Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 2 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 3 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 4 | It was past four o'clock before Félix returned from the nursing-home . |
| 5 | a ‘ wobbly voice ’ ( the woman was drunk ) — still wearing her dressing gown though it was past four o'clock … she was n't wearing much ; |
| 6 | It was past nine o'clock when he came , late enough to have emptied the streets . |
| 7 | By now it was past one o'clock . |
| 8 | It was past one o'clock . |
| 9 | It was past three o'clock , but the tack room light , besieged with huge crashing moths , was still on . |
| 10 | They stopped off for drinks in the country and it was about one o'clock in the morning before they were home . |
| 11 | It took two hours , even using all the short cuts , to walk to Low Birk Hatt , and it was about I a.m. when I got back . |
| 12 | It was through this most improbable passage of Scripture , taken home to her by the Spirit , that she in due course became a Christian . |
| 13 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 14 | It was at three am on August the eigth nineteen sixty three that Ronnie Biggs , Buster Edwards and their gang fixed the signals to stop the night train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire . |
| 15 | It was on such ultimately unanswerable questions about the past — and , indeed , the present — that we chose to dwell . |
| 16 | It was to this much dive-bombed , shelled and strafed position — described as a forefinger poking into Rommel 's midriff — that Leslie came , and where he remained throughout the summer and autumn , constantly in action . |
| 17 | Because of the localized nature of the kingdom , and the comparative lack of great political events and activity , it was for local rather than national purposes that these bonds were made . |
| 18 | And from previous experience it was for some no longer a matter of automatic belief when Hitler declared that ‘ the Bolshevik hordes … will be smashed into oblivion by us in the coming summer ’ . |
| 19 | It was for this very remarkable invention that he was employed . |
| 20 | It was during these very difficult times for Richard Baxter that the Lord graciously provided a ‘ help meet ’ for him . |
| 21 | It was from round here indeed that pumas got many of his names : Tréville , the captain of musketeers , seems to be a version of Trois-Villes , a hamlet outside Tardets , while Porthos , a second musketeer , was named after Porthau , once a prominent family in Lanne , a village between Tardets and Aramits . |
| 22 | It was from this very basic set up that we began to originate new musical programmes , interviews , debates , special community service talks , special events , and sports coverage . |
| 23 | It was after nine o'clock when I reached Valladolid , and I took a taxi to the Hotel Moderno . |
| 24 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 25 | It was after nine o'clock , however , by the time he got there , since his route was complicated , and involved calls at the mortuary of the General Hospital , at police headquarters , and a telephone call to the forensic laboratory . |
| 26 | It was after nine o'clock , but Dr Frome 's smooth good looks were marred by stubble and red eyes . |
| 27 | It was after twelve o'clock when Giles arrived and began unpacking his hammers . |
| 28 | It was after 10 p.m. and the General was to report to Joffre in Chantilly at 8 the next morning . |
| 29 | By now it was after five o'clock . |
| 30 | If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ? |