Example sentences of "it was often a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was often a case of deal and be damned . |
| 2 | By our period it was often a subject of obsessive concern , and the masturbator was to become almost the archetypal image of the sex deviant . |
| 3 | By this date , the monastic organization of English bishoprics was becoming an anomaly , and in an increasingly active administrative Church it was often a nuisance . |
| 4 | Hopper — crazy , mixed up , Dean-possessed Dennis — had already carried out a pretty full testing programme on several available substances and it was often a gamble to assess his behavioural pattern : lovable , sexual , violent or zonked out . |
| 5 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 6 | Yet it was often an element in earlier national struggles — in the Low Countries , between the Protestant north and the Catholic south ( where the Spanish Crown ensured , through the Inquisition , that the Catholic faith remained the religion of the loyalists ) . |
| 7 | It was often an effort to afford a length of hemp plus a pair of nailed boots . |