Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 2 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 3 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 4 | It was at the latter that Fleischmann worked , initially as a fellow sponsored by Ia , the major chemical company , and then as a lecturer . |
| 5 | you found at the Country Dancing , it was different people that was at the Country Dancing than what than what it was at the more at the the ordinary dances . |
| 6 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 7 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 8 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 9 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 10 | In Guiseley it was on the latter , the Feast of St Oswald in August , but both custom and festival are now held on the first Sunday in July due to the large number of families being away on holiday in August . |
| 11 | It was on the same wall as the door , to the left of it and just beside the telephone . |
| 12 | It was on the same road we are following now . ’ |
| 13 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 14 | I reali I realized it was on the same day Mark . |
| 15 | Not all of these rays will have left the object when it was of the same size . |
| 16 | It was to the former that he believed himself to be responding . |
| 17 | ‘ And oh , what a coincidence that it was to the same part of the country ! ’ she butted in sarcastically . |
| 18 | So it was to the same mortuary as Jacob that the undertaker 's van took the two coffins . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 20 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 21 | It was during the latter part of the 19th century that Tewkesbury 's commercial decline began for , at the time of building of Healing 's substantial mills , many of the smaller cottage-based trades disappeared . |
| 22 | I believe that , as we come out of the recession , we shall find that British industry is much stronger than it was during the same period at the beginning of the 1980s , and that it will prosper mightily during the remainder of the 1990s . |
| 23 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 24 | It was in the former role that , with the governor and two other directors , he attended the queen on 15 June 1710 to desire on the bank 's behalf that she make no further ministerial changes following the replacement of Charles Spencer , third Earl of Sunderland , by William Legge , first Earl of Dartmouth [ qq.v . ] . |
| 25 | It was the fastest hundred in a Test match in England since the heady days of 1981 , and as a gambler 's last throw , it was in the same class as Botham 's 149 . |
| 26 | Yesterday , Mr Dubcek 's name was chanted at least as loudly as it was in the same square over 21 years ago . |
| 27 | Yesterday , Mr Dubcek 's name was chanted at least as loudly as it was in the same square over 21 years ago . |
| 28 | It was in the same colours as the bunting , red , white and blue . |
| 29 | With a shudder she realized that it was in the same block of buildings as Bartholomew Close . |
| 30 | ‘ It was in the same place with the same registrar but this time everyone was there , including me . ’ |