Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An ’ it were just the same then . |
| 2 | Er er it were just the same on a motorcycle the faster he 'll go the better they 'd like it ! |
| 3 | The vendor will then be in a similar position as if it were still the original tenant under the lease and it will remain liable if an assignee defaults unless the landlord releases to vendor in the licence to assign . |
| 4 | On the contrary , they saw the empire as the basis of Britain 's claim to world power status , and their commitment to exporting self-government — which they wrote about as if it were merely the current expression of the British administrative genius — was secondary to this . |
| 5 | It was either the Grand or an early night . |
| 6 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | It was thus the disruptive potential of the queen 's family which Gloucester chose to stress in justifying his action . |
| 8 | It was thus the disruptive potential of the queen 's family which Gloucester chose to stress in justifying his action . |
| 9 | It was thus the very strength of the state , the power of major government departments such as the Environment or Education and Science over the somewhat ragged army of local-government officials , dons , bishops , editors , and men and women of letters that contemporaries noted . |
| 10 | For an essential paradox of the bourgeois family was that it was both the privileged location of emotionality and love , the only source in respectable ideology where it could be tolerated , and simultaneously an effective policeman of sexual behaviour . |
| 11 | Adverse weather conditions , however , caused it to withdraw into shelter and while it was away the French fleet , consisting of eight sail of the line and 24 frigates under Admiral de Forbin , managed , on 8 March , to get out to sea unintercepted . |
| 12 | In my own opinion it was largely the former . ) |
| 13 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 14 | Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) . |
| 15 | The miners ' strike which lasted from March 1984 to March 1985 was not the only example of industrial conflict in Britain in the past two decades , but it was easily the longest and the most violent . |
| 16 | Until the late 1950s it was practically the only effective remedy for a most distressing disorder . |
| 17 | Well it was practically the same as he did at district was n't |
| 18 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 19 | It was neither the sensible shopping-basket that men bought for their wives , nor the flashy jobs rich men bought for their mistresses . |
| 20 | It was nearly the same as writing a letter home from school . |
| 21 | It was evidently the Conservative intention to associate their campaign as closely as possible with the personality of the wartime leader . |
| 22 | ‘ But it was mostly the other thing , that he 'd had to sweat all his life and she 'd never done a hand 's turn . |
| 23 | And I remembered it was here the dumb woman lived . |
| 24 | Men huddled together in groups , deep in earnest conversations ; it was here the real trading was done . |
| 25 | It was n't just the slight pain that stopped her sleeping , it was also the mental shock of what she had done . |
| 26 | It was also the first occasion on which the bishop of Rome is known to have invoked the text of Matthew 16 : 18 to justify his primatial jurisdiction . |
| 27 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |
| 28 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 29 | It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield . |
| 30 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |