Example sentences of "it was [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was all part of the celebrations to mark the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of war.Elizabeth O'Reilly reports . |
| 32 | It was all part of an afternoon 's coaching in the art of rugby . |
| 33 | ‘ We had a bad result at Stoke City last Friday night , but it was all part of a learning experience for young players . |
| 34 | But it was all part of the job . |
| 35 | We all thought it was all part of number one . |
| 36 | The following day saw a remarkable change in the weather , the wind had dropped considerably , blue skies , and sunshine reigned supreme and it was all systems go for a cracking airshow . |
| 37 | Dot knew it was all dreams . |
| 38 | And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater . |
| 39 | It was heartfelt and deep , but Theo should not run off with the idea that it was all laughter and light and the cooing of turtle doves . |
| 40 | It was all lies . |
| 41 | Of course it was all lies . |
| 42 | It was all gloom , doom and despondency . |
| 43 | It was all nonsense , of course . |
| 44 | So it was all nonsense , was it ? |
| 45 | It was all nonsense , but it was in the right language and Miles was impressed . |
| 46 | It was all nonsense , of course , Dougal thought ; but the quality of Henry 's belief was beyond dispute and curiously impressive . |
| 47 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 48 | Yes , it was all nonsense he was talking about it ! |
| 49 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 50 | But after that , well , it was all sea breezes . |
| 51 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 52 | Er it was all home security systems . |
| 53 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 54 | They reckon it was all Quigley 's fault . |
| 55 | In the event , Burnley won and it was all sweetness and light . ’ |
| 56 | Like so much that was sacred at Canterbury , it was all hearsay , and all the more violently adhered to on that account . |
| 57 | And I would n't I I heard of a s very sleazy woman er near where I used to live , er I never met her , but it was all hearsay how many abortions she did . |
| 58 | It was all beams , ever so nice . |
| 59 | It was all metals , silicates , carbon derivatives . |
| 60 | Just who did it for them she did n't seem to know , it was all contacts of Gustav 's . |