Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it was [adv] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Despite this , Mazzin maintained that it was still a local feud . |
| 2 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 3 | We agreed that it was indeed a fine day — a perfect day . |
| 4 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 5 | When Secretary of State Marshall was cabling the Embassy in Paris that Ho Chi Minh had direct Communist connections — whether or not this was a fact depends upon what one means by ‘ connection ’ — he argued that it was also a fact that colonial empires , in the l9th-century sense , were rapidly becoming a thing of the past . |
| 6 | Critics argued that it was merely an attempt by Ford to purchase market share in the UK and that rationalisation would inevitably cause massive job losses . |
| 7 | The head saw a possible solution in a more flexible points allocation for ancillary assistance than that which was LEA policy , but recognised that it was principally a matter of lack of finance . |
| 8 | I perused the beast and proclaimed that it was indeed a woolly mammoth , of the genus Mammuthus primigenius . |
| 9 | A correspondent knows of one witness to the February 1992 sighting in Mrs Topliff 's house , and this person stated that it was merely a large domestic cat . |
| 10 | This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme . |
| 11 | Baxter 's career at Raith Rovers flourished and it was only a matter of time before he became won of Scotland 's most sought after young stars . |
| 12 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
| 13 | He knew and was on good terms with Keith , and that man emphasised that it was only a temporary arrangement . |
| 14 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 15 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |
| 16 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico said that NAFTA would generate more jobs and better wages for Mexican workers , but warned that it was not a " magical formula " and that the benefits would not come immediately . |
| 17 | Rigorous control procedures established that it was neither an artefact of nutritional compromise nor of preoperative bowel preparatory protocols . |
| 18 | The archaeologist explained that the skeleton 's place in the soil strata and its size meant that it was not a dinosaur . |
| 19 | Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work . |
| 20 | They all looked at the dark square and saw that it was hardly a manhole , more of a childhole . |
| 21 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 22 | After Pearl Harbor Rhee felt that it was simply a question of time before Korea regained her independence and he could assume power . |
| 23 | Other girls had seen him leaving too and Annie felt that it was only a matter of time before her friend was found out . |
| 24 | The court was satisfied that the conference had been conducted in a fair manner and stressed that it was not a judicial process . |
| 25 | The thought came to Alexei with such force and urgency that he knew that it was not a reasoned reaction . |
| 26 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 27 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 28 | More seriously , he thought that it was probably a corrupt version of some such name as Krankovitz or Krankovsky , indicating that one branch of the family had come from eastern Europe . |
| 29 | Luke thought that it was probably a mistake , at this stage , to go on about sonnets . |
| 30 | Jotan 's expression suggested that he thought that it was only a matter of time . |