Example sentences of "it [was/were] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were in the silence that the blackbirds speak to each other ? |
| 2 | It were in the 1920s and it was a passenger train from Cleethorpes to Doncaster and the driver , well , he was a hard , fast driver and he was n't popular with firemen . |
| 3 | It were in the 1890s . |
| 4 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 5 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
| 6 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 7 | The animal 's diet has to be similar , if not exactly the same as , its diet would be if it were in the wild . |
| 8 | Yeah , so if it were in the dictionary , I mean I know you able to turn to the |
| 9 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 10 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 11 | It was in the course of one such exercise the British engineer Frederick Gisborne decided to span the Atlantic Ocean by submarine cable . |
| 12 | No , dearie , when I say , the basis for a new poetry , I do n't mean the vers libre movement as it was in the year 1912 . ) |
| 13 | It was the fastest hundred in a Test match in England since the heady days of 1981 , and as a gambler 's last throw , it was in the same class as Botham 's 149 . |
| 14 | It was in the context of what Mr Kinnock presented as her increasing isolationism within this changing world that he pressed the charge that she was ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step ’ . |
| 15 | Some were convinced it was in the market again yesterday . |
| 16 | We did try a night cap in a ‘ classical music pub ’ but as it was in the underground of a shopping arcade , and the clientele seemed more interested in chomping through their steak and chips than appreciating Karajan 's version of the Emperor Concerto , we just had the one . |
| 17 | Their distinctive sound grew from adapting rock forms and instruments , and , eventually , it was in the pubs and folk festivals of Britain that they began to achieve some sort of prominence , while back home the discos of Harare pulsated to the real sound of Whitney Houston . |
| 18 | Moreover , control upon those members of the section who are not pulling their weight is often asserted from below , as it was in the mocking manner in which the policeman quoted above reported his colleague 's absence from work due to migraine . |
| 19 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 20 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 21 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 22 | It was in the Transport Workers , above all , that the main battle was taking place , with the Ford dispute leading to another threatened strike by British Oxygen workers , and finally a conclusive dispute amongst the drivers of long-distance lorries and oil tankers . |
| 23 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 24 | It was in the film to be blown apart . |
| 25 | But it was in the air for a second reason also : for one striking feature of the years 1929–31 was that all three parties were deeply divided . |
| 26 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 27 | The problem of servicing debt is already , in practice , less severe than it was in the early and mid 1980s . |
| 28 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |
| 29 | Much more common in tile roofing — as it was in the cheapest form of slated roof — was ‘ open batten ’ construction in which the tiles are hung on battens fixed directly to the top surfaces of the rafters without any intermediate boarding . |
| 30 | What is more , it was in the midst of Beaufort Hunt country and the Prince was hunting two or three times a week during the season . |