Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Reaganites , economic policy was the legislative priority ; first came budget cuts and then tax reduction and it was essential that these should be in place within a few months , before the end of the honeymoon period . |
| 2 | ‘ We lacked penetration and it was very hard for Fleck being the lone striker , with five of us in midfield . ’ |
| 3 | He was put in my arms and immediately he stopped crying but it was so strange I did n't feel anything . |
| 4 | From here until half time Leeds played shite and it was very worrying . |
| 5 | It was a long time since she had felt fear and it was not at all exhilarating . |
| 6 | In 1878 he tried vainly to reach Spitsbergen but it was a close season . |
| 7 | And the next day he said think die shock and it was running for at least ten minutes she got ratty and and Steve come out very nasty . |
| 8 | There was a Dylan Thomas in Hopper , not just in his abilities but in his self-destruct mechanism and it was a great pity in many ways that he spent so many years in James Dean 's gloomy black shadow , because he is talented and perhaps even more diverse . |
| 9 | It was the amplifier and not the music which caused concern and it was usual to attach planning conditions to an application of this type , he added . |
| 10 | and I put pasta and it was nice except |
| 11 | Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile . |
| 12 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |
| 13 | The organizations faced uncertainty and it was not clear whether the time when they might need to reduce their labour force would coincide with the date of expiry of a fixed-term contract . |
| 14 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 15 | ‘ I told my teacher and she telephoned Mummy but it was engaged . |
| 16 | I 've like got to last sentence and it was cut , and it was like really lovely of |
| 17 | He expressed sympathy and it was received with complacency . |
| 18 | He tried to give comfort but it was difficult to find words after such a bizarre accident , except to explain what had happened . |
| 19 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 20 | ‘ At that time , the Japanese economy was very bad , we did n't have money and it was a kind of dream that we would be able to spend a couple of years outside Japan . ’ |
| 21 | He said he needed rest but it was very plain |
| 22 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 23 | It was the human element that decided efficiency and it was perhaps in this sphere that training could play an important part . |
| 24 | You may not think of Prestwick Airport as a great landmark in rock n roll history but it was where Elvis Presley made his one and only visit to Britain . |
| 25 | We made love and it was good . |
| 26 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 27 | The CPNI was not instrumental in creating NICRA but it was well represented on its first executive committee : Noel Harris of AUEW TASS , a CPNI member , was the first chairman ; Derek Peters of the CPNI was secretary ; and Betty Sinclair of the Belfast trades council was elected to the committee . |
| 28 | I suppose Michael was quite a superficial person but to me he represented excitement and it was a period I had to go through . |
| 29 | It all took time and it was past midday before we finally got away . |
| 30 | Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day . |