Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disclaimer would not be effective if it were merely contained in the small print of a contract or if it were simply the subject of a casual remark by the salesman during negotiations . |
| 2 | If it were otherwise the court system would simply collapse under the strain . |
| 3 | The defenders pushed at the makeshift scaling ladders , and at least one went crashing back down into the crowd below ; but those who exposed themselves to do it were immediately the target of a dozen archers . |
| 4 | It were n't the way everyone said an ’ thought it was , you see , not by a long chalk . |
| 5 | there ai n't no muck on the root , it were n't the root , it were washed |
| 6 | It were n't the dog I locked in the tractor-shed , that 's all I know . ’ |
| 7 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 8 | If it were still the case that affray required that the incident should take place in public , the case would be cast-iron . |
| 9 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 10 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 11 | And if it were only the future of the Conservative Party that was at stake I would probably agree that electoral chastening would be a good thing . |
| 12 | It was overwhelmingly the empire of India . |
| 13 | It was either the system or God that 's what er the position of the F B I put us in . |
| 14 | Something similar and er they came up to the , the great Pacific engines that came on and they , two of them came down in front of the stage , two of them were just a little bit higher up , and on the stage itself , there were scenes done like the hall in the Grand Central Station , New York and er they were , it was either the Ink Spots or some of these dancers that gave a performance , and it was so well put on that you could n't help being impressed by |
| 15 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 16 | It was either the carrot or the stick which helped me to complete the analysis and report on my results . |
| 17 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 18 | It was thus the house of Clicquot which placed the production of Champagne on a more sophisticated level than that of other sparkling wines . |
| 19 | The CD market in London started in 1967 with the issue of the first US dollar CD ( that is , it was strictly the euro-CD , ECD , market ) . |
| 20 | It was both the product and the size of plant that were critical . |
| 21 | They held that it was both the manager and the owners . |
| 22 | It was rather the reputation of the individual master that brought the students than the particular location or city . |
| 23 | A couple of millennia or so later it was momentarily the capital of newly freed Greece , when the Greeks broke away from the Turks in the 1820s . |
| 24 | The ecumenical movement had become better established and although it would be an exaggeration to say that the major Protestant denominations were heavily committed to a ‘ Romeward trend ’ , it was clearly the case that many church leaders were seeking better relations with the Roman Church . |
| 25 | It was clearly the desire of young , ambitious civil servants to receive revenue as opposed to judicial appointments , for career prospects were much better in the revenue department . |
| 26 | I , I think it was largely the way most girls were treated . |
| 27 | It was largely the prospect of what lay just beneath the surface : the coral reef . |
| 28 | Perhaps , the researchers conclude , it was largely the need to get safely from tree to tree that stimulated the evolution of such a clever ape high up in the trees . |
| 29 | It was largely the desire to create a diversion away from Flanders for Marlborough and his triumphant armies that led to new plans for a Jacobite invasion of the British Isles . |
| 30 | At the new Eagle Building it was largely the result of public consultation into the demolition of the listed building . |