Example sentences of "it [was/were] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Er it was all home security systems . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They it was all piece work , there . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | There was no snow ploughs in those days , it was all hand cut if they were cutting drifts it was manual labour . |
| 9 | And the week before it was all Christmas stuff was still in there . |
| 10 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 11 | ‘ It was that truck driver who was intent on murder , ’ Monica interjected grimly . |
| 12 | But rapture it was that Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1990 when Ian McGeechan 's tartan lads won the Grand Slam , the Triple Crown , the Calcutta Cup and the hearts of all of us numb with tear-stained joy in the stands and terracings of Murrayfield . |
| 13 | It was that murder mystery thing on last night was n't it ? |
| 14 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 15 | But shortly before the break , it was former Hereford player Paul Wheeler who put Chester two ahead . |
| 16 | The ghost of Linfield past has been laid to rest and it was former team manager Eric Bowyer who began the exorcism — in somewhat bizarre circumstances . |
| 17 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 18 | I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing . |
| 19 | It was some country mansion in Oxfordshire you know ? |
| 20 | It was this success story which prompted the Prime Minister 's Office to inform Laura that her name was on the forthcoming list of Queen 's Birthday Honours ; she was to be offered the OBE if this was ‘ agreeable ’ . |
| 21 | It was this nightmare image of panic and despair that she kept in her mind 's eye as Simon talked his way confidently through his own philosophy of life . |
| 22 | It was this second man who now asked the first , the last , question . |
| 23 | It was this second scheme that Franco was inclined to favour and whose realization he began to turn over in his mind in the autumn of 1936 . |
| 24 | It was this second part of the deal that Judge Holland rejected , stunning environmentalists as well as the company . |
| 25 | Indeed , it was this government action which encouraged employers to attempt to reduce the wages of workers by 10 per cent ; causing the coal lock-out/strike and General Strike of 1926 . |
| 26 | Indeed , it was this government action which encouraged employers to attempt to reduce the wages of workers by 10 per cent ; causing the coal lock-out/strike and General Strike of 1926 . |
| 27 | It was this Washington Department which enforced the restrictions on strategic exports to the Soviet Union and its friends . |
| 28 | It would seem reasonable to suggest that it was this waking preoccupation of his that Qused his subconscious to produce the relevant dream . |
| 29 | It was this background knowledge that influenced the way in which Phil Barlow , the deputy head responsible for the curriculum , perceived the post and the appointment , as he explained to me : |
| 30 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |