Example sentences of "it was a [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a little grey-haired old lady , propped up on cushions and staring intently at something Meg could n't see . |
| 2 | It was a carefully planned attack by France 's secret service with the full backing of President Francois Mitterand . |
| 3 | Dr Wesnes said it was a well tested drug which only caused Alzheimer type symptoms when injected rather than being taken orally as a travel sickness remedy … |
| 4 | It was a well dressed set and Mr Poynor remarked that costumes were ‘ excellent throughout . ’ |
| 5 | It was a well attended meeting , thanks to all who lent a hand . |
| 6 | Well I 'll tell you a good story about that , to s , to let you see that it was a well beaten track . |
| 7 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 8 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 9 | It was a closely fought battle between North and South in Grade 1 , when the World champions , Field Marshal Montgomery , just edged into victory by 3/4 point over St Laurence O'Toole from Dublin . |
| 10 | From my perspective , it was a clear cut case of abuse . |
| 11 | Behind and all around it was a richly planted park , in which deer grazed . |
| 12 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 13 | It was a simply constructed building of corrugated iron with pine matchboard lining . |
| 14 | It was a finely worked piece of silver and obviously of great value ; but while she admired it and felt honoured to receive it , Sara could not honestly say that she enjoyed having its chain about her neck . |
| 15 | Laura moved round to the side of the kiln — it was a roughly built cube of fire-bricks the colour of pale sand , with a bricked-up Norman door-arch on one side and a narrow throat at the rear which led to a tall , cast-iron stovepipe wired for support to the studio wall and a bough of a late-flowering cherry tree across the yard . |
| 16 | The newspaper was anything but an ‘ independent ’ , ‘ responsible ’ , ‘ oppositional/adversarial ’ force in society ; it was a politically committed and attached organ . |
| 17 | For the Dwarfs it was a much needed respite . |
| 18 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 19 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 20 | Passive avoidance learning , just because it was a precisely timed , one-trial task , seemed to offer that prospect . |
| 21 | This had been made by Dad some time previously , it was a beautifully constructed scaled-down version of the wooden barrows in use at that time . |
| 22 | It was a beautifully judged speech . |
| 23 | It was a greatly respected and slightly feared publication , dealing in hard fact , abrasive as Maggie herself was abrasive . |
| 24 | From time immemorial it was a commonly held belief in Gaelic Scotland that where a disease occurred there would be found growing in the locality of its prevalence a plant which would cure that disease . |
| 25 | It was a commonly held view in colonial days that contrary opinions expressed in the press would mislead Africans , whom many European administrators looked upon as foolish and excitable . |
| 26 | English copies would have been available in Europe and mention of distribution in the new American Colonies has been made , so it was an internationally known work by the latter part of the eighteenth century . |