Example sentences of "it was [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came through and it was blue lights from wall to wall … |
| 2 | Pam reckons it was thirty pounds . |
| 3 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 4 | Thank you ‘ Small Town Ireland ’ for showing that bigotry towards people who choose to be different in , either sexual inclination or otherwise , is still alive and kicking in your bastion of the caring Catholic Church today , as it was thirty years ago . |
| 5 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 6 | Well , it was thirty years ago ; |
| 7 | This aspect of a head 's management is better understood now than it was thirty years ago . |
| 8 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 10 | In her view , it was bourgeois women who were most oppressed by social definitions of female purity . |
| 11 | It was young men now , older than herself ; she liked them tough and full of talent ; she was not ambitious directly but found that life with the obscure is less interesting . |
| 12 | It was Labour Ministers who told local authorities that there was to be ’ severe restraint in expenditure in the national interest . ’ |
| 13 | It was modern times , but there was no war . |
| 14 | or though you could just like , if you got something for say ten ninety nine and it was fifteen pounds and you got something else as well |
| 15 | It was fifteen feet , twenty feet high . |
| 16 | ELEANOR apart , for the rest of the King 's subjects the Treaty of Montlouis meant , by and large , a return to the status quo as it was fifteen days before the outbreak of war . |
| 17 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |
| 18 | It should be emphasised that this is an extreme version of the sentence-grammarian 's view and one which is found less frequently , in contemporary linguistics , than it was fifteen years ago . |
| 19 | It was fifteen miles further away , in a village the other side of Weatherbury . |
| 20 | It was fifteen miles each way . |
| 21 | so it was better conditions in there . |
| 22 | But it was European interests that systematically removed millions of young people . |
| 23 | Land was given away and there were tax incentives to exploit the area , though increasingly it was large-ranching projects and multinational interests that took more and more land . |
| 24 | It was a shame to wake the boy , but it was twelve hours now since he had eaten . |
| 25 | It was twelve weeks of torment before the player was informed the charges were to be dropped . |
| 26 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 27 | It was religious communities such as the Shakers who developed automation in manufacturing . |
| 28 | It was 17 days since he had last locked the door of his office , turned down the lights , and unscrewed the cap of his walking stick , and heard Dr Tariq and Professor Khan discuss a series of meetings in Europe . |
| 29 | At home , when they were at home they had bells in their home , and erm by pressing the appropriate button , er an electrical charge was sent across these wires , it was private wires to these homes and the bell rang , and as soon as the bell rang all hell broke loose in these , these homes . |
| 30 | It was 1.57 children per woman in 1989 , well below the 2.1 that is needed to prevent the population from eventually declining . |