Example sentences of "it was really [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was really no concern of hers whether it was business or personal .
2 It was really no surprise that Brian was taken out of the room that afternoon .
3 in Australia , you know , I mean it was really a competition
4 It was really a battle of wills .
5 Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling
6 The ‘ Davni Chasy ’ issue was important because it helped both the band and RCA learn a great deal about each other , although it is probably closer to the truth to say it was really a case of RCA simply learning more about the staunch and pedantic attitude of The Wedding Present .
7 because at that meeting you can imagine that twenty people gathering then you end up not really making any decisions , far too many people , there was a lot discussed and aired and it concerns expressed and it was a case , and I 'm going from recollection here , it was really a case of let's go away and think about it and calm down and look at it rationally
8 No it was really a case of things were residents
9 It was really er , it was really a penance going to church .
10 It was really a trip of a lifetime .
11 The barrio was a place where I felt freer than anywhere else in Salamanca , for it was really a land outside the law , where outcasts at last could feel at home .
12 It was really a success .
13 Well although it was so near , it was really a mining district and ninety percent of the boys We were at separate schools by the way , the ground floors were boys , from the age of seven upwards , till fourteen .
14 Though it was really a bar , Le Rosebud , down a side street in Montparnasse ) .
15 What year did your fathers er cy wh it was really a bicycle shop that he had but i
16 It was really a scent , the aroma of spice , which first drew the West 's attention to the Eastern islands .
17 I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’
18 Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now .
19 ( The places we saw & visited were mind-boggling but it was really a family visit to see & , their daughters , sons-in-law & grand-children … all boys ) .
20 It was really a front for Uncle Titch and Grandad 's Great Fairground Enterprise .
21 It 's only later on , when you look back at something you 've done , that you see it was really a milestone and you could have gone off in some quite different direction .
22 If it was really the case that he did not mention the power of attorney when speaking to her on that occasion and left her in ignorance of her responsibilities and status , his failure shows , in my opinion , such a want of care as to preclude him from relying , in support of his non est factum plea , on her ignorance of the power .
23 It was really the loss of that one large contract which finished off the company , until then the factory had been fully committed ’ said Mr Madden .
24 Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black .
25 It was really an adaptation for people of the much earlier sledge used for transporting wine casks .
26 Thus , when Intel designed the 80486 processor , it was really an amalgam of the 386 processor and 387 maths co-processor into one package , together with some go-faster bits and bobs .
27 Well they were chronicles , in a sense , erm there were chronicles very frequently written by interested parties , and in the case of Clarendon 's History , it was really an attempt to look back over some experiences which he himself had had , and in a way it is a , a , a classic of its kind .
28 And so far as the local issue was concerned , of course it 's the issue of tertiary education and erm this was erm a question of erm the particular Governors and parents who wanted to opt out erm doing what the Iraquis are doing with their aeroplanes and they were basically trying to fly Banbury School to a neutral country ; the idea being that erm as soon as the procedure for opting out started the Local Education Authority would not be able to use any of erm Banbury School 's land or premises in part of its plans for tertiary education in Banbury , so it was really an attempt to neutralize Banbury School .
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