Example sentences of "it was [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well it was beside the point because you , you had an appointment did n't you ? |
| 2 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 3 | He was close enough to hear the skid of rubber on tarmac , and then it was past the building and away out of sight . |
| 4 | It was amidst the glare from flash-happy Paparazzi and marauding tv camera crews that Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced its alliance with Eo Corp , the Mountain View , California-based developer of the 440 and 880 personal communicators ( CI No 2,124 ) . |
| 5 | No I think it was down the side I think he said . |
| 6 | It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission . |
| 7 | Hence it was outside the scope of s 6 of the Act , which applied only where interest was due in respect of a particular period . |
| 8 | In that case the remedy required — that the consent of the Attorney-General be obtained for the institution of any prosecution for criminal libel : see p. 484 — was one which it was outside the power of the court to introduce . |
| 9 | I saw Lukic launch into the tackle and it looked , for all the world , like it was going to end up as a foul but I could n't see if it was outside the area . |
| 10 | It was outside the fence , half-surrounded by columns belonging to the grounds of a former house . |
| 11 | Oh my god I do n't know what erm oh well it was toward the end of the week was n't it ? |
| 12 | It was off the fortune teller . |
| 13 | He actually picked up Angy 's phone … it was off the hook and covered in blood as if she 'd tried to use it to call for help . |
| 14 | Oh it was off the machine ? |
| 15 | Increasingly , the monarchy was involved in courtly display , and it was as the administrator of such functions that Cawarden was to win fame , providing costumes for men and horses and complicated scenic devices . |
| 16 | No man at his age ever had a straighter back , that we were sure of , straight and strong , it was as the ground ash stick he always carried . |
| 17 | Where the church impinged it was as the representative of property and coercion rather than as a meaningful organisation . |
| 18 | Significantly , it was as the population recovered that one again sees widespread movements of social unrest . |
| 19 | Asked by the judge why the question was relevant , Mr Carman said it was about the development of the friendship between the politician and the producer . |
| 20 | It was about the idea that a redwood was somehow sacred , that its fundamental identity should remain beyond our control . |
| 21 | It has been romanticized as a tradition of public service when much of it was about the protection of vested interests . |
| 22 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 23 | I thought they might be going to pay their rents , for I was told it was about the settling-time . |
| 24 | Tallis thought it was about the middle of the day . |
| 25 | It was about the relationship between the Government and the transport industries and the Government and the rail industry in particular . |
| 26 | DeVore returned the bow , then turned , intrigued , wondering what it was about the boy that could so thoroughly spook the seemingly-imperturbable Douglas . |
| 27 | Just thought I 'd told you for cos from the erm , title i , you would n't think it was about the navy . |
| 28 | It was about the age when I started thinking about things . |
| 29 | If I 'd known how important it was about the house — I did n't understand until I got your note . |
| 30 | what was the one about the erm oh it was about the assembling of the gun |