Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was rather like a large belt ; you could probably fasten it about your waist and it would sit snugly over your hips . |
| 32 | It was rather like a Loch Lomond bay and more like freshwater fishing in terms of comfort . |
| 33 | It was rather like a mid-West movie , as pleasant as that . |
| 34 | It was rather like an old-fashioned nationalized industry where all lines led to the Secretary of State . |
| 35 | In fact it was rather like the dark days just before the last election when prime-time television was regularly disturbed by party political broadcasts . |
| 36 | Peter : Yes he has indeed he delivered , he did away with the autocue , he leaned forward , he did n't want a barrier between himself and his adoring party faithful they were adoring it was rather like the last night at the Prom , I can tell you . |
| 37 | it was away during the war for scrap but we or maybe not , maybe they took the works away too |
| 38 | It was away from the heat of Paris , yet close enough to enable the ministers to travel there without difficulty for the twice weekly Council meetings . |
| 39 | They shook hands , but it was clearly on the unspoken understanding that they could still come out fighting . |
| 40 | Whilst AIDS was not well included as an issue in the campaign , it was clearly at the back of every civil servant 's mind as the details of the Clause were worked out . |
| 41 | Although about one fifth of EEC workers were in agriculture in 1958 , it was largely at the insistence of France that the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) came into being . |
| 42 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
| 43 | It was largely under the influence of Barnes that the SCS entered into discussions with the Edmonton Society on amalgamation soon after he was re-elected as president of the SCS in January 1919 . |
| 44 | It was largely by the force of his own personality that Castro took the Cuban people with him along the road of Marxism-Leninism ( although he was also tactically astute — for a long time implementing only the minimum conditions of Marxism , allowing rhetoric to fill the vacuum , and emphasising the glorious and dramatic aspects of Marxism , notably the armed struggle and proletarian internationalism ) . |
| 45 | Conversely , it was theoretically to the advantage of the French kings to have the Plantagenets as feudal inferiors , rather than to expel them from their remaining continental possessions . |
| 46 | ‘ I do n't care what went on at the party unless it was blatantly against the law . |
| 47 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 48 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |
| 49 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 50 | It was evidently during the reign of Harthacnut ( 1040 – 2 ) that a St Omer churchman wrote the untitled Latin work now known as the Encomium Emmae . |
| 51 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
| 52 | Even where informants invoked the ‘ rule ’ of parallel cousin marriage it was mostly as a ‘ second order strategy ’ . |
| 53 | When he did speak , it was mostly of the very distant past , remembering his brothers as boys . |
| 54 | if you were having a girl it was mostly in the front , but er that was n't true really |
| 55 | Beech , there was n't much beech in , it was mostly round the mansion and at the back of the grounds . |
| 56 | As far as the aristocracy were concerned , it did not lead to fundamental changes in the social structure ; where wealth changed hands , it was generally within the existing dominant class . |
| 57 | It was well under a decade ; they 'd still be kids . |
| 58 | Seb knew it was well past the time he and Carrie should have retired to their respective bedrooms , but he found the thought of mentioning bed vaguely embarrassing . |
| 59 | I suspect some have forgotten what Chris Patten said — ‘ It was well worth the cost , ’ just so the Tories could get inflation down . |
| 60 | Here it was well worth the buffeted just for the views . |