Example sentences of "it [was/were] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was of the pilot , this time without the plane . |
| 2 | Consequently it was of the type which is highly praised |
| 3 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 4 | There was one particular painting which caught my eye , it was of the sea at midnight , with a full moon above it , in the sky . |
| 5 | This is as true of the patrician Tories and the outraged-of- Tunbridge Wells brigade to which The Daily Telegraph under Worsthorne 's editorship was still directing its leaders as it was of The Guardian 's public sector-employed army of veterans from 1968 whose retreat was traced across the pages of MT throughout the 80s . |
| 6 | It was of the kind that one is warned against sleeping upon , but I knew she did sleep upon it . |
| 7 | It was of the man in the cemetery coming after her with her mother 's bread knife . |
| 8 | It was of the vriki and the two cups on the bench . |
| 9 | If we talked , it was of the food . |
| 10 | It was of the essence that abbot and monks should be able to stay within its walls unless compelled to travel about the business of the house . |
| 11 | Much of it was of the Louis XIV period ( which has a much more limited market than Louis XVI furniture ) , and in contrast to the freshness of the Patiño lots , had mostly been recently bought at high prices . |