch seems worse than it was ten years ago . |