Example sentences of "it was [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was all part of an afternoon 's coaching in the art of rugby . |
| 32 | ‘ We had a bad result at Stoke City last Friday night , but it was all part of a learning experience for young players . |
| 33 | But it was all part of the job . |
| 34 | We all thought it was all part of number one . |
| 35 | And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater . |
| 36 | It was heartfelt and deep , but Theo should not run off with the idea that it was all laughter and light and the cooing of turtle doves . |
| 37 | It was all gloom , doom and despondency . |
| 38 | It was all nonsense , of course . |
| 39 | So it was all nonsense , was it ? |
| 40 | It was all nonsense , but it was in the right language and Miles was impressed . |
| 41 | It was all nonsense , of course , Dougal thought ; but the quality of Henry 's belief was beyond dispute and curiously impressive . |
| 42 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 43 | Yes , it was all nonsense he was talking about it ! |
| 44 | But after that , well , it was all sea breezes . |
| 45 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 46 | Er it was all home security systems . |
| 47 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 48 | In the event , Burnley won and it was all sweetness and light . ’ |
| 49 | Like so much that was sacred at Canterbury , it was all hearsay , and all the more violently adhered to on that account . |
| 50 | And I would n't I I heard of a s very sleazy woman er near where I used to live , er I never met her , but it was all hearsay how many abortions she did . |
| 51 | She 's the fifties or sixties generation , and then it was all slimness , tight dresses . |
| 52 | Whe whether it was involved in , whether there was any travel involved or whether it was all desk bound or anything else you know whether he goes zooming off all over the country or whether , whether there 's a possibility of travel involved or any danger in it , in the job , unlikely but |
| 53 | did it , it was all road transported in them days . |
| 54 | " It was all performance , played for its own sake against a dazzling background of reflecting mirrors … [ with ] little real content . |
| 55 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 56 | If you went down to Pitville Park in Cheltenham today , this was where it was all happening … thousands of children taking part in Playday 92 . |
| 57 | It was all camp . |
| 58 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |
| 59 | And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this . |
| 60 | It was all question of being out on the track at the right moment close to the end of the session when it was drying . |