Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management consultants , P A , were commissioned to review the options for Warren Spring 's future and it was evident from the technical synergies and the fact that we had appropriate accommodation at Culham/Harwell — coupled with our ‘ enthusiastic response ’ — that the merger with AEA was the best way forward for all concerned . |
| 2 | In his view , Baker and the LSG loyally pursued the president 's agenda and it was Reagan himself who decided whether to compromise , and when : ‘ It was Reagan , and Reagan alone , who decided that four fifths of a loaf , especially a loaf that was perhaps too large to begin with , was better than no loaf . ’ |
| 3 | I was learning at a place where we hired the computer 's time and it was cheaper to get a night run . |
| 4 | He knew every inflection of the marquis 's voice and it was n't hard to guess what had happened . |
| 5 | Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose . |
| 6 | I remember many years ago , we had friends who had a fishing boat , er herring drifter , and in Fraserburgh the there 's a young lad going out with them for a night 's fishing and it was a beautiful summer 's night ! |
| 7 | There was certainly a note of concern in my father 's voice but it was overlaid with annoyance , as if I 'd let him down by finding a dead body . |
| 8 | Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber . |
| 9 | They heard a woman 's voice but it was the deep voice of the count that carried to them most of all . |
| 10 | Mr Graham would always take the view that this ‘ dignity ’ was something like a woman 's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it . |
| 11 | Inevitably some retribution followed for the county 's Parliamentarianism but it was modified by the need to maintain good government and social order . |
| 12 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 13 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |