Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either small-time crookery or the docks , and I thought , well , the crookery 's better , really . |
| 2 | As for the member of Alcoholics Anonymous , there could be no compromise solution : it was either total abstinence or total relapse . |
| 3 | It was either this flat or nothing . |
| 4 | It was thus that radicalism became , historically speaking , respectable . |
| 5 | It was strictly other ranks — a vast congregation of privates . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , this jurisdiction was not so transferred and vested in the High Court , then it was equally common ground that it would have been preserved by section 12 of the Act of 1873 , which provides , so far as is relevant : |
| 7 | As she would notice from the heading on the notepaper he was in the French Foreign Legion and it was fucking tough work , but there were some good mates around him . |
| 8 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 9 | You went to work by yourself but you had to be taken to the hospital , and when I was on Martin it was right next door . |
| 10 | Of course it was over some years back . |
| 11 | Er of course , it was rather dangerous work , really , because it was stuff we was dealing with . |
| 12 | It was rather late notice to book a table . ’ |
| 13 | In the case of the Mother and Child scheme , it was rather through withdrawal from the scene that first the politicians and later the churchmen avoided further trouble . |
| 14 | The , it was officially launched in London yesterday at Ken 's House , unfortunately neither of the two officer 's could go , it was rather short notice , but it has been officially launched now as a national thing . |
| 15 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 16 | For a further 20 per cent , the gap was between one month and six months and for the remaining 5 per cent it was over six months . |
| 17 | It was over thirty years ago . |
| 18 | To take a genuine historical example , it was over seventy years before Copernicus 's prediction about the phases of Venus was found to be correct , and several centuries before the Copernican prediction that the fixed stars should exhibit parallax was confirmed . |
| 19 | It was over two years after I had subtracted Blyth with an adder that I found an opportunity to get rid of Paul . |
| 20 | ‘ It was over two months ago that I was approached about the job , terms were agreed and I was a part of Bill Fox 's presidential platform . |
| 21 | ‘ It was over eight metres long , ’ added Mrs Lomax . |
| 22 | Well a bit more than eight pounds actually , it was over eight pound over half a stone . |
| 23 | It was over seven pound . |
| 24 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
| 25 | It was over three weeks since Molly had last written , and the delay had angered her mother . |
| 26 | It was over three months now since she had known the sensation of being held in a man 's arms . |
| 27 | In 1974 the official rate for the dollar was 17 dinars ; by early 1988 it was over 1,300 dinars . |
| 28 | It was over 60 years ago that Sir Jesse Boot ( later Lord Trent ) , founder of the Boots Company , made a magnificent gift of land and money which enabled the University College to move from Nottingham town centre . |
| 29 | It was over 1,000 feet high . |
| 30 | It was over 3 weeks before her body was discovered dumped on wasteland in Hertfordshire . |