Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 2 | If it were on the very fringe of his area he might not be back until lunch-time . |
| 3 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 4 | I beg your pardon I beg your pardon twelve , these two things were separate you know one could be added to the other in looking an as it were at the total employment requirement . |
| 5 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
| 6 | It were in the 1920s and it was a passenger train from Cleethorpes to Doncaster and the driver , well , he was a hard , fast driver and he was n't popular with firemen . |
| 7 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
| 8 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 9 | It were in the 1890s . |
| 10 | Another investigation , looking at the problem as it were from the opposite direction , compared adoptees selected for later estimates of their creativity and then examined incidences of mental illness . |
| 11 | But it was as the great leader in efforts to save the environment and the natural treasures of the world that he will be longest remembered . |
| 12 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 14 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 15 | It was about the only piece of hearts and minds they did . |
| 16 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 17 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 18 | Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose it was about the overdue ship . ’ |
| 20 | Banfield journeyed to the hinterland of southern Italy to try to find out what it was about the original culture of Italian immigrants that so retarded their sociological development . |
| 21 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 22 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 23 | I remember reading this book it was partly , it was about the German Navy |
| 24 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 25 | " Actually , it was through the female line , " he began , wondering how much he meant to explain , but they had ceased to listen to him . |
| 26 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 27 | It was through the French pub that he met the gallery owner , poet and denizen of Bohemia , Victor Musgrave . |
| 28 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 29 | So it was with the other hostages . |
| 30 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |