Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were the first time I ever heard him do it . |
| 2 | In the evening they went walking , hand in hand , as if it were the first love for each of them . |
| 3 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 4 | yes , that 's right I think it were the first ones to come out |
| 5 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 6 | I think it were the Irish Times or something , or the Irish Betting Times or something like that , and she was the only one who did n't draw a horse , and she thought oh well that 's it , no chance . |
| 7 | However , some 25 feet down there is a side-door , which opens into passage 24 as if it were the eastern door in the Throne Room . |
| 8 | Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away . |
| 9 | Within it were the strong echoes of the disgust with politics that McCarthyism had induced , and the early excitement of the Beats and their progeny in Greenwich Village . |
| 10 | Hence economic growth and cultural change ( post-Fordism and postmodernism ) constitutes as it were the two sides of these new post-industrial urban middle classes . |
| 11 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 12 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 13 | Pitted against it were the great princes , some with ambition to achieve political and legal independence of the crown . |
| 14 | Asked about Labour 's attitude if it were the largest party , Mr Gould said on London Weekend Television that Mr Kinnock would accept the invitation to form a Government , would draw up a legislative programme and would put it to Parliament . |
| 15 | The prompt LIFESPAN Breakout will appear at the top left-hand edge of the screen and to all intents and purposes this can be treated as if it were the DCL $ prompt . |
| 16 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 17 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 18 | Twenty five years later , Bevan expressed his hostility to the EEC in terms redolent with the memory of 1930 : ‘ Are we now expected to go back almost a century , reject socialism , and clasp free trade to our bosom as though it were the only solution of our social evils ? ’ |
| 19 | America has lost patience with the Vance-Owen plan , and now rattles the ‘ lift and strike ’ strategy as if it were the only weapon in its armoury . |
| 20 | The present system , might be defensible if it were the only means by which the Chancellor could sustain tax revenue from alcoholic drinks in real terms . |
| 21 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 22 | Overlooking the point that if it were the latter he could clarify the matter on the next round , he settled for a direct raise to Four Hearts . |
| 23 | This is a penal measure and the courts must take care to see that this former expression is not treated as if it were the latter . ’ |
| 24 | She glared at the telephone dial as if it were the young man 's face and held the receiver away from her ear . |
| 25 | Er I do n't know whether it were the young lad that comes in , or whether it was Jes that were telling me . |
| 26 | In the typical scenario erm you have the parents as villains of the peace , you have the children or the child as being abused , you have ah typically in the er as it were the stereotypical scenario , you have the father doing the abuse , you have a certain amount of responsibility pointed at the mother . |
| 27 | Wullie Robertson , who was bleeding at the nose , was carrying a banner wrapped around a pole , as if it were the regimental standard of the Gordons . |
| 28 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 29 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 30 | It 's a , I mean it were the same at Christmas were n't it ? |