Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 2 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 3 | Finally , it was Blue Ash Farm . |
| 4 | It was nice roast dinner ! |
| 5 | The membership ban would make sense if it was Labour Party policy to expel Northern Ireland from the UK immediately after coming to power . |
| 6 | Unfortunately it was classic summer weather . |
| 7 | If the plaintiff 's solicitor has to swear an affidavit of service he must specifically state that first class post was used , otherwise the court will presume it was second class post . |
| 8 | Maj Waters said : ‘ It was well-aimed artillery fire , carefully avoiding UN vehicles . |
| 9 | It was recent history Goreng was most avid for . |
| 10 | It was appropriate warm-up garb , as the Run Barbados Marathon was to go from the point of this historical settlement ( established 1627 ) to Sam Lord 's Castle , built with the profits from a wrecker 's booty . |
| 11 | Er it was all home security systems . |
| 12 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 13 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |
| 14 | On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies . |
| 15 | They it was all piece work , there . |
| 16 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 17 | There was no snow ploughs in those days , it was all hand cut if they were cutting drifts it was manual labour . |
| 18 | And the week before it was all Christmas stuff was still in there . |
| 19 | It was good drying weather . |
| 20 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 21 | In this respect it was good sales promotion , a catalogue of positive persuasion as the following quotation shows : |
| 22 | Unlike Gillens a fixed rate for the week , it was then piece work . |
| 23 | It was sheer self deception had me conned ! |
| 24 | It was sheer gut instinct . |
| 25 | I just I just saw it was pure virgin olive oil and I thought oh that 'll do |
| 26 | It was best balsa wood of course , not that the Indians could know , but I duly went down poleaxed and Matt started pretending it was an accident . |
| 27 | It was late on Friday evening in London ; in the cities of the western Pacific — Tokyo , Hong Kong , Seoul , Vladivostok , Sydney — it was early Saturday morning . |
| 28 | For an artisan elite it was skilled labour power sold at a premium , but for most men and almost all working women it was unskilled labour . |
| 29 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 30 | ‘ It was that truck driver who was intent on murder , ’ Monica interjected grimly . |