Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the daytime it was mostly older people you saw on the streets of Edinburgh , but late at night everyone was young . |
| 2 | So , in the daytime it was safe to be in the town of Zenda . |
| 3 | The sea was calm , the sky was blue and with the sun beating on the tent it was almost too warm to zip up my sleeping-bag . |
| 4 | One day , Mildred was walking along in the park it was very , very hot and she was very , very tired ! |
| 5 | well we can do that we had some lovely spring , that day we went up to the park it was what spring like were n't it ? |
| 6 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |
| 7 | For the remainder it was back to Milford Station where they were probably penned overnight on the extremely wide platforms , before dispatch the next day in newly lime-washed trucks . |
| 8 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 9 | He was one of a family of 15 raised by Newry garage owner Billy Goss and his wife Bridie , and since two of his older brothers played the guitar it was not long before young Kieran was picking out those three main chords himself . |
| 10 | For the Prince it was the beginning of a love affair . |
| 11 | Lucien wondered whether it was a good idea to continue telling his story to the boy , given the direction it was heading in . |
| 12 | During the trial it was revealed Yousefi set up a false bank account in the name of Momen Garawand at the Royal Bank of Scotland , in Darlington . |
| 13 | Since there is no doubt that an appeal is now properly before the Board it was suggested that the question whether the Court of Appeal was right to decline jurisdiction has become academic , and subject to one qualification their Lordships agree . |
| 14 | Nobody saw the blow it was . |
| 15 | I explained to her that , although I could make no promises , since she now felt much more confident about the technique it was quite possible that this session would reveal the cause of her phobia . |
| 16 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 17 | In the afternoon it was the same two Spaniards who led the home team to a whitewash over the visitors . |
| 18 | The environment is no longer believed to be the vote-getter it was in 1983 , when the Labour government came to power . |
| 19 | Warner Bros had once again profitably combined instruction and entertainment but as was so often the case it was the way in which they had used an actor that made the movie work in both respects . |
| 20 | This being the case it was seen as essential to set a financial qualification for the franchise that would give the vote to " decent " farmers and shopkeepers whilst excluding the lower social orders who might use their votes to plunder the public purse for their own advantage . |
| 21 | This restraint was held by the court to be an indirect one and on the facts of the case it was found to be unreasoanble and therefore the plaintiff was not entitled to his pension . |
| 22 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 23 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 24 | Industry has been allowed to operate with no regard to the damage it was causing . |
| 25 | Of the remaining three , George Canning , the future prime minister , was only briefly ambassador in Lisbon in 1814 – 15 , when his political career at home was at a low ebb ; and the two others , Robert Liston and Stratford Canning , represented Britain in Constantinople , a very important post but one in which high social rank was not the advantage it was in the other great capitals . |
| 26 | It 's alright it was n't the vet it was your grandmother . |
| 27 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |
| 28 | and wondering how we can do a job for two thousand four hundred and fifty , when according to the experts in the field it was gon na cost fourteen and a half thousand pounds . |
| 29 | ‘ When I left the field it was a terrible feeling . |
| 30 | The purchaser of Caliban was expressed to be Mr. Perot 's son , Mr. Perot junior ; at one stage during the negotiation of the contract it was suggested that Mr. Perot 's daughters would be the purchasers . |