Example sentences of "it [was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal 's diet has to be similar , if not exactly the same as , its diet would be if it were in the wild . |
| 2 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 3 | Yeah , so if it were in the dictionary , I mean I know you able to turn to the |
| 4 | If it were in the silence that the blackbirds speak to each other ? |
| 5 | It was in the Vanguard Unionist Party Central Office , 9 Hawthornden Road , Belfast . |
| 6 | Their distinctive sound grew from adapting rock forms and instruments , and , eventually , it was in the pubs and folk festivals of Britain that they began to achieve some sort of prominence , while back home the discos of Harare pulsated to the real sound of Whitney Houston . |
| 7 | It was in the vicinity of these steps that my father fell , scattering the load on his tray — teapot , cups , saucers , sandwiches , cakes — across the area of grass at the top of the steps . |
| 8 | Its history is known with certainty back to about AD 1350 , when it was in the possession of the de Charny family in France . |
| 9 | Chowood Ltd. v. Lyall ( No. 2 ) [ 1930 ] 2 Ch. 156 concerned a strip of land which had , on first registration , been included in a registered title notwithstanding that it was in the possession of an adjoining owner . |
| 10 | No , dearie , when I say , the basis for a new poetry , I do n't mean the vers libre movement as it was in the year 1912 . ) |
| 11 | It was in the year of Easy Rider that Nick Adams was found dead . |
| 12 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 13 | As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end . |
| 14 | It was in the winter of 1987–88 that I announced I was going to race mostly in Britain in Olympic year . |
| 15 | It was in the winter time so it was full of hay but they would be very careful and we would ask them that they had no matches in case er there was no cigarettes much and that but pipes they were pipe smokers . |
| 16 | Anyway , it was , it was in the winter . |
| 17 | The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura 's age got to it was in the clothes they wore . |
| 18 | Carrington 's flight was put off three times , and when he did go it was in the belly of a Mosquito , lying on a blanket and wrapped in a heavy coat . |
| 19 | It was in the field behind the Strathmore Arms , actually . |
| 20 | It was in the field of cult and religious objects , of decorative and decorated-utilitarian articles , and of what can eventually be distinguished as , in a modern sense , works of art , that reproductive technology became a major cultural mode . |
| 21 | When Coleridge and the Wordsworths met together once more after a separation of several weeks , it was in the knowledge that the Alfoxden year would soon be over . |
| 22 | it was in the folder |
| 23 | That 's how important it was in the port . |
| 24 | I am not sure , either , whether it was in the struggle against the Krooms that the Griffin gun made its mark , or rather , three marks . |
| 25 | Then I try to discover what it was in the vision that charmed and translated me . |
| 26 | It was in the drawer . |
| 27 | The new album , ‘ Hype ’ , is more guitar-based than The High 's debut which , forged as it was in the wake of Manchester 's nebulous ‘ baggy ’ explosion , suffered from rather inappropriate comparisons with the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays . |
| 28 | It was in the wake of the London conference on Germany that the Americans , British and French initiated a number of policies designed to resolve the future of Western Europe without Soviet interference . |
| 29 | It was in the wake of that boom that Short was attracted to chess . |
| 30 | Often it was in the afternoon , bodies overheated by the sun and work abandoned . |