Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On it were small framed photographs of the Emperor , the Prince Imperial , her sister and her mother , as well as other friends and relations . |
2 | It were lovely that cake . |
3 | Oh it was blue last year was n't it ? |
4 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
5 | But it was fellow New Zealander Tea Ropati who led Saints to victory . |
6 | Well , it was Russian New Year 's Eve — 14 January . |
7 | Is it , it 's like a big eye , and it was black one side and white the other side and the black side had a white pupil and the white the other side had a black one |
8 | By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress . |
9 | Thus in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , Dixon C.J. clearly had doubts as to whether it was right that money paid pursuant to an unlawful demand of the Crown should not be recoverable . |
10 | It was late that evening that the torpedo from one of Ark Royal 's Swordfish planes smashed Bismarck 's rudder , thus ensuring her destruction by the British fleet . |
11 | It was due fifty minutes late in Martigny , its next scheduled stop , twenty-five miles south of Montreux . |
12 | It was powerful pragmatic argument . |
13 | It was encouraging last year , that when some Cycladic antiquities were being sold at Sotheby 's , the Greek government made a protest and had some impact on that sale . |
14 | It was Grand National time and he could n't think of anything but Top Spin Lob . ’ |
15 | getting taken into hospital , oh it was terrible that day . |
16 | In 1941 , it was poor agricultural land next to the small market town of Bicester ; a year later , 24,000 soldiers were installed in an ordnance depot . |
17 | Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor . |
18 | It was simple bad luck . |
19 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
20 | It was typical male selfishness and cruelty . |
21 | It was typical poor foursomes golf . |
22 | Partly it was normal Arab volatility , their ability to move from elation to depression , rage to calm , in the space of a few bewildering seconds . |
23 | It was normal diplomatic protocol to exchange presents when delegations met , and Umanskii detects a distinct difference between these gifts and those which yasak-paying tribes gave originally voluntarily , but later on under coercion . |
24 | It was normal social behaviour . |
25 | It was fluent educated English and the accent had only a trace of French as well as a trace of English nanny . |
26 | It was unclear last night how many East Berliners planned to stay in the West , where facilities are increasingly being overstretched . |
27 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
28 | It was majjal bil-Patata fil-Forn , a classic Maltese dish , exquisitely cooked by your mother 's loyal housekeeper Kathleen . ’ |
29 | It was n't brilliant oratory , no flowers of rhetoric à la Curzon , or subtle " nuances " à la Balfour , but it was good hard sound commonsense and the way he showed up the government was admirable . |
30 | It was good wholesome fare : rye bread and cheese , apples and meat . |