Example sentences of "it [was/were] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 2 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 3 | At that time it was but one element in the whole decision-making process of what was I going to do with my life . |
| 4 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |
| 5 | Catch weights , so do n't matters what it was but that man who was weighing them he got no brains , if one was overweight and go down , the next one got ta be underweight and he 'd take that off that and put it on that , he was so quick , wh that 's what he , he was a good checker , they were good men then |
| 6 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 7 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 8 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 9 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 10 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 11 | And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration . |
| 12 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 13 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 14 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 15 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 16 | And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks . |
| 17 | Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started |
| 18 | It was because this undertaking was the equivalent of a court order and was fully enforceable by the court that he was convicted of the offence . |
| 19 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |
| 20 | In firm B this was because the senior partner had the larger company clients ; in firm D it was because larger clients were more rarely involved in probate matters . |
| 21 | According to the radical Right , it was because free market forces had been stultified by the welfare state and the managed economy … . |
| 22 | If ideas as such were discounted , it was because imaginative literature , in its richness and blend of diversity and harmony , had other things to offer . |
| 23 | Possibly it was because most people who visited Wilder 's Wilderness expressed the wish to return . |
| 24 | Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend ! |