Example sentences of "a [noun sg] was [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however the ‘ Conscription of Riches ’ was interpreted , the secret of its success as a slogan was that it fused basic socialist ideas about state control and greater equality with patriotic support of the nation at war . |
| 2 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |
| 3 | His explanation of adaptation in a sense was that it occurred as a result , as he said , of the natural selection of variations which were in their origin non-adapted in some sense , random . |
| 4 | According to author Dr Eve Roman , ‘ it made no difference whether a woman worked on a VDU as part of her general day , whether she just used it occasionally or whether her only contact with a VDU was that it happened to be in the same room ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The only reason for the Prime Minister to make a statement was if it concerned a matter of grave constitutional importance . |
| 6 | One of the reasons why he drank a lot was because it made this possible . |