Example sentences of "it [adv] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It always was a pipe-dream . |
| 2 | It always was a chapel , of course , in the days of the Carterons and the Applebys . ’ |
| 3 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 4 | The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness . |
| 5 | But she had been wrong , for added to it now was a feeling of utter hopelessness : she was being confronted by a combined force . |
| 6 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 7 | It really was a bit much , she thought , to leave it until now to make trouble about the course . |
| 8 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 9 | It really was a dream ticket for women . |
| 10 | When we got there it really was a mess but services had come even from West Chelsea and we had to go back in case any of our unexploded bombs went off and we were needed nearer the river . |
| 11 | It really was a baptism by fire ! ’ |
| 12 | Yes , it really was a question of surviving . |
| 13 | If it really was a bomb , unzipping the cover would almost certainly trip a booby trap . |
| 14 | In my case it really was a form of celestial cannon ball . |
| 15 | And er so it really was a hand to mouth existence and going without . |
| 16 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 17 | If they do query it , cos I mean erm it really was a disgrace and I I 'm pretty tolerant . |
| 18 | About four feet in diameter , it really was a beauty and always being borrowed by my friends , something I never objected to , for the hoop was virtually unbreakable . |
| 19 | No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played . |
| 20 | After all that trouble , it really was a shame the end product was such utter rubbish . |
| 21 | At the foot of it there was a kind of dent in the stonework where she could crouch in behind the cloth , almost hidden . |
| 22 | ‘ So if I were to screen a feature film for you , and in it there was a scene that took place with two characters talking on a sofa , you would be able to tell me whether there was an object lying behind it ? ’ |
| 23 | On top of it there was a copper funnel , and there were rods coming out of the end of the funnel attached to a wheel . |
| 24 | When you opened it there was a pull-out strip with pictures of all the Super Leeds team . |
| 25 | We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station . |
| 26 | When he reached it there was a sprinkling of cars but no decrepit old van with a CND symbol on its side . |
| 27 | And by it there was a switch . |
| 28 | Ell talked to her and offered her support , but with it there was a feeling of coldness . |
| 29 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 30 | He was n't sure what sort of threat this presented , but was certain it definitely was a threat . |