Example sentences of "it [was/were] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the relationship is treated as if it were a one-to-many relationship , but the records on the ‘ many side ’ are duplicated because each record can be related to several parents . |
| 2 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 3 | That Boulestin recorded the menu and the occasion indicates , one deduces , that it was no such thing : |
| 4 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 5 | As was his normal practice he sold one of the hire cars when it was no more use to the business . |
| 6 | The damaged one was still working , although it was a little way out of alignment . |
| 7 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 8 | It was the former Home Secretary who first noticed the deck chair , its legs awash with the incoming tide , part-hidden by the Victorian metal-work of the pier . |
| 9 | It was the latter view which was accepted both by Nolan J. at first instance , and by Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 10 | It was the latter suggestion , and how it was put into practice , that has enslaved the working man to this day . |
| 11 | It was the latter fact that got him so many commissions from the Church of England , who abhorred the Catholic leanings of Pugin and his stable . |
| 12 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 13 | It was the same look . |
| 14 | It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it . |
| 15 | And it was the same bloke each time . |
| 16 | Sue was on about her daughter living with that bloke like , I do n't know if it was the same bloke , I just du n no , yes it is , yes it is , it 's got ta be the one , when she broke her shoulder , it 's got ta be , anyway he got no job and Sarah got this good job apparently wherever it is , I ca n't remember where it was |
| 17 | It was the same waggon yes but it was different driver and er not sure whether they taken the slates themselves there now . |
| 18 | It was the same coin that Dad always gave him , every time he went away . |
| 19 | The area was still packed at weekends , despite a frenetic quality to the enjoyment ; and , it was the same sun and the same lake as it had always been , dotted with the yachts of the rich . |
| 20 | ‘ No — I remember , it was Taylor , because it was the same day you came in , and I remember thinking it was a coincidence . |
| 21 | Yes , it was the same man . |
| 22 | It was the same man who built Sovovy mill in neo-Gothic style . |
| 23 | She paused before continuing , ‘ You are sure it was the same man ? , |
| 24 | And … and it was the same man who … who took off my cap that . |
| 25 | It was the same man . |
| 26 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
| 27 | He did n't think it was the same man . |
| 28 | It was the same man who had spoken to Maurice . |
| 29 | But it was the same man … last night 's rescuer and her new temporary employer were one and the same … |
| 30 | They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’ |