Example sentences of "it was a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ladies ' shoes it was a thinner leather and the men 's shoes it was a thicker leather . |
| 2 | When skiing first became something akin to a mass-tourism business , it was a young person 's holiday . |
| 3 | It was a young female golden eagle , and she was going for the carrion he had left . |
| 4 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 5 | You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird . |
| 6 | Sir Emmanuel asked Uncle Ned what it was and he said it was a young cuckoo . |
| 7 | It was a young woman — a girl little older than herself . |
| 8 | It was indeed small , as a species rather than because it was a young animal , but unmistakably a genuine one hundred per cent authentic rhino 's head . |
| 9 | It was a young girl on a bicycle , the feeling of movement captured easily . |
| 10 | It was a young face , surely not past the early thirties , comely , dark , passionate in line and feature , with reddish black hair and thick , straight brows . |
| 11 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 12 | And it was a young fellow who lives up Lane so I felt quite comfortable in saying I did n't think they had any young fellas who lived in Lane . |
| 13 | Also from Booth 's conversation with Dicke it can be concluded that Dicke knew long before World War II that wheat products contained the offending agent ; ‘ It was a young mother 's statement of her coeliac child 's rash improving rapidly if she removed bread from the diet , that alerted his interest , when he was a paediatrician in The Hague in 1936 . ’ |
| 14 | It was a young Sharpe … who has slowed down since ( as players do when they hit 20 ) . |
| 15 | Collingwood felt that it was a young man 's opera and suggested Reggie . |
| 16 | She turned and saw it was a young man quite obviously afflicted by Down 's syndrome who had called her . |
| 17 | and it was a young girl next door , a car |
| 18 | It was a six . |
| 19 | It was a six . |
| 20 | And again it was a six . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a political journal . |
| 22 | ‘ But if it was a political act then it affects Scotland and excites my interest . ’ |
| 23 | The charter that was drawn up represents , in fact , just such a claim : it was a political weapon in the battle for status and funding and is not to be taken simply at face value . |
| 24 | This was , from a rock perspective , an obvious ‘ rip off ’ ( McLaren mixed together African field recordings , New York street and radio noise , studio tricks , and claimed the results as his own ) but , from his own pop art position ( pioneered by the Sex Pistols ) , it was a political gesture , exposing the cultural assumptions of our usual sound standards , raising questions about what music , if any , is ‘ natural ’ . |
| 25 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 26 | " It was a political decision made by the government and not by the Federation , " Bland said . |
| 27 | An attempt by 54 National Assembly deputies to prevent the registration of the MRF , on the grounds that it was a political party founded on ethnic allegiance , failed on Oct. 1 when the Supreme Court upheld the CEC 's decision to register the MRF . |
| 28 | It was a political culture which emphasised the democratic assumption that opinion was not merely of passing interest but an important guide to understanding how people would react to various policies . |
| 29 | For the rebels , the war was a military enterprise with political motives ; for the Republicans , it was a political question , whose resolution necessitated , but did not rest entirely upon , military intervention . |
| 30 | But Mr Hanson , who has a 16,000 signature petition to save the pit , said he was still convinced that it was a political decision . |