Example sentences of "it was [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head saw a possible solution in a more flexible points allocation for ancillary assistance than that which was LEA policy , but recognised that it was principally a matter of lack of finance . |
| 2 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 3 | At best it was either a publicity stunt designed help sell third-rate books or a neat piece of disinformation put out by the Russians in order to sow confusion amongst the West 's intelligence agencies . |
| 4 | It was either a passage or a long , thin room , a stone-walled storage space lined with gunpowder plot-style wooden barrels . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 6 | Well we thought it was either a rent man or somebody collecting for the council . |
| 7 | I remember that when we were there we went on th , it was either a boat or something ? |
| 8 | It was either a penalty , or a goal kick ( if the ref thought that the forward had intentionally got tangled up ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Richards got the tackle on Bunce and it was either a penalty for us , or a scrum with a turnover to the Lions . |
| 10 | We are not quite sure who sold the business to XY Ltd as a going concern — presumably it was either a receiver of AB Ltd or AB 's directors prior to liquidation . |
| 11 | It was either an accident or he 'd committed suicide . |
| 12 | It was thus a relief to overhear The Angelic Conversation ( ReVision , PG , rental ) , whose background noise is provided by Dame Judi Dench drooling sonorously over Shakespearean sonnets . |
| 13 | It was thus a revolution in British fiscal policy which Chamberlain advocated in the name of Empire ; and from his Birmingham speech in May 1903 until he was struck down three years later his advocacy of tariff reform and his Imperial theme dominated British policies . |
| 14 | It was thus a stage towards the releasing of vassals from the oaths of loyalty and obedience . |
| 15 | It was thus a boon to the cause that one of its earliest recruits was T.E . |
| 16 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 17 | It was equally a battle over the new technology , as well as over the future of book printing in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | It was self-consciously a reversal of the Versailles policy , after the first world war , of exacting war reparations from the defeated . |
| 19 | It was both a question and a statement and we both smiled , for we both knew the answer . |
| 20 | It was both a defence of translation of the Bible and an assertion of the loyalty of the Reformers to the state . |
| 21 | It was both a health resort and a winter retreat for the rich and influential of the day . |
| 22 | Here in the Abu Dhabi/Al Ain area it was both a statement and a signature used only by those whose lives were rooted in the place . |
| 23 | To me it was both an ending and a beginning . |
| 24 | It was both an acknowledgement and an easing of the exquisite — almost intolerable tension that had been built up between them . |
| 25 | It was rather a kind of oligarchy , with a strong hereditary element in its composition . |
| 26 | It was rather a struggle between housing classes for access to the central scarce resource , namely suburban housing . |
| 27 | it would have been taken , it was rather a pity . |
| 28 | Honey was sweet and gentle from the day she was born , so it was rather a surprise when she came home from the horse breaker with a completely changed personality . |
| 29 | It was rather a façade behind which classes and individuals with a vested interest in weak and decentralized government could entrench themselves , and also a mere mechanical adherence to established practices and institutions . |
| 30 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |