Example sentences of "it was [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Boulestin recorded the menu and the occasion indicates , one deduces , that it was no such thing : |
| 2 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 3 | As was his normal practice he sold one of the hire cars when it was no more use to the business . |
| 4 | The damaged one was still working , although it was a little way out of alignment . |
| 5 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 6 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 7 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 8 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 9 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 10 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 11 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 12 | It was a few moments ' work to have her sitting with her baggage in a gig , to crown the blot with a ridiculous hat , and to write the word CAMBRIDGE on a downward-sloping signpost . |
| 13 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 14 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 15 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |
| 16 | Certainly more confident now than it was a few days ago . |
| 17 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 18 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 19 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 21 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
| 22 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |
| 23 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 24 | It was a few years back . |
| 25 | It was a few seconds before she realised that it was coming from her . |
| 26 | I saw the rolled-up rug under the workbench and it was a few seconds before I realized that she was n't inside it any more . |
| 27 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 28 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 29 | It was the former Home Secretary who first noticed the deck chair , its legs awash with the incoming tide , part-hidden by the Victorian metal-work of the pier . |
| 30 | And if anything fell into the category of being impossible it was the former BR standard pacific Duke of Gloucester . |