Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [pron] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My police contacts say it 's thought she was the victim of a random attack by a thief . ’ |
| 2 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 3 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 4 | Georgia Griffiths ' drugs charges attracted national attention when it was revealed she was the daughter of a court recorder … and the crown court case had to be moved to Birmingham because the Oxford judge knew her father . |
| 5 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |