Example sentences of "it [was/were] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | It were in the 1890s . |
| 5 | Recreational drug use is bigger today than it was in the Sixties , but enthusiasm for Ecstasy may be starting to wane . |
| 6 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 7 | Rock and blues fans must go to ‘ Sticky Fingers ’ and see live music like it was in the good old days . |
| 8 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 9 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 10 | Here , you 'll get an authentic taste of life as it was in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . |
| 11 | But it was in the middle class that youthful sex was most firmly policed . |
| 12 | The statement that a rule exists may now no longer be what it was in the simple case of customary rules — an external statement of the fact that a certain mode of behaviour was generally accepted as a standard in practice . |
| 13 | It was in the nineteenth century that fiduciary duties were extended to company directors . |
| 14 | It was in the corresponding race last year , held at Gateshead , that she returned to top class competition for the first time since giving birth to daughter Rachel . |
| 15 | It was in the corresponding match last season that Marshall sustained the knee ligament damage which threatened to put him out of the game . |
| 16 | It may well have been so intended , as it was in the Canadian case of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 where the Jehovah 's Witness carried a card stating in unequivocal terms that she did not wish blood to be administered to her in any circumstances . |
| 17 | Inevitably , it was in the Hooded Owl speech , the play 's focus for either triumph or disaster . |
| 18 | Fortunately the aircraft maintained a perfect climbing attitude while I tried to sort it out , I reached for the elevator trim wheel ; one glance told me it was in the normal position . |
| 19 | It was in the final seconds that Morris hurried a clearing kick to touch which fell tantalisingly short . |
| 20 | I won both the 60 and 200 metres , but it was in the final event , the relay , that I received my greatest fillip . |
| 21 | It was in the following game against Argentina in Buenos Aires that Willie Johnson stole the show . |
| 22 | But it was in the following year , 1952 , that Eliot reached the largest audience he had known : The Cocktail Party was broadcast on television , and was watched by an estimated three-and-a-half million people . |
| 23 | this week again there 's a lot of repeats in it , and he said other people that send adverts in ca n't even get er a look in , they do n't , anyway that , after he wrote the letter it was in the following week . |
| 24 | It was in the Southern Cone countries where industrialisation , the pre-requisite of a proletariat , came earliest to Latin America , in the middle to late nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Well no I thought we agreed that if it was in the southern boundaries , the locations it does n't matter what were |
| 26 | It was in the sad , wet summer of 1945 . |
| 27 | Moreover , control upon those members of the section who are not pulling their weight is often asserted from below , as it was in the mocking manner in which the policeman quoted above reported his colleague 's absence from work due to migraine . |
| 28 | It was in the 2nd round of the FA Cup in December 1937 when the Palace had had to make the long trip to Accrington on one of the rare times when the draw for this round was not made on a geographical basis . |
| 29 | It was in the thirties , with the expansion of the commercial library ( Boots lending library , for example ) that Mills and Boon concentrated their attention on the production of romance fiction , published in cheap brown bindings . |
| 30 | He can compare Germany with what it was in the Thirties . |