Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowell Bayles paid $500 for the chance to fly the aircraft and it was completed with only a week to go to the National Air Races at Cleveland . |
| 2 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 3 | It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication . |
| 4 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 5 | Doubt it cos it was convalescing for quite a while . |
| 6 | General de Gaulle , who had re-emerged unto the political scene , opposed the constitution and it was approved by only a minority of the electorate : 36 per cent voted ‘ for ’ , over 31 per cent ‘ against ’ , and 31 per cent abstained . |