Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 2 | In part perhaps it was a translation of the Old English ‘ Bretwalda ’ , a title attributed to the high kings of the island from very early days ; in part it may have been direct imitation of Byzantium . |
| 3 | In addition , though the party offered its electorate little it was committed to moral ideas and personal liberation to such an extent that it excited passionate enthusiasms . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ The whole room lit up like daylight only it was red . |
| 5 | Fire-eating perhaps it was ? |
| 6 | Well we went every day on about the mail so it was a passenger service that really started off in nineteen fifty five but we bought maybe in nineteen fifty three or fifty four . |
| 7 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
| 8 | Only late Gallic coinage imitates Massaliote issues ; in the fourth-third centuries B.C. it was distinctly under Macedonian influence . |
| 9 | When we went to that the interview yesterday it was ever so funny because we 're all sat in a row and this girl next door to me was from Cornwall , and this other girl said , where are you from ? |
| 10 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 11 | Twenty-one months later it was still in lockdown . |
| 12 | Eight months later it was announced that Nagy and his colleagues were to be rehabilitated . |
| 13 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 14 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 15 | At an in-service course which she led three months later it was proposed and agreed that a working party should be set up to produce a draft policy for links with parents and the community . |
| 16 | However , a few months later it was officially announced the Orange route had been chosen as part of a £100m plus scheme to dual the A5 across Anglesey . |
| 17 | Five months ago it was tens of thousands , quickly to become millions , of Chinese invoking his name as a symbol of the political reforms which their own rulers would not give them . |
| 18 | Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches . |
| 19 | But that is what six or so months ago it was expected to do . |
| 20 | ‘ A couple of months ago it was , on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 21 | Until about nine months ago it was normal to heap all the blame on his Interior Secretary , James Wan , a born-again Christian who has stuck to the letter of Genesis in his attempts to have the Earth subdued . |
| 22 | Intel Corp , obliquely confirming nagging reports that Pentium chips will be in critically short supply at least until October , now says it will ship only about 100,000 of the chips by the end of the year , where only two months ago it was talking ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of parts this year ; Intel now sees 10,000 Pentiums going out by the end of June , 40,000 in the third quarter , and some 50,000 in fourth . |
| 23 | Whereas a few months ago it was n't tat obvious . |
| 24 | Er , Jim , Birmingham , West er , Midlands er , supporting er , the sectionalization of the union because erm , we were told a few months ago it was passed for nineteen ninety one . |
| 25 | The hay rick well it was That was what I speak about a a a cole Tramp cole where the hay r Hay was the tramp cole . |
| 26 | That thing on her neck well it were n't a bite , cos it 'd have gone by now . |
| 27 | Similarly , with the state lacking means of its own to regulate the conduct of business by its subjects overseas it was convenient to delegate this function to the great trading companies , which also assumed responsibility for general colonial administration . |
| 28 | It was n't the cars there it was the cars turning in that 's stopping him getting out . |
| 29 | That 's right , it was better in the spring then it was |
| 30 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone running to a car then it was driven off at speed , and they did n't seem to care about the traffic |