Example sentences of "it was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was above all the white middle class who benefited from a free health service , earnings-related pensions , and the growth of larger secondary schools . |
| 2 | It was above all grandmothers who came to live with their children in this way : five times as many as grandfathers . |
| 3 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 4 | It was above all his Dickensian capacity to take in social detail as part of a social sense that need not be political that Griffith really passed on to the American motion-picture industry . |
| 5 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 7 | It was above all in response to this mounting agitation over the land , not least among workers whose rural ties were still significant , that the Bolsheviks devoted more and more attention to the land question . |
| 8 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 9 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 10 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 11 | It was above all the smile of dramatic irony , of those who have privileged information . |
| 12 | In nine of the countries , it was above 25 years . |
| 13 | It was above me on the rocks , and then it sprang into the darkness behind me . |
| 14 | They rested secure behind their trade barriers , and it was above all a British initiative that led to the creation of the single European market . |
| 15 | It was above all in the transport of this vital material that the canals came to play a crucial enabling role in the development of industrial Britain . |
| 16 | Here , however , it was above all the labour of unmarried young women as living-in farm servants which was sought . |
| 17 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
| 18 | well there was no weir er there , it was just , it was above that |
| 19 | It was beside me . |
| 20 | Yeah , well it was beside the point because you , you had an appointment did n't you ? |
| 21 | It was across these very waters that the ex-wife of the son of King Frederick the Third of Denmark had ferried raw men and their beasts to Falster and back . |
| 22 | Though promotion from one class to another was possible , it was across a wide gulf as the distinction between classes was held to be the distinction between mechanical and intellectual activity . |
| 23 | Passageways were pierced through the walls of houses in some places , and in others they were supported on props along the faces of warehouses and shops , and it was across one of these — a sturdy bridge of timber which was designed to withstand the weight of carts as well as men — that Burun 's party moved without very much opposition from the revellers , most of whom clearly preferred the breadth of the main streets . |
| 24 | It was across the before I could shout and say come back . |
| 25 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 26 | ‘ It was past time for me to win a big one like this and play an aggressive final round . ’ |
| 27 | By this time it was past 3.30 , the light was fading fast , and the blizzard that the ignored weatherman had warned would sweep the Highlands was whipping into action . |
| 28 | It was past the SELL BY date too . |
| 29 | She glanced at her watch , which was luminous , and saw that it was past teatime . |
| 30 | It was past three o'clock , but the tack room light , besieged with huge crashing moths , was still on . |