Example sentences of "it was [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either this flat or nothing . |
| 2 | It was thus that radicalism became , historically speaking , respectable . |
| 3 | It was clearly some sort of code . |
| 4 | It was around that time that I spotted an advertisement for CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) in the personal column of the Sunday Times . |
| 5 | It was around that time that I began to foster the notion that information was being withheld , that somebody was not telling me everything . |
| 6 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 7 | It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 8 | It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's . |
| 9 | It was around this time that ‘ queer-bashing ’ began in Bath , as in the rest of Britain . |
| 10 | It was around this time that Gregory began to miss concerts spasmodically because he wanted to stay in Leeds for personal reasons . |
| 11 | It was around this time that I first discovered the darker side of ornithology — the effect of man on the environment . |
| 12 | Yet it was around this time that he settled for being an actor . |
| 13 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 14 | As noted earlier , it was around this time that the appointment of a new teacher led to the consideration of a comprehensive study skills package from another school . |
| 15 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 16 | It was around this time that the twinkle in the planner 's eye was transformed into a 20-storey tower-block . |
| 17 | It was n't much help . |
| 18 | It was n't much fun , but we did it , and that was the main thing . |
| 19 | ‘ But unfortunately — I suppose it is n't surprising in the circumstances — Stephen is almost pathologically jealous of me , so it was n't much fun . |
| 20 | It was n't much fun being accused of something , and being unable to defend oneself . |
| 21 | You said it was n't much cop |
| 22 | It was n't much consolation , but it was the best mental panacea she could come up with . |
| 23 | It was n't that money was being stolen or sneaked — everything was down on paper . |
| 24 | Now er it was n't that night I said it , it was afterwards so I said what did you think about the concert then ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to convince him that it was n't that mob that took a shot at him . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 27 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 28 | ‘ No , it was n't that way at all . |
| 29 | and they have a look and then they say , Oh I 'm sure it was n't that way . |
| 30 | ‘ It is n't true , ’ she denied vehemently , ‘ it was n't that way at all ; it was just — ’ She broke off . |