Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [was/were] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that . |
| 2 | She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear . |
| 3 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 4 | Leith knew then , when her mother began , ‘ Is n't it exciting ? ’ that she was wasting her time expecting her to agree that it was about time Sebastian got his act together . |
| 5 | Glancing at his watch , Major Tzann noted that it was almost time for the briefing . |
| 6 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 7 | Like , you could n't have pianos or sax because it was n't hardcore . ’ |
| 8 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 9 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 10 | Well she said do n't touch that it was now mine . |
| 11 | I remember a terrific noise in the night , and thinking that a submarine must have got through after all , dashed into Pop 's cabin to be told that it was only coal being poured into the bunkers below decks ! |
| 12 | I I would have put the apostrophe between the l and the s , but erm , I 'd be prepared to , I 'd be persuaded that it was n't crystal clear . |
| 13 | She could only stand and stare spellbound a little when he replied that it was n't smoke , but vapour from the warm stream that ran through the town . |
| 14 | Our manager replied that it was not company policy to divulge personal details of employees ( mad joggers or not ! ) and that if she wanted to take it further , she should write in . |
| 15 | He was in this office a fortnight ago saying that it was about time as his father was getting on and one never knew , et cetera et cetera … |
| 16 | Not only that , it made me wonder if it was not time to give the game another chance . |
| 17 | She glanced at her watch and saw that it was almost midnight . |
| 18 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 19 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 20 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 21 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 22 | Lydia , however , knew that it was not strength , but vulnerability and timorousness , which led to the formation of a carapace . |
| 23 | At first Grainne thought it was that power was stealing over them , and then she thought that it was not power but strength , only that did not seem quite right either . |
| 24 | Were you there when you , ee , you talking about that , there were two mistakes on that one er er doorbell went and it was n't telephone , it should have been the telephone ! |
| 25 | Music , writing and nautch dancing all flourished ; the old military aristocracy complained that it was now sitar and sarangi players , not generals and cavalrymen , who were rewarded with honours and estates . |
| 26 | Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’ |
| 27 | It was also discovered that egg production could be boosted by leaving lights on in the houses all night to fool the hens into thinking that it was still daylight . |
| 28 | ‘ The opinion was also expressed that it was not party policy to come out and support candidates during local elections . |
| 29 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 30 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |