Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 2 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 3 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 4 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 5 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 6 | ‘ If only it were just a story . ’ |
| 7 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 8 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |
| 9 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 10 | One of the reason you get took on , I mean , it were only a borstal when he went were n't it ? |
| 11 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 12 | The head saw a possible solution in a more flexible points allocation for ancillary assistance than that which was LEA policy , but recognised that it was principally a matter of lack of finance . |
| 13 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 14 | At best it was either a publicity stunt designed help sell third-rate books or a neat piece of disinformation put out by the Russians in order to sow confusion amongst the West 's intelligence agencies . |
| 15 | It was either a passage or a long , thin room , a stone-walled storage space lined with gunpowder plot-style wooden barrels . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 17 | Well we thought it was either a rent man or somebody collecting for the council . |
| 18 | I remember that when we were there we went on th , it was either a boat or something ? |
| 19 | It was either a penalty , or a goal kick ( if the ref thought that the forward had intentionally got tangled up ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Richards got the tackle on Bunce and it was either a penalty for us , or a scrum with a turnover to the Lions . |
| 21 | We are not quite sure who sold the business to XY Ltd as a going concern — presumably it was either a receiver of AB Ltd or AB 's directors prior to liquidation . |
| 22 | It was thus a relief to overhear The Angelic Conversation ( ReVision , PG , rental ) , whose background noise is provided by Dame Judi Dench drooling sonorously over Shakespearean sonnets . |
| 23 | It was thus a revolution in British fiscal policy which Chamberlain advocated in the name of Empire ; and from his Birmingham speech in May 1903 until he was struck down three years later his advocacy of tariff reform and his Imperial theme dominated British policies . |
| 24 | It was thus a stage towards the releasing of vassals from the oaths of loyalty and obedience . |
| 25 | It was thus a boon to the cause that one of its earliest recruits was T.E . |
| 26 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 27 | It was equally a battle over the new technology , as well as over the future of book printing in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | It was self-consciously a reversal of the Versailles policy , after the first world war , of exacting war reparations from the defeated . |
| 29 | It was both a question and a statement and we both smiled , for we both knew the answer . |
| 30 | It was both a defence of translation of the Bible and an assertion of the loyalty of the Reformers to the state . |