Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |
| 2 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
| 3 | Sir , if you do come to the view , however , that one or both of these sites may have some as it were residual greenbelt functions , then we ask you to bear in mind the matters raised , in particular Mrs 's appendix nine , about the need in the longer term , that is , beyond two thousand and six in particular , for a strategic reserve . |
| 4 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 5 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 6 | I do n't know exactly what it was , but er er it was potted meat sandwiches er and tea . |
| 7 | You mentioned er , earlier about yo , the fact that you were surprised that it was fifteen year olds , and that was quite young |
| 8 | Oh no it was n't , it was five currant buns was n't it ? |
| 9 | The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras . |
| 10 | But it was skewed development priorities that forced people into a continued dependence on livestock in the first place and huge , often foreign-owned ranches that pushed those people and their herds onto fragile , marginal land . |
| 11 | It was strange seeing nuns outside . |
| 12 | But after that , well , it was all sea breezes . |
| 13 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 14 | And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this . |
| 15 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
| 16 | It was pointless making friends who would reject the ‘ new me ’ in the future , so I stopped making friends . |
| 17 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 18 | He said again that it was great being friends with them . |
| 19 | He 'd smile and say it was great being friends with you . |
| 20 | It was pure restoration materials |
| 21 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
| 22 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 23 | The legislation that came out as a result of that then was absolutely sure , you know that it was copper bottom insurances given given that er legislation would prevent accidents of that nature again . |
| 24 | When I was a child he was selling insurance , then he was offloading imported sheepskin coats in the London street markets , then it was free range eggs . |
| 25 | Dr Elizabeth Elliott , who works at Darlington Memorial Hospital , said it was important health services in Darlington and Bishop Auckland remained within their own areas . |
| 26 | It was these mineral riches which enabled so many Latin American railway companies to build grandiose stations for a passenger traffic which formed an insignificant part of their revenues , to flatter a national vanity which demanded a new ‘ civic excess ’ in the period . |
| 27 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |