Example sentences of "it was [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it was money prizes but they took , they were looking for things to take marks off cos all the other schools doing it were state schools |
| 2 | Oh I thought it was water problems . |
| 3 | Say it was sewage farms that 's |
| 4 | so if you do it say , if , if it was exchange contracts today |
| 5 | Had it have been yesterday it was plum puddings cos they |
| 6 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 7 | It was n't musicians making music , it was computer operators . |
| 8 | du during this during , before the war , it was trolley buses ? |
| 9 | Well , it was starvation years , actually . |
| 10 | As British companies began to feel the pinch , it was ad campaigns which felt the finance director 's scalpel first ( the Saatchi-owned , media-buying organisation , Zenith , which bulk-buys TV slots predicts a real-term fall of 3.5% in revenues over the next year ) . |
| 11 | It was winter sports , for heaven 's sake , not an in-depth seminar on personal relationships ! |
| 12 | ooh , they were n't there alright , I thought they were just out of order cos it was road repairs and a policeman was supposed to be on duty because it was this great big wide Upper Parliament Street , and going across it , if I look at Liverpool |
| 13 | It was holiday snaps of Wyatt with a naked Bea which angered Andrew and eventually brought about the Yorks ' tragicomic separation . |
| 14 | Strangely enough , it was Factory Records who were reported to be the front runners , but these rumours were strongly denied by Factory . |
| 15 | It was Switchboard volunteers who eventually organized the first London public conference on AIDS . |
| 16 | It was royal troops who drove out Poles , Swedes , Turks , and Frenchmen ; it was government forces which kept the serf in his place . |
| 17 | Although the petitioners realised that it was government policies which were responsible for the impoverishment of the masses , the movement did not oppose government , it appealed to it for improvements . |
| 18 | With staffing already cut to the bone , it was union members who would suffer the effects of these new redundancies , which would also be felt by the economy . |
| 19 | Well anyway it was coal tokens |
| 20 | This was due to two reasons : large group sizes make it very difficult , ‘ you ca n't organize 30 kids to do clay very easily ’ ; that the type of training of the staff was all very similar , but that training was not the real problem , it was group sizes and lack of resources . |
| 21 | It was railway workers who were in the vanguard of the protest , worried about job losses and safety , but Middle England was also on the march , concerned that services might suffer , polls indicate that four out of five voters oppose the sell off . |
| 22 | It was pussy willows all back there . |
| 23 | It was guest consignors Messrs Close who paid the 1000gns for the nine-month-old heifer calf Woodhayne Euclase . |
| 24 | It was Prohibition times so I used to go to speakeasies . |
| 25 | I think they were about twelve pounds just for a , just some little things that you can use just like a little seaside pail but the totem pails , totem poles , it was totem pails |
| 26 | First it was Grandad Oaks who dominated his life and then it was Father . |
| 27 | As for whether it was hunt saboteurs or home-going Christmas drunks , the station will make all possible enquiries . |
| 28 | Tramp aha , it was tramp coles they called them , they were ricks you know and you got into and you put up the hay and you tramped round and round you see ? |
| 29 | and erm it was Blood Brothers . |
| 30 | ONCE it was pine cupboards and ethnic rugs , now it is baby clothes and family wear for Storehouse . |