Example sentences of "and it [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 2 | But to the north , where the main Himalayan chain should have loomed , the curtain never parted , and it was the same story in the morning . |
| 3 | At an early age he developed a desire for foreign travel and it was the Dutch East Indies which first attracted him . |
| 4 | In her opening round of 67 on Thursday , the American made fours at each of the five long holes , and it was the same par fives which served her well yesterday . |
| 5 | But on political perceptions where there were elements of approval or disapproval media effects were much smaller , and it was the press , rather than television , which had more impact . |
| 6 | Book IX was by far the most thumbed section of Eliot 's Odyssey , and it was the story of the Cyclops that ‘ savage man ’ which he read most attentively . |
| 7 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 8 | It was the Mau Mau conflict itself which forced the government to recognize the need to increase the productivity of the Kikuyu areas , and it was the same conflict which facilitated the means . |
| 9 | And it was the first public result attributable to the second generation at Pininfarina , Pinin 's son Sergio and his brother-in-law , Renzo Carli . ’ |
| 10 | Also , expense was spared by the adoption of a simple square-headed shape in contrast to the original arched profile , and it was the cost consideration which similarly led to the new window sills , mullions and lintels being manufactured in reconstructed stone to match the existing dressings , rather than the natural material . |
| 11 | Within days of arriving they held a press conference , on the understanding that the press would thereafter leave them alone , and it was the most informal such occasion anyone can remember . |
| 12 | And it was the filmmakers ' good fortune that their first creative maturity coincided with Rank 's willingness to give full scope to their talents . |
| 13 | In the event , Milena died practically in Margerete 's arms in 1944 , and it was the Americans who liberated Ravensbruck . |
| 14 | The gang of baddies were originally deer stealers ; and it was The Food programme , discussing the increasing availablity of game in High Street supermarkets , who had pointed out that at one time British prisons held more poachers than all the prisoners in France put together . |
| 15 | Then came the Reverends Brown and Cope , and it was the latter who in 1877 witnessed the radical and excessive restoration of the ancient whitewashed church to produce what from a distance looks almost totally Victorian with its new little lead-covered spire and shingled bell turret . |
| 16 | From what I remember , we went down quite well and it was the beginning of quite an interesting career for the young Mr Jones . ’ |
| 17 | Like the Royal Navy , the RAF sought and found a gap in the Sandys doctrine , and it was the Army 's requirements that again provided the case . |
| 18 | In fact , the government ‘ took on ’ AT&T in the 1970s , and it was the Reagan administration of the 1980s — the villain of your piece — that secured real relief and brought on the phenomenal competition enjoyed today by refusing to accept the cosmetic settlement that had been negotiated by the Carter administration . |
| 19 | This technique has been used to find the amounts of elements such as iron , sodium , potassium , aluminium , calcium , magnesium , lithium and phosphorus in the flint , and it was the concentrations of these elements which were different for different mines . |
| 20 | At this time , it was believed that female genitalia were merely internal versions of the male , with the clitoris being a tiny penis , and it was the greater heat of the male that had expelled his organs . |
| 21 | And it was the Miniature Poodle which caught the eye of well-known judge Jean Lanning , with the Lhasa Apso reserve . |
| 22 | But the original damage was done in the Fifties and it was the product of ignorance and laziness and bloody-mindedness . |
| 23 | And it was the most intricate interweaving of subjects and half-meanings and innuendos and so forth , and it was like something out of a Pirandello play . |
| 24 | Earl reluctantly asked North to bring Coy ‘ into the box ’ , and it was the last one he was brought into . |
| 25 | It was the radical MP , Sir Charles Dilke , who had created the phrase , ‘ Greater Britain ’ , and it was the radical Baptist minister , John Clifford , who later wrote of his Empire tour under the title , ‘ God 's Greater Britain' . |
| 26 | For a long time it looked as if Newcastle were going to leave with the three points they so desperately needed and it was the visitors who drew first blood . |
| 27 | ‘ I went on a submarine trip when I was 16 , and it was the greatest thing I could imagine then to serve my country in a submarine . |
| 28 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 29 | He was ‘ a great Labour man ’ , a non-smoker and non-drinker , an elder of the kirk until the minister mistakenly , suggested he had a hangover — ‘ and it was the last time my grandfather was ever inside a church . |
| 30 | And it was the woman had cast him off ; she knew him well enough already to realise how much that had hurt his pride . |