Example sentences of "it was [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was overwhelmingly the empire of India . |
| 2 | It was either the system or God that 's what er the position of the F B I put us in . |
| 3 | Something similar and er they came up to the , the great Pacific engines that came on and they , two of them came down in front of the stage , two of them were just a little bit higher up , and on the stage itself , there were scenes done like the hall in the Grand Central Station , New York and er they were , it was either the Ink Spots or some of these dancers that gave a performance , and it was so well put on that you could n't help being impressed by |
| 4 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 5 | It was either the carrot or the stick which helped me to complete the analysis and report on my results . |
| 6 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 7 | It was thus the house of Clicquot which placed the production of Champagne on a more sophisticated level than that of other sparkling wines . |
| 8 | The CD market in London started in 1967 with the issue of the first US dollar CD ( that is , it was strictly the euro-CD , ECD , market ) . |
| 9 | It was both the product and the size of plant that were critical . |
| 10 | They held that it was both the manager and the owners . |
| 11 | It was rather the reputation of the individual master that brought the students than the particular location or city . |
| 12 | A couple of millennia or so later it was momentarily the capital of newly freed Greece , when the Greeks broke away from the Turks in the 1820s . |
| 13 | The ecumenical movement had become better established and although it would be an exaggeration to say that the major Protestant denominations were heavily committed to a ‘ Romeward trend ’ , it was clearly the case that many church leaders were seeking better relations with the Roman Church . |
| 14 | It was clearly the desire of young , ambitious civil servants to receive revenue as opposed to judicial appointments , for career prospects were much better in the revenue department . |
| 15 | I , I think it was largely the way most girls were treated . |
| 16 | It was largely the prospect of what lay just beneath the surface : the coral reef . |
| 17 | Perhaps , the researchers conclude , it was largely the need to get safely from tree to tree that stimulated the evolution of such a clever ape high up in the trees . |
| 18 | It was largely the desire to create a diversion away from Flanders for Marlborough and his triumphant armies that led to new plans for a Jacobite invasion of the British Isles . |
| 19 | At the new Eagle Building it was largely the result of public consultation into the demolition of the listed building . |
| 20 | It was nevertheless the case that the Crimean War represented a far greater crisis than that with which the reign had begun . |
| 21 | But in the hands of people who could not add two and two together , or calculate that the weekly instalments on the dining room suite , the washing machine , the television set , the refrigerator came to most of the whole weekly income , with little over for rent , food , clothes , and every other necessity , it was practically the root of all evil from which could grow debts , family quarrels , rent arrears , eviction and even worse disaster . |
| 22 | It was formerly the village school , sadly closed in 1961 . |
| 23 | It was formerly the Leslie Palace , built by a Scottish mercenary who , in the Thirty Years ' War , was implicated in the murder of Wallenstein , one of the most powerful men in Bohemia . |
| 24 | Where the principle object of a Bill was money , it was formerly the practice for it to be made the subject of a debate in the Commons upon a resolution before the Bill was read a first time . |
| 25 | She bit back her anger , for it was neither the time nor the place to start an argument . |
| 26 | It was nearly the middle of July before all was quiet again . |
| 27 | It was nearly the end of her shift , Pepita looked about her . |
| 28 | It was instead the product of a partnership between a county council which provided industrial estates and infrastructure , a district council which provided public sector housing and infrastructure and two major developer builders working in tandem who provided a very large element of private housing . |
| 29 | " Oral " was often used by the writers of a scheme interchangeably with " mental " to refer to a test which required pupils to work out answers mentally although it was normally the teacher who performed the oral task of reading out the questions ; the pupil 's task being aural and written . |
| 30 | It was normally the practice for writers like Macpherson to stress that the movies had grown directly out of the ‘ dime ’ or ‘ yellow-back ’ novel . |