Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , that 's right I think it were the first ones to come out |
| 2 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 3 | I think it were the Irish Times or something , or the Irish Betting Times or something like that , and she was the only one who did n't draw a horse , and she thought oh well that 's it , no chance . |
| 4 | Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away . |
| 5 | Within it were the strong echoes of the disgust with politics that McCarthyism had induced , and the early excitement of the Beats and their progeny in Greenwich Village . |
| 6 | Hence economic growth and cultural change ( post-Fordism and postmodernism ) constitutes as it were the two sides of these new post-industrial urban middle classes . |
| 7 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 8 | Pitted against it were the great princes , some with ambition to achieve political and legal independence of the crown . |
| 9 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 10 | While his loyalism gave him urban working-class support , it was the rural Protestants who were most receptive to his evangelical emphases and who made a seat like Bannside obviously attractive . |
| 11 | It was the unreconstructed Communists who continued in charge . |
| 12 | One such change arose because , although in general it was the better houses that were sold , some tenants bought houses , without survey , that were in poor structural condition ( especially prefabricated buildings ) and were soon experiencing difficulties paying for repairs and maintenance . |
| 13 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 14 | It was the two boys who s who set up put it into action . |
| 15 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 16 | It was the two shots fired from this hand on that summer morning in the Balkans that ignited the smouldering embers of war in Europe and led to the fire that caused the conflagration that created the holocaust . |
| 17 | For it was the complex machinations of these processes that provided the ‘ data ’ on crime and criminals that positivist criminologists used to build their theories . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 19 | Indeed , claim Thatcherites , it was the Blue Chips who plotted her downfall in November 1990 . |
| 20 | In 1987 , it was the paramilitary extortionists of the UDA who came under scrutiny . |
| 21 | Amitha : It was the Equal Opportunities Policy which cut through all the contradictions . |
| 22 | But they were unsystematic and not sustained , and form only a minor qualification to the general proposition : it was the concerted efforts of Barbarossa in the 1150s and 1160s which first seriously checked the spirit of independent prosperity . |
| 23 | The ESP boys would say that it was the telepathic radiations of the audience that enabled Harvey to do that dance . |
| 24 | The basin went round again , and this time it was the laughing women guests who were contributing , with squeals of mock protest , urging Marie-Christine to lower her skirt again . |
| 25 | Though their general concentration on observation of the material world was thought to encourage atheism , it was the new philosophers ' revival of Epicurus ' atomistic conception of the world which particularly aroused criticism . |
| 26 | If the radical tendency of his lectures brought him enemies , it was the new friends he was making who were to prove more important . |
| 27 | It was the new owners ' intention to restore a more barn-like appearance . |
| 28 | It was the first Championships where athletes could receive subventions ( appearance money paid into a trust fund for the athlete ) . |
| 29 | When the house was built , it was the first dolls ' house to have both passenger and service lifts . |
| 30 | I think there was only one because they only had one , and I got one white cos they only had one I think , it was the other colours I 'm sure I 'd got two of , I must of done , cos I mean I 've used a lot myself do n't I ? |