Example sentences of "it [was/were] a [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was a bond between them , closer than the killing itself . |
| 32 | It was a ghostly hand holding a lighted candle , and the luckless man who beheld it knew that it was a portent of his death . |
| 33 | It was a present to your mother from my father , on the day of our wedding . |
| 34 | The whole operation was for Reagan 's sake , as well as the hostages ' ; it was a present for him , preferably one to be delivered by Christmas , or by the State of the Union address in January , or by the elections in November . |
| 35 | It was a present from his mum … hours later Les , 17 , and his 3 mates were dead |
| 36 | ‘ It was a present from my mother . ’ |
| 37 | Then driving to the house in Donegal in her pea-green Polo Fox ( ‘ I did n't choose the colour , it was a present from my daddy ’ ) she admitted , with amusement , she did not have a real idea what Parr did , and did not care a jot . |
| 38 | It was a credit to them all . |
| 39 | It was a credit to everybody and the people of Merseyside who put the finishing touches to everything with their overwhelming support . |
| 40 | IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 41 | Melanie Simmonite says she started 20 years ago … her husband did it so it was a case of you ca n't beat them join them … |
| 42 | it was a case of you stop , let . |
| 43 | It is , it was a case it was a case with me that I was black or white and that 's why that 's why it hit the press like it did . |
| 44 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 45 | I yelled … it came out as a croak only but it was a yell in my mind … |
| 46 | It was a smile for him alone . |
| 47 | Wilkinson was reluctant to get involved in the controversy but countered : ‘ It was a goal from my head . ’ |
| 48 | Nothing much could happen to her on a sunny September afternoon between here and the launderette , and Mrs Barakhda who ran it was a friend of hers , or the nearest Lili had to a friend . |
| 49 | Though I was only sixteen , it was a decision from which I never wavered . |
| 50 | So because it er as I said it was a relief to her i were a relief to us as children because then we were n't living in in terror of him coming home and you know causing the bother . |
| 51 | But it was a relief to me when she left and , I was thankful to discover , it was even more of a relief to you . |
| 52 | with a high curved roof supported by girders forged in a Liverpool ironworks , and marble pillars and floors , ornately carved canopies , shafts of sunlight emphasising its height , and indeed , everything of a cathedral but altars and pews … . it was a relief to me , after such a long trip , to arrive at this station … |
| 53 | I used to talk about being gay to my straight , but enlightened , friends — mostly women ; it was a relief to me and they were perfectly happy to talk about it . |
| 54 | It was a relief to me when he went . ’ |
| 55 | It was a sister-in-law of mine that bought it . |
| 56 | It was a struggle in which the heroic confessor of the faith was understood to be uniquely assisted by the Spirit of God , and more than one account tells of the ‘ victims ’ being granted visions to strengthen them . |
| 57 | It was a position from which the Alliance never recovered . |
| 58 | It was a position from which they were never to recover . |
| 59 | After a moment he added caustically , ‘ However , I presume you 're not going to try and deny that it was a portrait of you ? ’ |
| 60 | She was n't happy , she was suddenly plunged into all this pressure and it was a nightmare for her . |