Example sentences of "it [was/were] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 2 | With the independent network still smarting over BSkyB 's controversial £304 million capture of coverage of the new Premier League it was a second severe setback in just over a week . |
| 3 | we find , we found out about that place and it was , it was a third cheaper you know |
| 4 | Already in 1093 and 1094 , before he received the pallium , he had had two acrimonious disputes about the services which he owed the king as one of the greatest territorial magnates of the kingdom , and it was a third territorial dispute in 1097 which finally made him resolve to leave England . |
| 5 | It was the first official declaration that British passports mean nothing if their owners are black . |
| 6 | It was the first official visit to Turkey by an Iranian head of state since 1975 . |
| 7 | It was the first official agreement between the two countries . |
| 8 | It was the first official visit by a South African President since 1975 . |
| 9 | It was the first official visit to Northern Ireland by an Irish head of state . |
| 10 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 11 | It was the first such appointment world-wide and increased the momentum of changing attitudes . |
| 12 | It was the first such measure passed in any state , although similar measures were on the ballot papers for November in Colorado and California . |
| 13 | It was the first such treaty to be concluded between Spain and an Arab country . |
| 14 | It was the first such game to be played at the Sheffield stadium since 95 Liverpool fans died there in 1989 . |
| 15 | perhaps the major significance of the Council of Europe rests in the fact that it was the first European organisation with a political flavour . |
| 16 | It was the first violent act , and she knew the sort of man who had perpetrated that act far too well to naively believe that the slaughtering of Suki would be the beginning and the end . |
| 17 | It was the first suitable wind free morning since they had reached first jump status , and this was it . |
| 18 | According to the Xinhua news agency on May 3 it was the first Soviet delegation led by a Defence Minister to visit China . |
| 19 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 20 | Oh it was the first that ever started in Orkney , nobody ever thought You see before they used to cut their crop and set it in stokes . |
| 21 | It was the first two which carried most force and were backed by the most extensive social research . |
| 22 | It was the first two categories of capital murder in particular that discredited the Homicide Act . |
| 23 | The Ladder may lack the charm of some of the other works anthologised here but it was the first systematic and comprehensive account of the spiritual life to be written in English and its immediate popularity shows that it answered a real need . |
| 24 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 25 | It was the first general strike call made by the 45,000-member union , and on June 15 about 17 of 32 members of the MWU 's national council signed a communiqué denouncing MWU general secretary Mohammed Ould Rahdy for launching what they claimed was a politically motivated strike . |
| 26 | Apart from the Cuban missile crisis , it was the first political event really to break into my late adolescent consciousness . |
| 27 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 28 | It was the first long-term peace-time alliance for many years . |
| 29 | It was the first co-educational school of its type , breaking a barrier of sexual segregation as rigid as that of the English ‘ public ’ ( i.e. non-state ) schools . |
| 30 | When Symphony was originally launched in July 1984 it was the first integrated business software package and the fact that it comprised a spreadsheet , word processing , database , graphics and communications led it to be acclaimed as having a good user interface and being a very complex and powerful program . |