Example sentences of "it be an [noun] [Wh det] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an experience which was to alter his life . |
| 2 | It was an art which was understood to transcend nature through the adherence to the ideal and was praised by influential theoreticians such as Quatremere de Quincy . |
| 3 | It was an issue which was never absent : it marred his day of consecration , and it was the subject of his last letter . |
| 4 | It was an exercise which was fraught with difficulty . |
| 5 | It was an observation which was to emerge again among the germinating ideas and jottings of Darwin 's first notebook on The Transmutation of Species . |
| 6 | However , it was an area which was less familiar than the systems presently operated north and south of the border at present . |