Example sentences of "[subord] it [was/were] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That seemed pretty profound , till I found another cinema where it was all violence , sex-and-violence , and violence . |
| 2 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |
| 3 | It 's colder than it was this morning I think . |
| 4 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 5 | She was rather young when she married and had been brought up as a lady , so it was another world for her . |
| 6 | It was obviously a popular haunt — and not just with the boating fraternity — so it was some while before their food was brought to them . |
| 7 | It meant taking Weenie and Co. , who had to be made tidy and neat , so it was some time before their caravan set forth . |
| 8 | The chef mashed a lump of raw gristle on his stove , and kept it down until it was half charcoal . |
| 9 | And , by the way , " he added , as if it was all part of the same subject , " I think I 've come up with the safest combination of captain and crew for your journey . |
| 10 | However , to get him to the point where he might be weaned from the ventilator , one must allow him to sleep and get stronger , so if it was that kind of day or that kind of period , he might have more sedation than other times . |
| 11 | If it was that number it would be hundreds . |
| 12 | It would be written with my pen , you see , if it was that letter . |
| 13 | The Vadinamians like to stage Recovery as if it was some kind of major ceremonial — with the required assembling of all the off-worlders , the exact timing and so on . |
| 14 | He raised the bucket too , and shook it rhythmically , as if it was some kind of primitive musical instrument . |
| 15 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 16 | Anyway , if it was some place like where those sisters are . ’ |
| 17 | if it was another girl he would have another one . |
| 18 | After pausing for a second he must have relented , because he told her that if it was any help she could borrow benches and trestle tables . |
| 19 | I just thought , if it was any good if I took Bryony to the hairdresser with me and you took Richard and James |
| 20 | you go and have a look at that one in the bathroom any way he looked at that mark , so if it was any thing |
| 21 | if it was any thing he 'd er |
| 22 | If it was any consolation the same basic problems existed in the Church of England , while among Roman Catholics few if any clergy were well paid . |
| 23 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 24 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 25 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 26 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 27 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 28 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 29 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 30 | as if it were any day . |