Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 2 | They got round this by not telling their husbands until it was too late . |
| 3 | The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him . |
| 4 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 5 | He could hardly believe his eyes and it was then he knew that he was unable to rely on his sensory feelings ( the kinaesthetic sense ) . |
| 6 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 7 | Erm when they tested it they said that one was near to failure anyway and that was what was , been causing his bad heads and it was just by pure coincidence that bloke hitting him , that brought it to light . |
| 8 | But the second milking , and so forth on , perhaps the thir second or third milking they used to get milk , what they called beastlings and it was very often too much for the calves to take , so she got a full bag . |
| 9 | And my mam went to him every day with the nurses oh it was months and months and months until it was completely cleared . |
| 10 | Around this grew a small village of woodcutters and stonemasons ' cottages and the hamlet led its isolated existence for centuries until it was eventually abandoned . |
| 11 | I mean he was just saying this and he was coming out with , you know , stupid words and it was really funny in the lesson , it was brilliant . |
| 12 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 13 | For example , the hard core of the Copernican research programme needed to be augmented by adding numerous epicycles to the initially circular planetary orbits and it was also necessary to change the previously accepted estimate of the distance of the stars from earth . |
| 14 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 15 | So I closed all those books and it was then that I opened up my eyes and looked around me and said , ‘ Now I 'm reading ’ . ’ |
| 16 | In Nana 's opinion this was not only a common occupation which gave a woman vulgar , loud manners but it was also bad for trade . |
| 17 | She looked at me and I thought I saw something stirring in her watery blue eyes but it was just a random current fizzing somewhere . |
| 18 | Some Canadian tinned salmon did reach the shops but it was very expensive . |
| 19 | It was sometimes used for emergencies but it was mainly a hospital for old people . |
| 20 | It is not as if that period was a failure in terms of personal relationships but it was very hard work to build up those relationships . |
| 21 | By comparison with the rest of the world in the sixteenth century , some parts of western Europe might look like well-organized nations but it was still true that the main bond holding countries together was the personal loyalty that a local military leader felt to his sovereign . |
| 22 | It was like it was n't as long as Bedgeys but it was really tight and really you know ? |
| 23 | As he pushed them open , they made a great scraping noise and Endill had to cover his ears because it was so loud . |
| 24 | The statues were probably made of cypress wood ; it was commented in later times that this was the most suitable material for cult images because it was so long-lasting ( Pausanias , VIII ; Theophrastus , Historia Plantarum , V ) . |
| 25 | The treaty banning mining of the Antarctic for at least 50 years has finally been signed , at a ceremony in Madrid , several months after it was originally agreed in April [ see ED no. 46 ] . |
| 26 | He had called the election three months before it was constitutionally due on the basis of favourable opinion polls . |
| 27 | President Francesco Cossiga announced the dissolution of Parliament on Feb. 2 , in preparation for a general election on April 5-6 , approximately two months before it was constitutionally necessary [ for June 1987 general election see pp. 35586-88 ] . |
| 28 | All through this time he hardly had any painkillers as it was very important he did n't feel that he could use his leg before it was strong enough . |
| 29 | Floors , or Fleurs as it was originally known , is situated in the Scottish Borders , halfway between Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 30 | Frey 's attempt to discredit these ‘ simple ’ desires will not work here ; and for the same reasons that it was finally discredited earlier in this chapter . |