Example sentences of "it was the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the chance to get some big money on the quick which had swayed him . |
| 2 | Then it was the boy stood on the burning decks . |
| 3 | But I mean it was the story to run that while sh the Queen was with her it was a it was not war erm I mean a , a , a whole part of story like |
| 4 | And presumably whatever it was the GP had give him has had tha , upset that thrombosis again . |
| 5 | The first time that the door opened and spilled yellow light out on to the dark afternoon street , it was the parson making a bid for freedom . |
| 6 | ( It was the publicity given to a case in Egham which led to the setting up of the Arton Wilson Committee . ) |
| 7 | But it was the ability to become a socially responsible landlord which gave him most satisfaction . |
| 8 | Lightning flashed across her vision and she thought it was concussion but it was the pilot putting on his cabin-lights . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , it was the freedom to use protection as a weapon against unemployment with which he was primarily concerned , the decision was a disastrous failure . |
| 10 | It was the trading contacts that he had established in Spain which enabled his firm , after his death , to exploit so efficiently the opportunities afforded in South America after its liberation from Spanish control . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was the waiting getting to her . |
| 12 | It was the way to get on . |
| 13 | It was the chief inspecting officer of railways ( CIOR ) who placed an immediate embargo on single-lead junctions after Bellgrove . |
| 14 | It was the opening shot in a fight that 's going to run and run . |
| 15 | In the non-European world it was the requirement to provide separate facilities for a complex hierarchy of class and race which made many railway stations larger affairs than they need otherwise have been . |
| 16 | for it was the determination to separate State schools from the Church that led , in France , to the establishing of central control over the curriculum , and the employment of teachers by the State as civil servants . |
| 17 | A muffled moon could be glimpsed through its broken deck , a pier long closed to those who once sought to find out what it was the butler saw . |
| 18 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 19 | The Frenchman 's release was going to be a bitter pill to swallow if it was the price to pay for finding Clarion Call . |
| 20 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 21 | I am convinced that it was the course to follow . |
| 22 | The driver 's door was open and kneeling behind it was the man looking through binoculars . |
| 23 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 24 | Bubbling with enthusiasm , Fr Cunningham , 80 , said it was the opportunity to work with children which prompted him to accept the latest offer of as a ‘ first step to retirement ’ . |
| 25 | I felt a slight tap on my right foot , it was the Commando lying next to me . |
| 26 | So it was the bait piled in by J.J. and myself the first night of a season in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | It was the solitude growing around me , growing under me : this I could n't take . |
| 28 | It has now emerged that the fraud was carried out by using the credit to pay back money to International Signal and Control as if it was the customer making stage payments on the contract . |
| 29 | She was told that it was the law to pay the full amount and she must pay it in full , and her answer was that it was the law last year that everyone should pay their own bills , and what happened to them ? |
| 30 | in nineteen eighty six I think it was the company divisionalized and I was promoted to sales and marketing director of the erm , I think it was the developments division , which was , was the retirement housing division |