Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind it were towering cliffs and wide stretches of boggy tundra broken up by clumps of grey rocks covered in black , curly lichen . |
| 2 | It were thirty pence when it were , when it was er this fella owned it |
| 3 | The balcony of a gold-stone house was small as a matchbox , the family leaning on it were doll's-house figures watching the world go by . |
| 4 | And at the same time the income divide between the top twenty percent of men and the bottom twenty percent is now greater than it were hundred years ago . |
| 5 | But it w it was thick , it were bloody rank it was . |
| 6 | At a signal from the Reclusiarch the lights dimmed , all but one bright narrow shaft descending aslant from a hole in the centre of the stellar vault as though it were liquid starlight . |
| 7 | The scientist who hangs on to yesterday 's theory as if it were eternal truth is liable to be dumped on the flat earth — where he belongs . |
| 8 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 9 | On it were four names written neatly underneath each other . |
| 10 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 11 | It were nice Monday cos she come round hygiene on time |
| 12 | SSP is straightforward to operate and is paid by you , the employer , as if it were normal pay . |
| 13 | You could n't even see where you had to turn off into street , it were worse Saturday |
| 14 | If it were straight narrative it would be a Giant , but as a graphic novel its market is greatly reduced . |
| 15 | And so it were good propaganda this er this , people were saying , Well they 're prepared to go to Russia and fight the Russians to re re you know release our lads , they 're trying to capture . |
| 16 | Along the road leading to it were many altars and shrines and there are also remains which could belong to a theatre . |
| 17 | But this time it was n't a dream — she was really here , breathing the drifting green atmosphere as if it were ordinary air . |
| 18 | Blanche had drawn the hedgehog-child in a Victorian high chair at a Victorian table ; behind it were dark panes of cupboard glass , before it a huge intruding hand , pointing to its dish . |
| 19 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 20 | was that er , parts of it were pure Hollywood were n't they ? |
| 21 | And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school . |
| 22 | Oh it were all camp . |
| 23 | And director Patrick Garland gives these tender moments ( notably Lockwood West wistfully singing ‘ It Were All Green Hills ’ ) as much emphasis as the noisy production numbers . |
| 24 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 25 | And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house . |
| 26 | do er , it were all wallpaper |
| 27 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 28 | In it were all kinds of animals and birds . |
| 29 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 30 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |