Example sentences of "it [adv] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 2 | I du n no I I got the gist of what Lynne was saying and I was concentrating but maybe I was concentrating too hard because I was getting most of it right was n't I but it |
| 3 | This was the cause of it all was n't it ? |
| 4 | It obviously was n't succeeding too well . |
| 5 | It obviously was n't just a quarrel which got out of hand , or robbery with violence . ’ |
| 6 | It obviously was n't you and me . ’ |
| 7 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 8 | But it obviously was n't . ’ |
| 9 | It obviously was n't important . |
| 10 | Yeah , s s surely the , the point is , we 'd have booked another comedian if it had been possible to book another comedian at that time , which it obviously was n't . |
| 11 | It was the first time she 'd seen him smile and , though it obviously was n't intended to charm , it took her breath away and made her pulses quicken . |
| 12 | It obviously was n't . |
| 13 | It obviously was n't accidental that it worked out that way . |
| 14 | well it perhaps was n't just what he was looking for |
| 15 | We could 've had a two forty video tape , it said , two forty on it and when we put it in were n't it ? . |
| 16 | Just on one of the points er made by Professor Lock erm who was arguing that it it basically was n't possible to include an agricultural land quality criterion er in the exceptions policy because there was so much good land in North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | As in commercial aircraft , going it alone was never a realistic option . |
| 18 | But trading standards officers Peter Pawlowski , David Ravenscroft , Kevin Mitchell and Tony Quigley plus pal David Smith decided it just was not cricket . |
| 19 | It just was not possible . |
| 20 | It just was not rational . |
| 21 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 22 | With over eighty pits closed down , a work-force more than halved in only four years from 171,000 to just 80,000 , the emergence of a second , more conciliatory union , and above all , after the defeat of the National Union of Mineworkers in an historically lengthy strike , it just was n't an argument that held water . |
| 23 | She lost one , you know , and after that it just was n't possible . |
| 24 | It just was n't sunny enough , that 's all . |
| 25 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 26 | ‘ But there were occasions when it just was n't possible to get time off to meet her , especially during vital periods such as haymaking . |
| 27 | All this light spilling on to the driveway , it just was n't like him . |
| 28 | It just was n't true what they said in those commercials . |
| 29 | I was a big Smiths fan at the time , but after a while I found it just was n't raw or hard enough for me . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I guess it just was n't my thing . ’ |