Example sentences of "it was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was as the great leader in efforts to save the environment and the natural treasures of the world that he will be longest remembered . |
| 2 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 4 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 5 | It was about the only piece of hearts and minds they did . |
| 6 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 7 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 8 | Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose it was about the overdue ship . ’ |
| 10 | Banfield journeyed to the hinterland of southern Italy to try to find out what it was about the original culture of Italian immigrants that so retarded their sociological development . |
| 11 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 12 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 13 | I remember reading this book it was partly , it was about the German Navy |
| 14 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 15 | " Actually , it was through the female line , " he began , wondering how much he meant to explain , but they had ceased to listen to him . |
| 16 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 17 | It was through the French pub that he met the gallery owner , poet and denizen of Bohemia , Victor Musgrave . |
| 18 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 19 | So it was with the other hostages . |
| 20 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |
| 21 | But when family allowances were finally introduced in 1945 , it was with the primary intention of holding down wages and hence inflation . |
| 22 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 23 | It was with the new strength born of unity then that the Edinburgh Typographical Society presented the employers with its memorial on women workers in November 1909 . |
| 24 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 25 | It was with the greatest relief we soon heard of the surrender of the German Generals to Field Marshal Montgomery . |
| 26 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 27 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 28 | It was with the volatile Ivanisevic that he had won the French Open doubles title two years ago . |
| 29 | It was at the 9th hole in the second round of the World Championship of Women 's Golf that this recently acquired touch of caution came into its own . |
| 30 | It was at the southern end of ‘ the terraces ’ one of the older residential areas of the town , and not far from the Burgers ' . |