Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing it were simply words which now meant little , something vague perhaps . |
| 2 | but , I , I forget who it were , it were either Lyn |
| 3 | Well , I heard you say it were either Monday or Tuesday . |
| 4 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 5 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 6 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 7 | It were only quarter past one and I finished at and I felt really |
| 8 | Mind you , I do n't I , I think it were yesterday morning I oh no it were Monday morning . |
| 9 | It was tomorrow night I was talking about . |
| 10 | Though Booth and Rowntree were wealthy industrialists , it was principally considerations of cost which led them to limit their study to the particular areas they did . |
| 11 | . Hopefully it was either sympathy or generosity , but still , they might find you a pair of trousers or a blazer , or even a tie . |
| 12 | It was either Paris or it was the Côte d'Azur . |
| 13 | drink , it was either grapefruit |
| 14 | It was either Nan or GrandPat . |
| 15 | ‘ It was either Keane or our Nigel . |
| 16 | Lucy 's first impression was of the robe that she wore ; it was either silk or satin , she could n't be certain . |
| 17 | It was either recovery or recession , modernising the health service or commercialising it , investing in all children or preserving opportunity for a few , said Mr Kinnock . |
| 18 | I du n no , it was either Clive or Richard I think . |
| 19 | The production lasted well over three hours , and then it was soon time to get ready for the evening performance . |
| 20 | However , it was soon time to leave Glubbdubdrib , and sail to Luggnagg , a much larger island to the south-east of Japan . |
| 21 | At Challow in Oxfordshire , deep floodwater meant it was strictly snails pace only for motorist . |
| 22 | But although we were friends , it was strictly business out there . |
| 23 | It was Grétry who testified from personal experience that it was both distance and the dancers that caused the main problems : |
| 24 | In my view , then , it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham 's . |
| 25 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 26 | It was finally Bob Morrow , one of the older racing correspondents on the Daily Telegraph , who came up with a lead . |
| 27 | I got to the printers with my Boy George piece and it was finally time to say , ‘ Look , this is only a thousand words long and I still have n't got to the interview . |
| 28 | It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon . |
| 29 | It was finally thanks to the generous attitude of the Swiss government that she was able to purchase a small property at Arenenberg near Lake Constance , in the Canton of Thurgau . |
| 30 | In 1990 , it was over £32 billion . |