Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now who was the state 's interests with other states , was it were you the state 's interests in other states or no , I keep getting you wrong . |
| 2 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 3 | It was what the doctors call a false pregnancy , probably brought on by her husband 's sudden death , feelings of guilt . |
| 4 | Ellie was n't at all sure what a peignoir was , but if it was what the woman was wearing , no she most certainly had not . |
| 5 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 6 | I never thought to mention it again , it was what the brother wanted , just one more thing to move . |
| 7 | He said that it did not matter how the £3. 1 million was acquired and that it was what the company did with the money that mattered . |
| 8 | It was what the I think |
| 9 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |
| 10 | It is absolutely clear that the Leader of the House has either no authority or insufficient courage to say whether that promise was categorical or whether it was what the country believes it to have been — evidence of a Prime Minister panicked into making a promise that he has no intention of keeping . |
| 11 | It was what the shearmen in the woollen manufacture , who did not work at home , regarded as usual . |
| 12 | It was what the entire day had been about . |
| 13 | It was what the Press admired as my dedication , though now it seems more like a selfishness allied to ruthlessness , ’ he said , frowning . |
| 14 | But it was what the executive council thought the increase in wages should be not what the members thought . |
| 15 | One corporate lawyer said that he went along with producing false insurance policies without thinking anything of it , ‘ It was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ . |
| 16 | As the corporate lawyer put it , when asked why he went along with producing completely bogus insurance policies as part of the Equity Funding Scandal : ‘ I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 17 | I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 18 | It was something the competitive society logically needed … |
| 19 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 20 | But it was one the er er er er , the village green |
| 21 | The ‘ image ’ of C. S. Lewis , which many were to find rebarbative , was not , as they imagined , stage-managed or rehearsed , but it was none the less odd for that . |
| 22 | While criticized by many on the grounds that it had few ‘ teeth ’ and represented a compromise between the DoE and all other departments ( notably those of Agriculture and of Transport ) , it was none the less a major achievement . |
| 23 | It was none the less a moment of grave concern to unbelievers of any reliable militancy . |
| 24 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 25 | It was well-staged and well-sung ; and even if one had to put up with such seed pearls of wisdom as ‘ Beauty is in a lover 's eyes ’ , it was none the less a serious attempt to deal with the implications of the legend . |
| 26 | It is important to remember that however misguided , selfish or short-sighted this opposition to change may seem , it was none the less sincere . |
| 27 | When it came , there was nothing at all ominous in the reason for Christian 's unexpected visit … but it was none the less a bombshell . |
| 28 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 29 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |