Example sentences of "it was the [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes ( it was the phone at the Pizza Hut , Tottenham Court Road ) . |
| 2 | It was the strike at Merseyside . |
| 3 | Maybe it was the opposite at the time . |
| 4 | It was the Princess at her best ; completely natural and giving each child her undivided attention . |
| 5 | ‘ It was the man at the house the day Chris was buried . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 7 | The first regards the essential task of co-ordination between subjects and between levels and it was the Institute at Dar es Salaam which first developed a structure which has served as a useful model elsewhere . |
| 8 | It was the fashion at that time for rich people to have a little black page , dressed up in silks and satins and riding on the step of their carriage . |
| 9 | Before Faraday 's successes it was the action at a distance theory that was progressive . |
| 10 | Rogation derives from the Latin rogare , to ask or beseech , and it was the custom at this time of year to seek God 's blessing on the new spring crops , or in coastal areas upon the fisheries . |
| 11 | It was the custom at that time that when a worker married he was allowed to make himself a chair in the company 's time ; this was called a ‘ marriage chair ’ . |
| 12 | It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide . |
| 13 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 14 | It was the stage at which the 12 member states did a good deal more to clarify their long-term goals . |
| 15 | Hang on the line we 'll lob it all off to you , well done it was the farm at School . |
| 16 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 17 | It was the point at which her mother usually said , ‘ You are only fourteen , ’ — an undeniable truth which Molly decided to save for the endless discussions on the subject which would be bound to occur in the weeks to come . |