Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no it 's not bad , I think it were er the first swear word I remember that went , went on it were wait a minute tape two , tape one ai n't got none on that I know of . |
| 2 | The ICA felt there was merit in the keeping of a central record , and thought that , if it were made a requirement , it could be part of the responsibility of the reporting accountant to confirm its existence . |
| 3 | In a title search , for example , a search for an incomplete or garbled title would lead to the choice of a title index display or a search for titles containing the words of the search , and thenceforth behave rather as if it were doing a subject search . |
| 4 | Immediately underneath the stone lay a cist containing several rude cinerary urns , and alongside of it were found a gold fibula and an armilla of a peculiar type made from a broad band of gold beaten out so as to form a convex centre , on each side of which was a fluted ornamental border , and a raised rim returned at the edge . " |
| 5 | Almost as if it were playing a game . |
| 6 | When studied by Davis in the mid-1960s it was undergoing a transition from a relatively self-contained peasant society to one forming part of a much wider market economy . |
| 7 | It was to compare a seaside town with a market town or summat . |
| 8 | Union Discount alleged that it was owed a duty of care by the auditors when they reported on the audit . |
| 9 | However , they were oppressed , perhaps not altogether surprisingly , by the thought that , if the Act meant no more than , in plain terms , it said , then it was taking a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since the ambit of the exclusion — and thus the utility of the special procedures — would be very considerably narrowed . |
| 10 | It was taking a risk , when she thought about it , to go to the seaside in September . |
| 11 | When they had problems not so long ago it was taking a month . |
| 12 | Well we could a continued it for erm , well I du n no , but erm it was getting a bit out of hand with the picket line really , cos there was a lot of these youngsters who were n't prepared to do these picket line . |
| 13 | They did n't seem to mind me hanging in there , but it was getting a bit like the ocean liner scene in the Marx brothers ' Night at the Opera . |
| 14 | he was out moaning again yesterday , so I just thought it was getting a bit long round where the old septic tank used to be oh sha n't and we 've done Tesco 's so that clock 's right is n't it ? |
| 15 | Yeah it was getting a bit heavy were n't it ? |
| 16 | yeah cos it was getting a bit raw there was n't it ? |
| 17 | Yeah , and it was getting a bit dark and I could n't see |
| 18 | In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool . |
| 19 | What they ‘ d just seen was an excerpt from his full-length film Is There Sex After Death ? , a blue movie parody that he ‘ d made on a very tight budget — so tight in fact that the only way he could think of promoting it was to call a press conference — of a sort ! |
| 20 | Managers were yesterday working on plans for a buyout to save up to 1,400 jobs at the Birmingham factory and a management team at the Washwood Heath van plant confirmed it was developing a take-over plan . |
| 21 | Managers were yesterday working on plans for a buyout to save up to 1,400 jobs at the Birmingham factory and a management team at the Washwood Heath van plant confirmed it was developing a take-over plan . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 23 | The hospital spokesman said it was believed a smoke alarm was set off by someone having a cigarette in a toilet . |
| 24 | This time it was to mark a milestone in the history of exploration . |
| 25 | This time it was to mark a milestone in the history of exploration . |
| 26 | It was holding a newspaper and it belonged to an old gentleman . |
| 27 | It was holding a party to which I had not been invited . |
| 28 | Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army . |
| 29 | Pasok denied yesterday it was waging a battle on two fronts . |
| 30 | As the war progressed , and the civilian population became increasingly disillusioned , the more important it was to foster a belief in his invincibility , and his image was widely used in propaganda . |