Example sentences of "it [was/were] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in October 1691 the risk of an invasion via Ireland was slight , but unrest continued in Scotland , with whose problems William III had no sympathy ; he is said to have remarked that he wished it were a thousand miles away . |
| 2 | It was a veritable hornets ' nest ! |
| 3 | It was just like before , back at the jetty , only this time it was a hundred times worse . |
| 4 | It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event . |
| 5 | It was a hundred years of Open Championships since the Belt was played for at Prestwick . |
| 6 | It was a hundred years later that electricity was first used . |
| 7 | this is as true today as it was a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 8 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 9 | and it was a four barrels of Carlsberg . |
| 10 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 11 | It was a real rags-to-riches story . |
| 12 | It was a typical women 's downhill course : relatively low-speed , but extremely technical with tight corners . |
| 13 | Stefan : It was a million light-years away from our planet . |
| 14 | He claimed in the press that it set out Government policy , but it was a million miles away from our policy . |
| 15 | And it was a million miles from what Ronni had assumed ! |
| 16 | It was a thousand times better that England should be a Prussian colony . |
| 17 | It was a thousand pounds . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a 128 Sports , ’ he admits , ‘ which proudly announced its 70 hp on a flash down the side . |
| 19 | After all it was a legitimate weapons cargo , however much Britain might disapprove . |
| 20 | So it was a public relations effort ? |
| 21 | The Greek merchant fleet is much smaller than it was a dozen years ago . |
| 22 | It was a favourite prisoners ' jeer at the guards , though unfair in view of the relative safety of the prisoners ' position . |
| 23 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 24 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 25 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 26 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 27 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 28 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 29 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 30 | It was a few moments ' work to have her sitting with her baggage in a gig , to crown the blot with a ridiculous hat , and to write the word CAMBRIDGE on a downward-sloping signpost . |