Example sentences of "it was [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I passed but that w I mean it was so , it was lack of sleep and the worst thing was the chap who was marking the paper said er , when I was there , he said , I told him what had happened and he said er , did you get much sleep last night ? |
| 2 | It was lack of space on the ground floor of the Richelieu wing which I.M. Pei has redesigned in such a way as to supply maximum visibility , which inspired the department of sculpture to split their collections into French and foreign . |
| 3 | And it was lack of money that stopped them going away . |
| 4 | It was lack of emergency cover combined with the pressures of limited time that largely dictated the period of the year when training was undertaken . |
| 5 | It was lack of funding rather than lack of freedom that was the main burden for British writers and artists in this period . |
| 6 | It was cos it was change of contract . |
| 7 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 8 | But it was night of despair for Villa , who had that great championship feeling after going two points clear at the top at the weekend . |
| 9 | Say it was night for instance . |
| 10 | It was manna from heaven . |
| 11 | It was concern about prostitution , venereal disease , maternal mortality and the control of female sexuality that gave gynaecology its distinctive qualities . |
| 12 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 13 | His distorted hands were clumsy about her throat and this time as she struggled , kicking and gasping , it was skin on skin , not a fantasy attack that did no harm . |
| 14 | Once again , however , it was differentiation without separation . |
| 15 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 16 | I think it was it was day to day living and er which in some ways could be more expensive than if |
| 17 | According to law-enforcement sources , it was part of Operation Corea , an undercover operation designed to track the flow of heroin . |
| 18 | The interviewers , who are normally retired FBI men , are pretty tolerant of homosexuals ( as long as they are out of the closet , making ‘ outing ’ an official policy ) and marijuana-smoking ( as long as it was part of student experimenting ) . |
| 19 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 20 | Anyway , it was a lon , there 's a little restaurant in the road , and it was back of sort of erm Mar , if you wal , you crossed over and if you went through a little slip where it came , you came into this little arcade of shops where o , about in the road next to er |
| 21 | Again it was word of mouth : teachers told other teachers about us and I was getting offers to give talks left , right and centre . |
| 22 | As for me it was preparation for Morning Service at 10.30 am . |
| 23 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 24 | So it was kind of energy conservation , yes |
| 25 | It was kind of dark , and apparently what happened to this , towards the end of the period of parental investment , when the parents come back to feed the ducklings , they insist on the ducklings following them . |
| 26 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |
| 27 | It was abhorrence of waste of any kind of resource that motivated him . |
| 28 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 29 | It was case of trolley to lolly . ’ |
| 30 | France 's regional structure , one of the glories of the Mitterrand years , quickly became government of the local bigwigs , for the local bigwigs , by the local bigwigs , and it was rage against patronage and pork-barrelling that led to the rejection vote in the French elections . |